+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about his Robert Gerrard work +++++ "As a young artist exploring my style, I attempted to find inspiration from the French Impressionist viewpoint. I created a brush name, "Robert Girrard", that allowed me to create paintings with the carefree abandon of Monet, Renoir, and the other grand masters of the Impressionist style. Impressionism has always seemed to me a most romantic painting style - so emotionally charged, so free. By using the Girrard brush name, I have achieved absolute artistic freedom. This freedom led to a joyful experimentation that resulted in numerous breakthroughs and advances in my artistic techniques and talents. Accomplished in the creation of mood and atmosphere in landscape, the broadened palette I acquired during the Girrard years allowed new dimensions to be employed in how I handled the subtle beauties of the qualities in a broad variety of contexts." ~~Thomas Kinkade