ABOUT

Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, I came to Vermont over 3 decades ago. When my daughters left home I moved into a small off -grid cabin where I now live and paint.

Growing up fishing and camping with my family was what continued my childhood interest in drawing. The far shorelines of pine trees and long views across lakes made me want to draw. Later, living on the shore of Lake Superior during college, I began to paint in oils. Most of my work today is still in oils, but I also enjoy working in graphite, acrylic, and ink.

The greatest source of subject matter for my paintings comes from canoe and camping trips in New England, the Far North in Canada, and Alaska. I work in water color, pencil, or ink, while on trips. Bringing a sense of these wild regions back to viewers is the art I pursue.

For the past 40 years I’ve had the pleasure of guiding wilderness trips for a variety of organizations. I find that traveling through the landscape slowly by canoe or on foot develops an attachment to the land that I find essential to creating my artwork.

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