Welcome to this web gallery of my original artwork.  Inspired by the rugged beauty of coastal Maine, I create land and seascape oil paintings and soft pastel paintings.  Each medium has its own appeal.  With oil painting, the process of mixing, layering, and glazing hues of different values and temperatures is engaging and rhythmic.  Soft pastel is a medium of particular vibrancy and immediacy.  Almost pure pigment with minimal binder, pastel painting gives artwork a richness of color and stroke that is both characteristic and striking.  By their shape and concentration of pigment, pastel sticks may be used in a linear or painterly manner, or some combination of the two.  Preparing my own surfaces for pastel painting gives me the freedom to vary the texture and tone of the ground.  I often combine media, such as using acrylic or watercolor as an underpainting for a soft pastel work or experimenting with gold metal leaf in combination with oil or soft pastel. 

I am also exploring another artistic interest, that of jewelry design.  I make one of a kind necklaces and earrings with silver, other metals, minerals, beads, crystals, and found objects.  As in my oil and pastel painting practice, each piece is inspired by a palette of nature's hues, shapes, and shades.  I hope  you will visit the Jewelry Gallery on this site.

To see my work, please visit one of these listed galleries or a show I am in.  I hope that at least one of my oil or pastel paintings will stir a memory or your emotions. 

Online purchases of art or jewelry may be made by check or credit card (via Square Inc.).  Shipping can be arranged.

Paintings -  Mast Cove Galleries, Pemaquid Art Gallery, Tidemark Gallery

Jewelry - Kefauver Gallery, River Arts, and Tidemark Gallery

Current and Upcoming Shows

Several of My Paintings From Monhegan Island, September 2015

More to Come This September

Please see my "Books" page

Daniel and His Starry Night Blanket: A Story of Illness and Sibling Love is available through PayPal, online at www.amazon.com, www.maineauthorspublishing.com, as well as brick and mortal stores.  

 Rad Art: A Journey Through Radiation Treatment is available on www.amazon.com, 

www.cancer.org, other web distributors and your local bookstore.

Prints

These painting images are available as limited edition fine art prints through the " Giclée Prints" page.

Teaching

Future soft pastel class and workshop offerings will be posted here. If you are interested in a pastel workshop for your group, whether studio or plein air, please let me know.

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