When I lived in Boston Proper, many years ago, friends and I would escape to Vermont for weekends spent at an old farm along the Mad River. Aside from stark difference of our rural weekend home to our city apartments, it was the clear country air I noticed the most. That sensory memory came back to me while finishing up this piece… “Country Air” 12 x 12 o/c
A buyer once defined my work as “Cordyceps Edward Hopper”, which I kind of liked. While Hopper is a huge influence, his palette was bright but somewhat traditional and true to nature. I prefer applying my own color to the landscape, vs trying to accurately recreate it. “Rosefield” 24 x 24
Sometimes smaller pieces have “study” as part of their name. These pieces are done as complete paintings, but if my intention is to do a larger canvas, based on the smaller original, adding “study” to the title prevents two pieces identically named. This piece will be redone at 48 x 40. “Bayside Cottage (study)” 12 x 12 o/c.
Sometimes, when naming a piece, I often consider the subject, the palette, or some aspect about the landscape. While working on this canvas, the thought of it being a bright piece, of glowing afternoon light, led to the name. “Brightness” 24 x 48 o/c.
Often, dunes find their way into paintings, often as part of a larger composition. In this one, I’ve stripped out everything else, let it be the focus. “Weathered Dune” 30 x 40 o/c
Our section of Cape Cod, Dennisport, may be one of the few remaining towns on the Cape where small summer cottages can be found, particularly on, or within a short walk to, the ocean. Many of these summer places are less than 400 square feet, and date back to the early 1920’s and 30’s. Unlike the enormous architectural marvels built along the Cape’s coastline, these tiny places are symbols of “old” Cape Cod. “Summer Shack” 12 x 12 o/c
This piece started off going in one direction, but took a radical turn somewhere along the way, and ended up being about light and time of day. Starting a piece with little plan for how it will end up is, for me, the only way to work. “Late Day Sun” 24 x 36 o/c.
New piece based on a scene in Grantham, NH. Painted this particular location quite a few times. In each, there’s always something that emerges as the focal point, which makes each piece unique. “Meadows” 24 x 36 o/c
There’s nothing like a warm summer day in the country, with the sweet scent of meadowgrass in the air. This larger piece completed just in time to counter the cold, arctic air closing in on New England. “Greenmont” 60 x 48
Those who live in higher elevations–whether the hills of my part of New Hampshire, or the much taller Green and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire–have incredible, unbostructed sky views, not available to us down here in the valleys. “Upland Dusk” 30″ x 40″ o/c
