Welcome to my new website. It is going to be home of the painting series that I work on. I am an absolute believer in the artistic and creative value of painting in a series. I have been an artist for a long time, mainly working in watercolor, and have been a representational, abstract, impressionistic and design based painter and will do all of those styles for the rest of my artistic life. I don’t believe in the idea that a worthy watercolor must only be transparent but I do love a transparent watercolor.

What I really appreciate is a great painting by a creative artist who did whatever it took to make the painting happen. I find that the painting in one style is limiting and boring so I move around, always looking for the most expressive and creative approach to tell the story I am working on. I have been inspired and affected by the great painters running the gamut from Andrew Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko to William Thon whose art is always true to their creative vision of the world as they perceived or perceive it. I plan to use this website to showcase my current series for a period of months and then replace it with the next series. I will archive all previous series so they can be looked at in the future. I will periodically add new pieces under the new series tab to introduce you to my series of work.

The current series is called the “Creation Series” and it is my interpretation of a minor part of the formation of the early earth. It began in April 2005 with the simple black and white painting called “migration” and evolved to a collection of around 100 watercolor paintings most of which will be shown in the galleries that follow. There were many failures and less than successful pieces along the way but I am happy with the body of work as it is shown in these galleries.  I know I  could paint on this project for the next decade but I am currently working in a new direction and want to move on. I will come back to it when the creative urge strikes me.  I don’t make any absolute attempt to be accurate from a scientific point of view but as my longtime friend and Geologist Paul Hearn says “no one really has any pictures of what it looked like 4 billion years ago so your guess is as good as the next”. I have read many books on the subject of the early earth and have used that reading to direct some of my thinking.  I hope you find this site to be exciting and entertaining. I had a great time working on this work.