About

You can see and purchase my work at the following galleries:

Arden Gallery, 129 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 www.ardengallery.com.

Powers Gallery, 144 Great Road, Acton, MA 01720 www.powersgallery.com

 

Galerie SoNo, 135 Washington Street, South Norwalk, CT 06854

www.sonogalerie.com   (new show opening Jan 21, 2012)

 

 

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TM8218 Clearing Out 36x36 oil on panel

 

 

Of course water remains a theme in my work. Petrarch understood and said it well.

 

I swim a sea that has no shore or bottom……………………….Petrarch 212

  

I agree with Petrarch.  When I began to paint, I was concerned with learning “how to paint what’s really there.” Over time, I’ve learned that one must go deeper.  What is “out there” leads in every direction, including back to one’s self.

In the ongoing  Water Music Series, I started by painting waves and the sea, but quickly found that the relationship between the movement of water and rhythms in music, especially the music of Philip Glass, haunted me. Some of the paintings are concerned with rhythm, some are more about color – all are about creating harmonious environments.

The Pond Series explores color possibilities and rhythms found in the reflections at local ponds. I try to uncover the spirit of each place, that which is often hidden by the sumptuous vitality of wetland life.  

With the Cosmos Series of oil  (and earlier watercolor) paintings, I let the photographs from the Hubble Telescope inspire my imagination. I started the series with watercolor and colored pencil paintings, executed while I was teaching watercolor classes at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Massachusetts. The new oil on panel cosmos paintings are a continuation of the series, using the techniques developed for the water music paintings. Inevitably, work in one area informs something new.

Stone and granite have been a life-long obsession, whether as intimate close-ups of stones or the broader picture of cliffs, headlands, and quarries. The Stones page offers a glimpse of my studio-made avalanche, while the Lubec and Land and Sea pages offer views (often from the trail) of mountain and ledge. New paintings are posted regularly.

You will also find a new addition to the blog posts - the painting techniques paragraph at the end of many posts. There, you will find specific methods and materials used in the paintings, along with tips and practical information related to the practice of painting.

 

And once a year at Fenway Open Studios, 30 Ipswich Street, Boston MA 02215 (usually the first weekend in November). Information about Fenway Studios at  www.friendsoffenwaystudios.org

 

or, sometimes, at Tripp Street Open Studios  (dates will be posted!)

 

Happily, my work also appears in the new publication 100 Artists of New England by E. Ashley Rooney, available through bookstores.

 

My educational background includes a BA in studio art from Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Further study of the master landscape painters at museums and immersion in nature deepened my sensitivity to paint and the poetics of  place.