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common ground

 
Common Ground | 16 x 24 inches | oil on wood panel | 2008 | more paintings >>

A place I have walked and admired
with intricate patterns
and my moods reflected
a combination of warning and optimism
from day to day it makes me dizzy 

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state of the studio

I have some pretty exciting news is that my work is featured in Artful Home retail catalogs this year! Artists can’t ‘buy their way into the catalog, which makes this is a fairly big deal because so few artists work are featured relative to the number of artists on Artfulhome.com. Sales have been moving quite well through Artful Home’s web site, in part, no doubt, to the catalog feature. This also featured prominent web site positioning.

why i paint

“Once something is sketched, it belongs to me and I lovingly arrange it on my painting surface where it is reborn.”

I create paintings about emotional space, shape, color and pattern. With a painterly style, I carefully build up impasto layers, using wet into wet oil paint, and allowing shards of underpainting to show through. Formally, the pieces are about composition, color harmonies, shape, and texture, yet each piece reveals a sensory connection to the landscape around me, and a dynamic interplay between conscious and subconscious thought.