I am often found outside, en plein air, painting those familiar subjects that we all know but have ceased to notice because we see them every day. With my painter’s eye I am constantly looking for shapes, angles, light effects, and interesting lines that take the landscape beyond the ordinary.

When painting is not possible I open my sketch book and draw: figures, landscape, whatever catches my eye. These sketches are taken into the studio, combined and developed into large oil paintings of the activity I have just witnessed. While reflecting man’s use of space now, often a series of my paintings develop into a community of tangential spaces with a strong sense of the history of human endeavor. I am drawn to the American vernacular architecture and landscape that have been arranged by man’s activity. Although people are seldom included in my plein air paintings, they are often the focus of the paintings created in the studio. I paint quickly with broad strokes with only passing attention to detail.

My subjects are transformed by light and the paintings are expressive, full of high key color, and emotional. I react quickly using large brushes or palette knives. Soft edges outnumber hard; paint is rarely layered and there are few special effects. The result is vivid and striking paintings that appear to be effortlessly created.

Education, workshops and awards
Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Sept., 2000-Dec., 2001
Art Students League, NY, NY, under Kenneth McInoe, Oct., 2006-Feb., 2008
Paris American Academy, under Calum Frazier, Paris France, July, 2007
Grant to study in Paris, Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award , July, 2007
Demonstrating artist, The Wallkill River School, 2006, 2007
Award of Excellence for “Old Blacksmith shop, no. 2”
3rd Annual National Juried Barns & Farms Exhibition, Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery, Kewaunee, WI

Memberships
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Signature Member
New York Plein Air Painters, Signature Member,
Catskill Plein Air Painters, co-founder

All paintings are original and matted in archival quality materials. All paintings are sold matted but unframed unless otherwise noted.

Artist’s pledge: The artist retains the copyright and will not make copies or give permission for exact copies or “prints” to be made.

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