Maine Landscapes
My Maine studio provides a home for my point of view of land and sea. Again the works confirm and celebrate my relationship with this beautiful world.
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Portraits
A good portrait must have a physical likeness of the subject about which these characteristics of likeness reflect the subject's internal life. Having said that, the portrait must "work" as a good art piece regardless of subject matter.
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Cityscape Paintings
From views from my Baltimore studio in the Jones Falls Valley the artworks which have emerged are in part a confirmation and celebration of my sense of being where I am.
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Early Seasons of Great Pond Series
This 5 panel panorama series of the Early Seasons of Great Pond follows the Late Seasons series. Here I have also included a Late Summer panel, a nod to acupuncture's 5th season.
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Late Seasons Of Great Pond Series
My 16 piece series of the Late Seasons of Great Pond where my Maine studio is located was inspired by my being profoundly moved by my experience as an acupuncture patient and coming to be with the many seasons and climates within me.
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Other Landscapes
Where ever I travel I am most at home painting and drawing along the way.
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Brown Ink Drawings
The warmth of the brown color; the freshness of working with ink and the exciting challenge of continuing the drawing process no matter what kind of marks happen, is my most immediate connection with discovery.
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Collaborative Pieces
My life as an artist is part of an artistic tradition through time. I learn from the masters - one way is to make visual duets with them.
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Acrylic Box Series
This series sprang out of my recognition that external reality is the contextual container for internal experience. Hence I began using the acrylic box as the vehicle for this concept.
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Encaustic Collage Series
The encaustic collage series furthers the depth of experience that the acrylic box series began by allowing multiple layers using wax from thick impasto to paper thin translucent veils.
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Intergenerational Dialogues
Within a solar etching workshop I attended, I began working with multiple images of many generations of my family in what emerged as preverbal dialogues between them - now made conscious within my imagination.
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