About Me
My background
I am delighted that you have come to this website to view some of my paintings. I wasn’t always a practicing artist. Until retirement, I was an educator. Now that I am retired, however, I paint daily in my studio.
My experience
In my studio, I am always a beginner, even though I have been painting for over 50 years. Honestly, watercolor is a brilliant, poetic, unforgiving and unpredictable medium. So much of the crystallization of a watercolor depends upon the inner harmony of all its component parts. In its harmony, it has to be a simple, personal, and resonating experience about ordinary moments that will transcend time.
My motivation
For me, every studio session is an intensely focused, yet spontaneous dance and private conversation with pigment, water, paper and light. When I infrequently get it right, the individual pigments activate with a life unto themselves; colors fuse with liquid energy; the opulent, often multi-layered, washes and glazes blend serendipitously with a pure boldness; the paper springs from underneath the washes and glazes to delight the eye with a rippling texture, like delightful background merriment; light is radiant, vibrating, powerful, and one can sense its fleeting magic.