Member of Oil Painters of America and Ohio Plein Air Society.
I began my formal education receiving my M.F.A. in sculpture in 1980. If the truth be known, it is the one medium that will always be closest to my heart. My work focused on the human form. I found it exhilarating creating portraits and life size figures from a lump of clay. As a result of working three dimensionaly, I developed a strong understanding of form and function, and how important light worked in development of the form. Painting became a natural evolution for me some years later.
There is a common thread for me in what ever medium I have chosen to work. I have an intense love of nature for its beauty, its form and its serenity. The emerging thread in my work is the gentle influence of man. Notice each landscape will reflect some influence of mankind, whether it was the road that took me to the location or the fields men have planted. My respect and passion for the land comes to a personal resolution today in my work.
Matisse is quoted as saying he dreamed of an “art of serenity devoid of depressing or troubling subject matter - like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest.” Please take a few minutes to voyeur in the work. Pull up an old arm chair, find your own serenity and walk away with a deepen respect for the environment and the beauty of a simple country field.
