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.
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
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
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
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
Purchase the Series: $750
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
Reflections
in a Mexican Mirror
Oil on
Canvas 2005
Size:
24 x 20
The story behind this
painting is long and somewhat weird, so the short version is
that it was created for an art show in a restaurant who's owner
was crazy for Frieda and the theme was supposed to be Mexican
Independence. In the end the owner didn't "get" my theme of
Mexican Independence and I somewhat snottily asked her if she
was looking for paintings of people shooting each other. Never
mind. I had a grand time faking the Talavera vase, painting a
white Chinese export model to suit my budget and painting.
$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
The Trilogy Series $1200
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.
