I've gained a greater appreciation of the technique of representation through the study of his work. He is a virtuoso of genre painting. He has made paintings in styles of many representational masters - Rubin, Velquez, Delacroix, Ingres, Copley, David and Chardin. Last but not lease, the small body of work that Myron Stout produced which really reminded me of my early works when I was painting infinity signs. Shape as symbols in the Jungian Philosophy.
Images have psychological power.
So Richard Bellamy's sensibilities and my own sensibilities met a lot of common ground. I think I have a much less sophisticated sense when it comes to color. I love color and I'm enchanted by original use of it.