Dancing Janitor

About The Artist: Kay Ritter

I came to painting relatively late. Twenty years of three-dimensional works and perhaps the arrival of midlife left me longing for a change of subject, medium, interpretive style -- all of it. Though I attended RISD in the late sixties and early seventies, as a painter I am essentially self-taught. I began with pastel and then moved on to oil, did a lot of reading and scrutinized the masters of still life. Most of my heroes are not still life...