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About the artist

I have been painting since I was very little. In my teen years I started painting landscapes.

The theme remains the same. I just keep trying to make it clearer and simpler. Often the scenes I paint are very small vignettes that I would pass by most days, but caught in a certain light they come alive. It has been said my paintings are like glimpses of landscapes, images of fleeting moments.

I love both working in the field and in the studio. I find that they feed each other. I use pencil, pastel, watercolor and oils. Switching from one medium to another keeps each fresh and I am able to discover more, carrying over, technique to technique. The medium I choose depends on the location and conditions. If I can get my truck or boat to the painting site I will work plein-air. I always carry pencil and paper with me and often use the sketches to paint in my studio large oils on canvases that would be too awkward to take into the field.

Driving or walking along, what makes me stop and paint is the light, atmosphere, composition and most of all the Stillness. The Stillness of the Earth is something that we all see and have a need to be with. Painting and drawing are ways for me to concentrate on the Stillness and be more aware, centered and energized. My job is to pass it on.

This quote was a favorite of Edward Hopper’s and it resonates with me:

“Look until you become fascinated; trust that you will see something. If you learn to wait, the objects will slowly sink into your consciousness and they will acquire a significance that can be measured in color and feeling…”

-Goethe

Press and Publications

Excerpts from these publications available in PDF format

• Yankee Magazine 1985
• Yankee Magazine 1993
• Springfield Union 1998
• Orion 1999
• Detroit Homes 2004
• Unbearable Uncertainty, an anthology

Select Corporation Collections

• Baystate Medical Center
• BankOne
• Ford World Headquarters
• Hyatt Regency (Detroit)
• Oakwood Health Care Systems
• Macomb DAILY
• Construction Association of Michigan
• Oakhurst Golf Club
• Carhart, Inc.