Portfolio of Works

I was a geology major in college, and have discovered that, perhaps subconsciously, this has crept just a wee bit into my painting subject selection. Primarily in the section of waterfalls and great big bold geologically interesting landscapes as subject matter. So I've added this collection to separate the silt from the gravel.

For decades my parents had a framed poster in their guest bathroom.  I think they got if from someplace like the old Spencer’s shops that acted as most malls’ premier crapatoriums.  It was a typewritten list of various collective nouns for animals, starting with “A Crash of Rhinoceroses” and continuing for some 30 or 40 species (“A Parliament of Owls,” anyone?).  It was the conversation piece of all conversation pieces, even if it did lead to cocktail party guests hopping up and down in the hallway waiting for the previous bathroom user to finish reading the list.

This led me, years ago, to create “An Ostentation of Peacocks,” and to every few months or so add a new one to the collection.  I am fascinated by collective nouns - especially those of animals.  There will be more of these all the time.

Portraits can be the most fun AND the most frustrating things to paint.  There is really no joy comparable to knowing that you "nailed it" and no frustration as challenging as knowing you are only 99% there.  As you can see, when I say Portraits I include homes, pets, automobiles and pretty much anything else in addition to persons.  

This is sort of a catch-all for anything involving a beach, a mountain, a tree, a flower, a leaf, a lake, a blade of grass, you name it.

You'll see a lot of flower arrangements here

How do I decide whether a painting should be under Nature or Landscape and Architecture?  Sometimes I just flip a coin...

Here you will find paintings of scenes inside buildings.  I suspect conversations or interior monologues may be going on...

For several years now, my wife and I have sent personalized Christmas Cards the old fashioned way - by having them printed and sending them Snail Mail.  There is something so traditional about this that I cannot imagine we will ever change.  Our system is simple:  I paint the image and Crystal, a church musician, selects an appropriate hymn text for the message.  To give just one example, in 2016 our card was the reindeer image entitled Wisdom.  Crystal chose O Come O Wisdom from on High (from O Come O Come Emmanuel), selected because the reindeer is a symbol of wisdom in many cultures.  

This collection show a few of the many cards we have sent over the years.