Russell settled briefly in Italy where he reunited with long-time family friend Joan Silverstein, the author and classical scholar. They soon married, working and traveling throughout Europe. Russell is quite prolific and continues painting in a variety of styles, treating Abstraction, Geometric Topology, improvisational Calligraphy and figurative compositions merely as different expressive modes for his pre-Socratic understanding of a universe both unfathomable and in constant flux. I believe in confusion and above all, unevenness, in those who never find themselves. A painter is lost once he has found himself.
Quantity is much more important than quality.
Paint large pictures, crowded pictures. Scribbles, scrawls errantly reflect only terrifiedly about a past that is nightmarish. Eroticism in all forms is the pervading magnetism of the picture, the sun must bicker with an incessant madness.