- art on canvas – Canvas
- art on paper – Paper
- art on wood panel – Wood-Panel
- Paintings in each album are organized by size.
- Prices are based on size.
- Sold paintings are at the bottom of each album.
There is also an album showing my most recent paintings, latest paintings first,
allowing frequent visitors to go directly to the newest paintings – Recent-Paintings
My art has been in juried shows in Maryland and Virginia, including shows at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria VA and the KYO Gallery also in Alexandria.
Some photos can be seen here – Events
I have been pursuing my dream of creating impressionist abstract art since 2008 when I retired from my everyday job as a computer network administrator. My approach to making a painting is to repeatedly create and partially destroy what is on the canvas, a process which leads to a series of creating problems and solving problems. This has the desired effect of giving the painting a visible history, often partly obscured. I often use different acrylic mediums, sometimes making the paints very fluid – creating numerous layers of washes, and other times making the paints varying thicknesses – creating various textures on the surface of the painting.
I like to begin paintings by loosely covering the surface with several colors, anticipating that much of these first layers will be partially or completely covered up but will still add to the depth of the painting. I proceed to make marks and create areas of acrylic paints and acrylic mediums with numerous tools, including numerous methods of masking and unmasking, all the time reacting to the interaction of the shapes and colors, the lines and edges, from what has gone before and what is developing.
While I like quiet areas, I also want every area of the painting to be interesting to look at. I love the interaction of colors and the interaction of shapes on the canvas. I enjoy the interactions that cause tension in paintings. Tension adds another level of interest, and for me it is essential. I react to these many applications of paint on an intuitive and emotional level, being watchful for both subtle nuances and for the bold and dramatic.
I welcome comments.
You can contact me at – Contact