I switch back and forth between oil painting and watercolor. Oils are rich, juicy, opaque, and forgiving—good for rendering deep colors, rough textures, and a broad range from light to dark. Watercolors are subtler, translucent and fresh, but exacting—often requiring closer inspection to appreciate the careful layering of colors to render a shape or object. Oils are great for large paintings viewed from a distance. Watercolors respond to a more intimate appreciation.

My watercolors have recorded the familiar things in our lives, from a store down the street to the ubiquitous glass-vase-on-a-table, or an arrangement of cooking utensils. They all seem to incorporate shadows, reflections, or visual distortions of some kind—undoubtedly more important to me than the objects themselves.

In my oils, the painting surface has gotten larger and deeper in tone; and my focus has shifted to the visual impact of our natural surroundings—on a large scale or homed in on small detail. The depths and ambiguities of water, the textures of rock, the riot of colors you find when you look around you, these are visual cues that grab my attention. It’s these qualities I attempt to convey on canvas to you.

I invite you to click on watercolors or oils and view some of my paintings.