I paint human nature. 

  The wind and sea are my neighbors, sometimes waving, silently going about their business, or riled up. Like the social world in which we live, nature presents our strengths, oddities and failures in full display: towers of granite, twisted thickets, crumbling shores, potential underfoot and powerful storms. This confluence of human qualities, attributes, and imagery from Maine is what I paint.

  Using oil paints, my color, composition, and mark selections are made with the intention to emulate a feeling or stimulate a recollection of a place. A walk in the sunshine on a bluff on Orr’s Island, while bombs were dropping on civilians in Ukraine led to my painting, Complexity and Calm, an image of a flowering hedge filled with interlocking brambles and vines reaching for the light against a clear blue sky and sea side vista. The title is reflective of the situation and a desired solution.

  The sea in Casco Bay is amongst the fastest warming bodies of water in the world. Increasingly violent destructive storms, changes in aquaculture and marine life, are altering lives and shores along Maine’s coasts. Subsequent to the winter of 2023/24 I began and continue to create images of wild seas and the effects of ravaging winds. Fantastical landscapes and sometimes almost non-representational paintings are constructed from my imagination while referencing sketches and photos from my sojourns as well as studies drawn in the studio to capture human gestures or portray, mimic manmade devastation.