Sometimes people ask me why I like to paint. The simple answer is that it makes me happy.  It gives me great pleasure!  When I look back on my work over the past many years, I realize, too, that for me, painting is a way of marking moments in time, memories, and recording the way people felt at specific times in their lives. Even a still life captures a definite moment, as do landscapes as the world shifts around us.

For many years I have painted interiors (probably inspired by 40 years in real estate!) and they, too, are temporal; tomorrow the vase of tulips could be moved out of sight. The painting becomes a record.

Most recently I have been painting people, usually as simplified forms in simplified settings. In these paintings I am trying to capture a moment in time, or the passage of time, or to evoke a memory of a particular person. I care less about a detailed resemblance than I do about the reaction you get from the form. I hope you will be moved in some way.

Exhibitions:
Several years at Art in the County
Three at Terra Cello Winer, 2017
Muse at The Picton Armoury, 2019
What’s Left Behind at The Picton Armoury, 2021