I WORK EN PLEIN AIR, OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE… Welcome. I am back to painting again after a sabbatical that included a few pieces done for charitable fund raisers. I am continuing to make small, 6" x 8", landscape oils, but not every day. I am also working on larger pieces. Every time I finish a painting, I will place it here on my website. If you see something you'd like to purchase, email me. Thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new pieces. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter. Sign up for my emails and I will send you an image of each new painting. I love to paint and am happy to share my painting experience with you. Most of my work is impressionistic landscape oils, inspired by the beauty of the Island of Martha's Vineyard where I live.
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“The Old Dairy Barn”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
This was painted the day before yesterday. I didn’t like the flat sunless light in which i created it. So I went back today. The sun came out and made all the difference…
“Slack Tide, Fog”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
There has been quite a bit of fog, lately. Ten minutes before I started this painting, it was sunny with good shadows…
“Up Island Spring”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I found myself at friends’ summer house with this beautiful evening view happening, friends not home, but housepainter’s ladder left against the upstair balcony. What a glorious vista from on high! Thank you friends, and you know who you are!!!
“Clam Point”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
Compared to summer, this is a quiet place in early spring. No boats out on moorings. No paddle boards floating by. With water temperature near 50˚F, it is still too cool for much water activity except for waterfowl and fish and Osprey…
“Beach Cabanas”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
A pleasant day of location scouting lead me to the cabanas near sunset. Since last painting here, earth moving equipment had been building up the beach and dunes for a few years. The seas and winds had removed the sand as the tide line crept up to the decks of the bathing houses, threatening to carry them away. A multi-million dollar effort of moving dredging spoils from a nearby channel widening project replenished beach and dunes. However, the way nature moves sand in and out and away, I don’t expect this area to remain flush for long…
“Perception”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
To say Perception’s bottom paint caught my eye would be an understatement. It took me a few scouting tours to decide what time of day was optimal for painting. Lunches at the nearby Tavern helped the scouting, too…
“Crackatuxet”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
A favorite corner of South Beach. I especially love this collection of last century buildings. This is what the Vineyard will always be to me, small scale, happy, close to the land and ocean. Of course, my vision is incomplete without summer, too, but off season has its own pleasures…
“Menemsha Moon”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
The moon came out while I painted. It was getting brighter as the day was fading into night. Meaning that I had to hurry to paint it in before I couldn’t see to put another stroke down…
“Scallop Boat”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I was in the lee of the wind with 45 mph gusts overhead and farther out from shore. It was not a day to be outside of my van painting however. Just as I was finishing, a thunderhead floated over the lighthouse to my left. It became orange on the sunset side of the anvil shape and deep purple on the eastern side. Moving too fast for me to try to paint it, I can only savor it in my memory…
“Distant Cabanas”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
I went back to the farthest NE corner of Edgartown proper and painted this view looking west. That is State Beach, or, as I’ve always known it, Bend-In-The-Road Beach. I have painted those cabanas from many closer, different angles before, but not from this far away…