Portfolio of Works

'Walking along the ocean and in the parks is one of my past time events.  The sky, ocean, salt marsh, brackish, fresh water, trees and land all present beautiful scenes for me to sketch.  Painting En Plein Air is something I enjoy, as long as there are not too many bugs out.  Those critters get into my paint and self!  If the bugs are out I will make sketches and bring them back to the studio, to paint from the drawings.  The scenes I create can be sea/land and sea/sky scapes filled with brilliant or calming colors.  Another time a close up of the surface of the water or land is equally inspirational and is then created into a painting.

These paintings can be made into Giclee and sized to fit your particular space.  The painting, "Koi Pond" is a 24H "x 36"W   Giclee at $500. plus shipping.  Do email me for a size and price list of your favorites.

The images are chosen for their shape, design and color. Sometime I use a dark background to create a stage where the elements become the actors and the space for one is equally important to the other.  The hues that I use are strong and demanding, not unlike the voices of stage actors.

The compositions are created to bring forth strong emotional reactions and build awareness of your own personal response toward the imagery. The paintings below can be made into Giclee and sized to fit your particular space.  Olives and Bread is a 24"H x 36"W ready to ship Giclee  priced at $500. plus shipping.  Do email me for a size and price list of your favorite art work.

Graphite, Color Pencil, Acrylic

These portraits are commission ideas with a variety of representative age groups and media: graphite, colored pencil and acrylic portraits.

Sizes range from small 12”H x 9”W head portrait, to  3/4 figure acrylic portrait 36”H x 30”W, to mural size portraits.  Portraits  are made to order (commissions), and can be made from real life sittings or from a series of photographs.  

Gift giving single head portrait prices:     (Add $75 for each additional head portrait)

canvas sizes:  

10”h x 8”w = $300

12”h x 9”w  = $350

14”h x 11”w = $425

20”h x 16”w= $600

24”h x 20”w= $750

The process begins with a discussion with the client as to which medium is your preference.  Then we decide on the size of the finished piece.  If you are nearby and available for a sitting, sketches are made and reference photographs are taken.  If you are not nearby, the finished drawing or painting will be made from your available photographs. Also, it is important is for me to know about the person whose portrait  is being made.  That helps me determine the best pose for that person, so that their portrait best exhibits their personality.

With the end of the 20th Century approaching I could not help but think of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer.  I too wanted to make art that reflected the feeling of the contemporary world.  I also did not want to put the viewer into depression but to up lift them with what would occur post Apocalypse.  A few “Good News” paintings!  So I decided that I needed to tell a story in a series of paintings.

During this time Al Gore was the Vice President of the United States and he was very much into conservation.  His ideas and views affected a lot of citizens (including myself), to conserve, be vigilant and take care of our planet and resources.  The series begins with a single painting with a split earth....as we exist on top and a mirror image below of the horrors of our ruining the earth (Home Sweet Home). The next image is one of the collection of junk and stuff we leave to rot everywhere...unfortunately we are worse today with unrecycled plastics, jaming the ocean floors and waterways, killing fish, birds and other animals who eat the plastic.  The creatures think that it is food (Cycle-Recycle).  The third image is one that shows the damage to our atmosphere, water and oxygen making plants, upon a person who now has cataracts, poisoned skin and needs to cover himself with a protective suit.  He holds a piece of newspaper in his hand that says:  “Rip in Ozone Layer Threatening”, which was an actual newspaper headline (Ozone Alert).  The most didactic piece is next, in order for me to portray Albrecht Durer’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, I needed to do research.  So I read that section in the Bible and gave my contemporary interpretation in visual terms.

Humanity is making a mad dash to exit a world of chaos, disease and ravages through the muck and mire of the decaying poisoned planet.  The first Horseman of the Apocalypse arrives on a white horse, dressed in a white equestrian competition outfit.  He brings foreboding, but no one listens and those that do, reject the words.  The second Horseman of the Apocalypse arrives in red, on a motorcycle, ravaging humanity.  The third Horseman arrives in a black helicopter.  The fourth Horseman is in the upper left hand corner.  The S-HE is half female and half male, with the Greek symbols for Alpha and Omega (the beginning and the end), on its forehead.  Hovering to the right of the Fourth Horseman are the seven lanterns.  The Fourth Horseman’s atmospheric hair is extending all around and through humanity, covering every ethnicity on this planet.  It is a grim visual.  Infact, when this was exhibited in Concord, NH a group of visiting Eagle Scouts were profoundly affected by this imagery.  Their leaders and the curator of the exhibit made a point of telling me that these young men became conservationists after seeing the exhibit.

The remaining pieces are meant to be uplifting, about the rebuilding after the “fall” of humanity.  I felt that the best way to show this was to present a table with items on it and to show the positive effects in the surrounding environment.  One such painting is about the re-flourishing of the world’s aviary and their co-existent work with rebuilding the earth.  The other is about Lady Bird Johnson’s book about “Wildflowers Across America”.  Both paintings show that we can and will do everything possible to save our planet.

As it turns out, the year 2000 was not the end of the world.  Twenty years later we can see that the turn of the century visuals were just the images of things to come:  terrorism, prejudice, evilness, sickness with some splashes of kindness and thoughtfulness thrown in to make us want to survive.  Bottom line:  It is up to ourselves.  We have to decide how we want to survive and live together on this planet.  I am betting on humanity becoming more caring toward each-other, so we CAN AND WILL SURVIVE peacefully.