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Think of a time when just for a moment you were completely happy. When the pieces of your life fit together and made a wonderful sense. Such intense emotions always have a setting. A painting can hold that place and recall for us for those feelings. I am painting places where I have experienced intense happiness.

My paintings are a contemporary re-imagining of the romantic panoramas of the 19th century American painters of the Hudson River School. These early painters found the New England mountains and coast a springboard to forge a powerful art. The land they painted seemed to them a new

In our time with its ecological degradation, the symbolic value of this Eden seems at once more remote and yet more urgently needed. Wilderness and the meeting of the land and the seas are among the most deeply buried chapters of our common origins. They are portraits of an all but forgotten part of ourselves. These paintings are a tool, a bit of practical magic to help the us reconnect with our natures and our deeper resources.
PRESS
Studio Visit Magazine / January 2014
MICA Juxtapositions / Sept- Oct 2012
Fine Art Connoisseur / June 2012
ARTscene / August 2011
Fine Art Connoisseur / Winter 2010
Art of the Cape and Islands / 2009
American Art Collector / January 2009
Fine Art Connoisseur / March - April, 2008


 

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