I WORK EN PLEIN AIR, OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE… Welcome. I am back to painting again after a sabbatical that included a few pieces done for charitable fund raisers. I am continuing to make small, 6" x 8", landscape oils, but not every day. I am also working on larger pieces. Every time I finish a painting, I will place it here on my website. If you see something you'd like to purchase, email me. Thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new pieces. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter. Sign up for my emails and I will send you an image of each new painting. I love to paint and am happy to share my painting experience with you. Most of my work is impressionistic landscape oils, inspired by the beauty of the Island of Martha's Vineyard where I live.
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“Dinghy Dock”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I have been photographing these dinghies all summer, to study them and to remind me to go back and paint them. Now that summer is over, their ranks have been thinning. All of the ugly inflatable ones have been put away, leaving me the more classic types to paint…
“595 Boat”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I was drawn toward the blue pond skiffs. However, a lot of other things seem to have come along with them…
“Sailing Camp to West Chop”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
While the sunset, one of the ferryboats ventured out of the harbor. The sky glowed as it turned to dark…
“Ferry Past Split Rock”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
With a little help from my friends, I found this lookout from which to paint. I knew the thunderhead was over the mainland. I just was not sure if it would give me a show as the last sunlight warmed the tip of the cloud mass…
“Racing Down Creek”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
During gloomy, overcast days it is sometimes hard to find good subject matter to paint. The light is flat. It should be easy to capture since it does not change much, whereas on a sunny day shadows constantly shift or leave altogether. This was a bit harder as there were rents in the fabric of the clouds, allowing sun and/or blue sky in and out of the landscape…
“Fog at Sunset”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
It was raining when I started out, but stopped when I arrived at the western end of the island. I walked up to the lookout point, set up and started to paint. The breeze was light, but from the direction of the swamps below. The mosquito cloud built around me. I double shirted myself and continued on until dusk. I packed up in haste and raced off to my vehicle. As I climbed in, the heavens let loose and it poured. Still, I would call it a good day…
“Lifeguard, Jaws Beach”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I found this view the other evening when out swimming. While not the same partly cloudy evening with red sky as I first observed, I enjoyed this scene in the cloudless sunset…
“Home from Cuttyhunk”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I was not scouting for a particular view when I started out today. In my van by this beach path watching terns dive for their dinner, I wondered if the fishing would be good. Opening the tail gate to grab my fishing rod, I got my paints out instead. As I began painting, every 15 or 20 minutes another sailboat would come through the passage between the far islands and pose for me…
“Twilight”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I always think of twilight as the beginning of the space of dreams. What did happen. What should have happened. What could happen. What will happen…
“Making Landfall”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
A quiet evening with a few sails returning from the sea…