These paintings sometimes begin from a plein-air sketch or from a memory of a place or a garden, but the focus is on color, space and making marks. Almost all have evolved over several abstract versions.
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 8 x 8 x 1.5”. to 48 x 48 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 x 1.5”. Oil on canvas 20 x 20 x 1.5”.
Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20” and 8 x 8” on 1.5” stretcher bars.
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 x 1.5”
A collage of pandemic paintings on the floor in the morning light
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5” Sold
Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 x 1.5”, sold
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5”
Here is a selection of my contemporary impressionist landscape paintings — of slanting fields, an apple orchard, morning fog, inspired by memories of the south of France, an English summer, so-green Vermont, and northern New Mexico.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20. 1.5”
Oil on canvas paper, matted.
Painting 12 x 8”, mat 16 x 12”
Oil on canvas, 8 x 8 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 8 x 8 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x .5”
Feeling nostalgic. Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x .5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5”
Gesture painting in a series of of Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu, New Mexico, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x .5”
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5”
On CR 162 almost to the US Forest Road. Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5” Sold
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on paper, 10 x 10 “ Sold
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5”
Fram a sketch, done in a mistral wind, trying to channel Cezanne. Oil on canvas 20 x 24 x 1.5, Sold.
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5”
oil on canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 x 1.5” sold
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas paper, 12 x 16”
Soft pastel on paper, NFS
Oil stick on paper, 9.5 x 12” Plein-air sketch where the Fauvists were inspired. Sitting on the beach imagining the ghosts of Vlaminck, Matisse, Derain.
Soft pastel on paper, 11 x 9” plein-air sketch
Original fine art oil paintings that are small portraits of flowers and fruit and a joyful celebration of nature’s extravagance.
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5
Oil on canvas, 6 x 6 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 6 x 6 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 6x6, 8x8, 10x10 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 6 x 6 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5:
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5”
Oil on paper, sold
Oil on canvas, sold
Oil on paper, sold
Oil on paper, sold
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10” Sold
Oil on canvas, 8” x 10” x .5” sold
Oil on canvas, 8” x 10” x .5” sold
Northern New Mexico rivers — the Chama and the Santa Fe River, also an acequia.
Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 1.5
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5”
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5”
Trees —in the Vermont woods, on a brook, in a New Mexico field of bright, evening last light. These are all original oil paintings, inspired by my love of the fauvist French painters, known for their crazy use of color.
Oil on canvas, 10” x 10” x 1.5”, sold
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 x .5
Oil on canvas, 10 x 8 x.5”
Oil on canvas, 11” x 14’ x 1.5” Sold
Oil on paper, sold
Oil on canvas, 12" x 10". Sold
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10”, sold
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10” sold
Oil on paper, 13" x 10". Sold.
Oil on canvas, 20 “ x 16” x .5”
Drawing is said to be the enemy of painting, but I do it anyway.
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