I am a life long observer of Nature. I am constantly looking at the world and when I see the thing that really speaks to me I wonder, “Can I communicate this transcendent quality with paint?” Can I paint about this subject, this distinctive element that I see, so that the one viewing my work will look and say, “Yes, that is just how it is.”
I try to funnel my vision of Nature through my eyes and hands on to the canvas. My most successful pieces are the ones where I just get out of the way and let it happen.
I paint the western landscape when I visit there, but the ones that I most love to do are right here in Madison County.
Most of my time has been spent doing portrait work, so when I have the chance to do something that really feeds my inner life I take it. Landscape painting is one of those things.
I was the Featured Artist of the 1992 Panoply of the Arts in Huntsville AL and won the People's Choice Award at the first Huntsville Museum of Art Juried Show.
Portrait of a young boy. The boat in the distance served as a floating school as the family travelled and home-schooled the children. What a wonderful experience for a child.
These are plein air paintings from the Goldsmith-Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary, painted in April 2010. They will be exhibited with the others in the Sanctuary Artists show at UA Huntsville.
This is a new painting for the Sanctuary Artists show beginning at UA Huntsville on June 2, 2010.
