Which side are you on, Team Art or Team TV?

It was late on a rainy Sunday morning when the TV was blaring.  The sound was ruining my cozy feeling of being warm and comfortable while I drank a hot cup of coffee. I just wanted to hear the rain blasting against the window with me safe inside. Do you have a TV in...

Painting Like the Tides

The waves come in, the waves go out. I paint it in, I repaint it out. Often people have asked me, “how long did it take to paint that picture?”. I never know the answer. I know approximately how long the painting was on my easel, but determining when a...

“Quartz Wave” Reflections

Here at the ocean it can feel balmy on a gray day. Cloud cover usually warms things up. I can smell that salty scent floating in the air and it sends memories of days that feel just like this one flooding into my head. My mind travels back in time. I could be looking...

If everything is changed, what now?

You feel the full frontal force of nature coming toward you in both of these waves. They are majestic in shape and color. I love how oil paint can be thinned to transparency and layered to achieve the sensation of looking through water. Blend and dab the paint...

Have you seen a whale lately?

Did you see any whales swimming by this summer? It is almost eerie.  I mean we know that they are out there but when we see one breaching the surface it is ASTONISHING. This summer they swam so close to the shore it was surprising and wonderful and alarming all at the...

The First Time Was Horrible

  The first time I got up the nerve to ask about how I might have one of my paintings on the cover of Dan’s Papers the editor told me “we have famous people on our cover”. That was many years ago. I went to the tiny office which was in Bridgehampton at the time...