My training as an artist comes from the Impressionist method of building a canvas and utilizes their theories as well. Obviously my aim is not to redo Monet and Pissarro, but to use their ideas and methods to create my own unique vision of the world, hopefully reflecting a contemporary approach to painting which includes  more than a century of art revolutions and upheavals; cubism, abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, surrealism, and so on, all of which go into my brain and come out, hopefully, as something different from the ideals of my predecessors. I am rooted in realism but seek the abstract composition. I am in love with color and try to think in color rather than translate into the names of the tube colors. I am drawn to paint nearly everything I see and experience, and am constantly frustrated by the lack of time, energy, and money, to literally paint everything.

I can't eat Sweetreats, (although I occasionally cheat with a piece of chocolate) because I'm Type II diabetic, so in a moment of weakness I though it would be fun to paint all those lovelies I can't eat. Well, as usual with this series I bit off more than I could chew! MuffinFest is pictured below, and on the easel as I write this is CakeFest.

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$1200 for the series of 3 paintings
 

This is the second of the Primary Series.

This is the third of the Primary Series.

Waiting For The Green Light

Oil on Canvas 2010

Size: 12x 24 (Gallery Wrap)
 

This is a view out the 12th floor window of the John Knox Village hi-rise building, overlooking the Mormon Church, Fletcher Avenue, and the entrance to the University of South Florida. It was a hugely complicated painting that took me many Saturday afternoons to complete. I have a wonderful friend who lives there who asks me to come to help her with oil paint (she is a very accomplished painter without my help). We do have a wonderful time, and one of the great pay-backs are paintings like this one!

$800

Artichokes and Squash

Oil on Canvas 2004

Size: 16 x 20
 

I often use complementary color schemes in my paintings. I learned this from Van Gogh many years ago when I did a once-in-a-lifetime read of Dear Theo. The yellow and purple combination always works.

$500

Colorfest

Oil on Canvas 2002

Size: 18 x 24
 

I love the abstract nature of these paintings. I did not intended there to be a subject; rather they are about shapes and colors.

$500

Colorfest II

Oil on Canvas 2007

Size: 16 x 20
 

Eventually I would like to do a few more Colorfest paintings. They are really fun to do.

$500

Dawn: I (Purple Morning Majesty)

Oil on Canvas 2006

Size: 12 x 12
 

The Dawn Series was done for a show in a local gallery that was called a Square Foot Show. The idea was that you had to buy the canvas from the gallery and create your painting on it. Every painting was exactly the same size. It was a terrific show! These four paintings are among my favorites.

$200

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Dawn II: (Today Will be Hot)

Oil on Canvas 2006

Size: 12 x 12
 

I took this picture one morning as the sun was just coming up in the eastern sky. I am an early morning person and often I can manage to get out with my camera, but sometimes I am still in my pajamas when I do it!

$200

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Dawn III (Gulf Wavelets)

Oil on Canvas 2006

Size: 12 x 12
 

This painting was done in my studio from a photograph I took at Madeira Beach, Florida which is on the Gulf of Mexico side of the state. The beach at sunrise is truly a magical place, filled with both joy and mystery. As a child I was an avid shell collector and I lived for spring vacation and our annual trip to Sanibel Island. I would be on the beach before the sun was up every morning.

$200

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Dawn IV: (I Can See To Texas)

Oil on Canvas 2006

Size:  12 x 12
 

Those pink and purple clouds are so beautiful. Looking out to see I imagine that I can see all the way across the Gulf of Mexico to the Texas coast. Early morning ramblings on the beach inspire strange thoughts and magical hallucinations.

$200

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Apples In A Green Glass Bowl

Oil on Canvas 2003

Size:  16 x 20
You can see I love to use complementary color combinations in my paintings. The red and green complement each other and I adore painting apples. I think it was Cézanne who said that if you can paint an apple you can paint anything. I believe it now!

$400

Fuji Mums and Grapes

Oil on Canvas 2000

Size:  20 x 16
 

I did this painting in 2000, before I moved to Florida. It has always been one of my favorite paintings but evidently the exactly right person has not seen it, because it is still unsold, in spite of being seen by many people in these years. I am on an art website, Fine Art America, and I get a weekly email indicating which paintings were viewed that week, and this one outranks every other one on my page by 10 to 1! Go figure. The higher price is because of a really nice, gold frame.

$600

Flowers in a Purple Pitcher

Oil on Canvas 2003

Size:  24 x 18
 

I used to teach a five-day painting workshop in New England. My method of teaching is to paint with my students, so they can see the process, along with the countless decisions, problems and thought processes that go into a painting. Many of my paintings are class demonstrations; often completed in my studio after class. This is one of those paintings.

$500

Trilogy: Pear Garage

Oil on Canvas 2005

Size:  16 x 20

The inspiration for this series of paintings came from the silly architectural devices that I saw in the window of the Bombay Company at the Mall. I learned that they were for executive golf putting at the office. However, I saw them as props for paintings, and especially for students of drawing looking for a way to learn perspective.

$450

Trilogy: Lemon Gazebo

Oil on Canvas 2005

Size:  16 x 20
 

These paintings seemed to evolve after I finally acquired the Golf Putting Set. Somehow each of the little "buildings" demanded what would go with it, and I had a huge amount of fun doing these three paintings.

$450

Trilogy: Grape Jump

Oil on Canvas 2005

Size:  16 x 20

I laugh every time I see this painting. The image of those grapes jumping off the ramp into the catch bowl at the back seems to me to be hysterically funny. I am not sure that many other people are so moved by it, but as they say "to each is own".

$450

Teapot and Gumdrops

Oil on Canvas 2003

Size:  16 x 20
 

For a time I went to Tampa each week to teach a young woman how to paint. I loved our private sessions, and encouraged her to set up her own still lifes using her own things. It was really fun to paint her stuff!

$500

Grannies

Oil on Canvas 2007

Size:  8 x 10
14 x 16 gold frame
 

Here is the red/green complement with green apples and red cloth. It fairly sizzles with color vibrations!

$250

White Orchids

Oil on Canvas 2001

Size:  36 x 36

Framed in plain black floater style frame

This is one of my favorite paintings, done for my own living room in Florida. It has been widely shown in the Tampa Bay area and is often replaced on the wall by something else while it is on exhibition.

$1200

$175