Living in Rhode Island I love painting our rural seaside community and every encounter with nature finds its way somehow into my creative expression. I do this mostly with oil paint on linen,canvas or wood panels and, with renewed obsession, watercolor painting intuitively or realistically. Lately, I dwell on the variety of abstract designs I see in nature such as the way water swirls and when sunlight spills diamonds on the surface with patterns rapidly changing spontaneously. Regional native trees and smaller plants are natural sculptures inspiring me to carve marks with brush and pigment instead of hammer and chisel. The thick-and-thin-ness of paint lends another kind of breath-like quality to a canvas or paper surface. Local industries also inspire the artist with movements and shapes unique to each - the figures and tools of fishermen and farmers, gardeners and shoppers, beach walkers and surfers, naturalists, students, tourists, old buildings, towns, and interiors, plus vistas of estuaries and the sea and its contrasts with rocky tumbling coastlines and powerful and intricate tidal revelations. I paint the real - beautiful or not so - any aspect of Contemporary American Realism. Recently I have been painting some national parklands we visit frequently and show at a gallery in Maine. I will include some studies for this rugged and rapidly changing coastline among the ancient woods and exposed granite ledge faces are appealing subjects to paint. I also love exploring abstraction for its meditative quality. I will post new explorations in abstraction among daily works available. I hope you share curiosity and enjoy lively rhythm, line, shape, motion and color - treasures I find exploring this artistic territory! Maybe these marks will reach out that you may enjoy and follow along with me. They bring a musical, jazz-like energy to what hangs on a wall. The colors of paintings sharing wall space present a kind of chatter or even a dance. Maybe you'll consider jazzing up your collection? 

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