Artist Statement

For me, a landscape painter, art organizes life and endows the ordinary with a particular dignity, Each painting begins the moment I wake, look out my window, and make choices about the location and palette for the day. The feel of the weather and the whereabouts of the scene become the work of the painting. From that moment, all else subordinates to the experience of identifying color relationships and interpreting them on canvas.

I work with palette knives and brushes – starting with large swathes of paint. I then carefully work in new colors and textures until a landscape emerges. I love the large open venues of the New England coast and the challenge of reducing these vistas to a six by eight or nine inch format. The painting becomes a tiny gem that can tell you all about the mine and the rock from which it was coaxed.

I feel an obligation to record these wonderful, vanishing, open-spaces before development intrudes upon the their natural beauty. One day these little paintings will testify to the long unspoiled coast, the farms, meadows, marshes, and wetlands of New England. 


Selected Solo and Group Shows

2009

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1992

1986, 1987, 1988

Annual Juried Shows

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