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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“Storm Passes”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I have resisted painting this scene with this barn on many occasions. Not that I don’t love the red of the barn in contrast to the green of the landscape, but, it just is not the style of typical local barn…
“Hot Summer Day”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
This was the first day of summer. The weather obliged. The skies were blue and the temperature went from the 60’s yesterday to the mid 80’s this day. And did I mention that there was a breeze to keep the bugs at bay!…
“Hay to The Barn”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
As one of my friends said, I “have hay fever”. This field, with the barn at the bottom and the hay at the top, was too much for me to drive past more than 3 times today and not stop to paint. The color of the barn doors is just enough to energize all the surrounding greens. The late afternoon sun gives it extra drama as it rakes across the pasture…
“Spring Hay”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I am a sucker for hay. Whenever I see it cut and bailed, or rolled, I just want to paint it, to capture that fleeting moment from field to barn. After the work was done, the farmers left the hay rolls to be collected another day. I had the field to myself and enjoyed the view and air and light until the sun went down…
“Forest Fog”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
At a new location (for me), I followed a path which wandered through a swamp and over a small stream or two. Then this clearing appeared on slightly higher, dryer ground. Emerging from the closeness of the swampy shrubbery walls of the trail to the openness of this space, made me appreciate the larger view this afforded. The tree trunks were like umbrella poles with their developing canopies overhead. A fog lingered at the edge of view, maintaining a surreal quality to the place as a stonewall laced along the back…
“On My Walk”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
I pass this house a few times a week on my winter’s daily walk. It always makes me smile when I come upon it. Sometimes there are otter in the little saltwater estuary and sometimes duck and now a chorus of red wing blackbirds. At low tide the pond is mostly empty and high can fill it to the brim. I won’t try to paint this again until fall as the poison ivy is leafing out and it was up to my waist where I stood…
“Up Island Spring”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I found myself at friends’ summer house with this beautiful evening view happening, friends not home, but housepainter’s ladder left against the upstair balcony. What a glorious vista from on high! Thank you friends, and you know who you are!!!
“Wasque from Left Fork”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
Wasque (way-sque (as in squeek)), off in the distance, is one of the most terrific fishing spots on Chappaquiddick Island. It is the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Sound tides 90 degrees to one another, a turbulent place for waves, fish, bait, boats and fishermen. This view is hardly ever noticed as one drives right past while going to South Beach. The foreground is Herring Creek and the farther body of water is Katama Bay. I only noticed this because I had gotten out of my car and had gone for a bird walk looking for Great Blue Heron in the Creek…
“Beach Cabanas”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
A pleasant day of location scouting lead me to the cabanas near sunset. Since last painting here, earth moving equipment had been building up the beach and dunes for a few years. The seas and winds had removed the sand as the tide line crept up to the decks of the bathing houses, threatening to carry them away. A multi-million dollar effort of moving dredging spoils from a nearby channel widening project replenished beach and dunes. However, the way nature moves sand in and out and away, I don’t expect this area to remain flush for long…
“Perception”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
To say Perception’s bottom paint caught my eye would be an understatement. It took me a few scouting tours to decide what time of day was optimal for painting. Lunches at the nearby Tavern helped the scouting, too…