“I consider myself a visual explorer of the effects of light upon the landscape.  With my paints I want to capture the essence of beauty in nature as we experience it in this life, creating with paint the temperamental effects of light on the world around us. This is an enormous challenge as most of my paintings are produced plein air (or outdoors). Being there in person in the face of nature has a way of keeping me honest and growing as a representational artist. When a plein air painting is successful, it will sometimes become the inspiration for a larger studio work. Creating paintings in the studio allows me the time to further develop the ideas which were initially born outdoors. Working indoors also gives me a controlled environment  to bring a painting to a level of finish through many layers of paint and textures which creates a rich depth, mystery and intrigue as in nature.

Some of my inspiration comes from landscape painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. I spend considerable time reading as well as visiting art museums throughout the United States. Being inspired by works that successfully capture the fleeting effects of light, some of my favorite artists are: Sir George Clausen, Isaac Levitan, Ilya Repin, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Frits Thaulow, Claude Monet, Henry O Tanner, Edgar Payne, Clyde Aspevig, and T. Allen Lawson.

Life as a painter is an endless challenge to explore the world visually; my passion is for the one who created it and that my work might bring glory to God.”
 

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Honors and Awards

Selected Exhibitions

Art of the Blue Ridge Realists, Group Exhibit

Banner Elk Plein Air Paint Out & Sale

Carolinas Salon des Refuses

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Artist Workshops Attended

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Current Galley Representation