A Little About Myself Like most artists, I felt it in me from the beginning. Peter Paul Rubens was an early inspiration. At age 10, I painted a giant 14’X7’ reproduction of Rubens’ “Battle of the Amazons” for our family rec room. Then, forty years later, I found myself surrounded by some of Rubens’ most famous original work, his Medici series, in the Musée du Louvre in Paris (pictured above). I never even thought about painting as a career. That would have taken the fun out of it and made it a labor of livelihood, rather than a labor of love. My career was retail buying and store management, until recent retirement. Painting is a passion, maybe even better said, my life’s pleasure. I spend about four hours a day in my studio (converted from a storage room) at home in San Francisco. The rest of the day is occupied by other passions/pleasures: working out at the gym, cooking Asian and Italian foods, and enjoying the company of friends. While I love life in San Francisco and Chicago, I relish international travel and pack the suitcase once or twice a year for far away places, often places with major art museums. “New Oil for Old Masters” Russell Bordash
Russell Andrew Bordash Age: 50 Home: San Francisco, CA , and Chicago, IL, intermittently College: Columbia College, Chicago, BA 1980 Art Medium: Oil on Canvas Art Specialty: Recreations of the Work of Old Masters Most Recent Work  Landing of de’ Medici (Rubens)  Martyrdom of St. Stephen (Rubens) Favorite Artists Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French, 1841-1919 Jean Honore Fragonard, French, 1732-1806 Favorite Art Books Rubens, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, Snoeck Publishers, 2004 The Age of Rubens, Peter C. Sutton, 1993, Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers Renoir, His Life, Art and Letters, Barbara Ehrlich White, 1984, Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers Favorite Museums Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu Musée du Louvre www.louvre.fr Musée d’Orsay www.musée-orsay.fr Ringling Museum of Art www.ringling.orgLanding%20Marie.htmlTriptych.htmlhttp://www.artic.eduhttp://www.louvre.frhttp://www.musee-orsay.frhttp://www.ringling.orgTriptych.htmlshapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5