seeks serious companion

I Would Describe Myself As

I am a software analyst (retired) and I am an artist. I like good food - learning to cook . Like to read, a lot but can only read sometimes. Like to socialize, but can be shy at the wrong time and place. Cherish close friendships and miss a lot of people in my past. Art is the most important thing in my life (excluding people) and it is sometimes a struggle paint at. Music Medeski, Martin & Woods - Mozart - Monk - Zappa - Old Motown - Little Feat - Stones - Debbie Harry - Ron Carter - Jaco Pastorius - Blues - Rock, Alternative music, Edgar Meyer (great bassist), Taj Mahal, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Arvo Part, Saint-Saëns , Bach, Pimus, Train, Lake Street Dive, and more-love music. XPN volunteer. Movies Basquiat - Sliding Doors - Standing in the Shadows of Motown - The Lunch Box - The Grand Budapest Hotel - Amy (Winehouse) too many-independent movies (Ritz Theaters in the city & in NYC). Travels: Japan, England, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Luxemburg, France, Switzerland, Spain, Andorra, Italy, Austria, Philippine Islands, Canada + many states. ============================================================================ MUST have a photo's and I prefer if they were dated... what are your passions in life, what makes you a great partner? What are looking for in a partner? About the one I'm looking for... I'll give a hint of whom I am seeking. A companion could be an artist OR wants to be an artist OR is knowledgeable or interested in Art OR has or will have a very serious need to learn why it is so important to me. If you like dogs and/or cats, that will do. I'd just like to add... The above description is meant with a bit of humor. I simply want to enjoy my love of art and painting with someone open to learning more about my life's work and need to be creative and to continue to learn all I can about my contribution and to understand other painters drive to create something meaningful. Artist = Matisse Pascin VanGogh Leonardo Turner Dagas Rodin Rembrant Hopper Cezanne Diebenkorn Ingre Pollock ++ ================================================================================= About the one I'm looking for... I'll give a hint of what I am seeking. A companion must be an artist OR wants to be an artist OR is knowledgeable or interested in Art OR has or will have a very serious need to learn why it is so important to me. If you like dogs and/or cats, that will do. I have always considered myself as a non-materialistic person, but after moving from a house to a one bedroom condo, packing in my possessions, I am not so sure I can claim that about myself. It is an ideal, but maybe not a perfect reality. I'll have to work on that. Starving artist is not quite apropos (the usual cliché). “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” James Thurber I love to visit NYC for the arts of all kinds. I also visit Baltimore and Washington, D.C. for same reasons. And I love my adopted City of Philadelphia. I came here in the early '70's to attend The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and enjoy living here. Great art; museums, galleries, music venues and wonderful restaurants. Life in this east coast area enables one to live as Henry Miller defines it. “Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.” I hope you find enough here that will prompt you to write & meet. Thanks for reading. Dennis

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