Bio & Statement
The northeast coast of the Atlantic is a beautiful place. The writer's adage write what you know applies to painters, too, and this landscape is my home and the landscape I know well. I have a BFA in painting from BU's College of Fine Arts, where teachers taught, with an old world trade-school approach, the technical skills of a fine artist.
Bruegel, Eaton, Inness, Porter, and Klimt are favorite artists whose art teaches many things: A painting exists on many levels. It depicts light and space with a two dimensional pattern of color shapes, and it expresses ideas and emotions: it is thought made visible. Finding the intersection between these ways of perceiving is my goal.
Sweeps of space set off by curious shapes, light and air connecting everything and the mute profundity of nature all interest me greatly. A good painting contains only the essentials and stays with you like a hummable melody. It makes a mark. I aim for that.
Methods
The smaller studies are painted outside in one session. Larger pieces are done in the studio and take many sessions to complete. They transform over time, as they take on a life of their own.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Goethe
The northeast coast of the Atlantic is a beautiful place. The writer's adage write what you know applies to painters, too, and this landscape is my home and the landscape I know well. I have a BFA in painting from BU's College of Fine Arts, where teachers taught, with an old world trade-school approach, the technical skills of a fine artist.
Bruegel, Eaton, Inness, Porter, and Klimt are favorite artists whose art teaches many things: A painting exists on many levels. It depicts light and space with a two dimensional pattern of color shapes, and it expresses ideas and emotions: it is thought made visible. Finding the intersection between these ways of perceiving is my goal.
Sweeps of space set off by curious shapes, light and air connecting everything and the mute profundity of nature all interest me greatly. A good painting contains only the essentials and stays with you like a hummable melody. It makes a mark. I aim for that.
Methods
The smaller studies are painted outside in one session. Larger pieces are done in the studio and take many sessions to complete. They transform over time, as they take on a life of their own.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Goethe
