Projects
Great Lakes LandscapesAround the world's largest inland lakes, the prairie flora and seasonal atmosphere are both subtle and dramatic.
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Boston Fenway GardensOlmsted's Emerald Necklace, green space around Boston blooms in 500 unique gardens. Lounging is encouraged.
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Gardens and Plants"I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing, that the light is everything, that it is more than the sum of each
flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.” ~ Aldo Leopold |
Photography
The form of a city changes faster, alas, than the human heart. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Why I Paint & Draw
The landscape does a dance, puts on a show and petitions to be painted. I am a passionate observer of the motion of plants and ecosystems: the cluster of the species and the motion of the leaves and water, the sun playing with shadows, the design of the flower, foggy or parched and the reach or flight of the seeds seeking Earth. For people who love a place as I do, these impressions are meant to hold a fond memory.
Woven like a visual poem, painting the kinetic signature of a scene my work explores what we focus on. I use gestural marks, fluid strokes and chimerical layers to capture the inherent motion in a place. A focal point is usually distributed as a riddle on where to rest your gaze, reflecting the transient nature of the plants between a detail observation and a defocused meditation.
Pushing carbon dust, graphite, ink and pulling oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel and pixels, I move between digital and analog. These pieces are created in the wake of an exciting thirty-year career in network TV, corporate audio visual animation, design and art direction of interactive CD ROM and DVD productions, film, video, interface design and planning of travel / navigation software for Rand McNally and mobile phone strategy for Motorola. I am happy to be back with my love of fine art painting. The hierarchy of information: from my eyes through my brush and my experience in gestural research and situational observation is an evolution. How a place seems to move at a time of day, a time of year, a time of life contemplating physics and energy, history, spirituality and nature!
Woven like a visual poem, painting the kinetic signature of a scene my work explores what we focus on. I use gestural marks, fluid strokes and chimerical layers to capture the inherent motion in a place. A focal point is usually distributed as a riddle on where to rest your gaze, reflecting the transient nature of the plants between a detail observation and a defocused meditation.
Pushing carbon dust, graphite, ink and pulling oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel and pixels, I move between digital and analog. These pieces are created in the wake of an exciting thirty-year career in network TV, corporate audio visual animation, design and art direction of interactive CD ROM and DVD productions, film, video, interface design and planning of travel / navigation software for Rand McNally and mobile phone strategy for Motorola. I am happy to be back with my love of fine art painting. The hierarchy of information: from my eyes through my brush and my experience in gestural research and situational observation is an evolution. How a place seems to move at a time of day, a time of year, a time of life contemplating physics and energy, history, spirituality and nature!
