Paintings from the Cape: Spanning time at the beaches, hollows and marshes.

I made art from an early age. I grew up in Maryland, in the country on a creek where my wandering in nature started. I like to find the image as I paint. It has always been an exploration for me. Is it good? I don’t know. Is it working? I might know that.

I can see the formal components of the paintings. But technique is harder to define, mostly layers that build over time leaving traces of pervious images and decisions. The real work happens when I’m removing and rearranging the surface in an effort to cover up a mistake to find something new and that clicks. All of which is hugely subjective.

I take the biggest risks when I don’t care about making the painting work. A painting may seem finished at one point in time, but not in another. Really, there are more questions than answers as time passes that get to the finished painting. It is a journey and comes from my restlessness.

I will be continuing to try to perfect or find the paintings, and push them into new meanings, or just let them fall there. That is what I do. I apply paint to the surface.

Some who I pay homage to are the Fauves, Arthur Dove, Per Kirkeby, Joan Snyder, Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, modernist painting, many more.

I am greatly honored and appreciative to present my work at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Cape Cod, a place I have visited for most of my life, (starting at age 12! ), and love dearly.

Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA, Painting

Pratt Institute, MFA, Printmaking

Residencies:

Truro Center for the Arts

Vermont Studio Center

Oct, ‘22