Welcome to my art site. For my Gallery, click on Watercolors, and Oils and Other Media at top of page.

                                           Artistic Vision:

Art is a bridge from the artist to the viewer extending through time and space, a glimpse of eternity, as it is and was. Art is imagination, emanating out of the artist's heart and mind, rather than what is seen literally. It is feeling made visible, rendering dreams and images from an unseen world.

I paint what I feel and reach out to the viewer with a story, an impression, an image, a memory, or an experience. My goal is to depict the beauty and mystery of the subject, which speaks to me in special ways. I respond back by painting it.

I love to paint, and my subjects come from a variety of sources.  I paint landscapes, still life, florals, animals and figures, both in the studio and plein air. Color fascinates me and I love working with it. I use watercolors, oils, acrylics, pastel and colored pencil, with a rich and varied palette, because color is limitless. There is no color you can't use.  I especially love watercolor, which is a living, fluid medium.  Color, form, light, shadow and composition are brought together in a unified whole.

Art is an ongoing, lifelong process.  As a child, I always drew and painted, and carried a box of crayons  with me wherever I went. I worked in pastel from the age of seven. I did my first serious painting at fifteen. I hope you enjoy my work.                                                       

                                                     

                                                         "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

                                                                                                                                   ~Paul Cezanne                                       

                                                                  

                                                                        " He who sees beautifully and reveals beautifully does so

                                                                     less by virtue of any special eye or hand and more by virtue of

                                                                    an inner light and fire.

                                                                     The highest aspiration of the creative artist should be to reveal

                                                                     those extensive emotions and insights which endure within him."

                                                

                                                                                                                             ~Richard Guggenheimer

                                                           

                

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                       

                                                                                      

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