Perfect Match

When the right painting finds the perfect space, the entire room takes on a magical quality. It’s not something that you intellectualize or deliberate about. It is obvious when it happens. When the right combination occurs there is a vivid emotional reaction....

Color First

  I’m beginning to understand and clarify why after painting traditionally for so long, I’m now motivated to paint abstractly. In abstraction, I find the opportunity to boil down all the elements I really care about in painting. It  always starts with...

Beach Magazine

Hi Everyone! Summer has started at a quick pace so we all need a spot to take a moment and reset our our pace, I know I do. I wanted to share one of my tranquil oil paintings that was featured in the Memorial Day issue of Beach Magazine.  This is truly one of my...

The View Up and Out

I’ve observed it so many times, the full moon just hanging in the atmosphere blazing brightly. The science we learned in school told us that the moon is 238,900 miles away.  We are told that man actually went there and walked on the surface. We’ve been...

Where Are We?

Here is the other painting that is included in Paton Miller’s East End Collected 5 at the Southampton Arts Center  April 20-June 9. It has been interesting to come out about my passion for creating this series of Abstract Oil Paintings. Most people know my...

Capturing Colored Light

  Observing changes of color in the sea and sky has lead me to explore a series of geometric abstract oil paintings. I’ve watched vaporous veils of color change with the amount of humidity in the air and observed how color is nuanced by the sun’s...