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My home and studio are in Lincoln, Vermont where I live
with my dear wife Mary in the shadow of Mount Abraham, or as it
was once known, Potato Hill.
Raising four children in the 70's and 80's led me
away from art to teaching, carpentry and being a rural mail carrier.
In 1989, I was finally able to devote myself full-time to my dream
of being an artist. I have exhibited in numerous Vermont galleries
and group shows and won a number of awards for my art.
>> my style
Since focusing on my art full-time, I've used this outlining style.
There has certainly been a steady growth in my understanding of
what I can do with this style and how I can vary it to express different
ideas. There are many reasons why I like this approach to painting.
Here are some of them:
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This style gives my
work a unique look, which makes the paintings
feel very personal.
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The heavy lines create a strong
structure within the paintings, which gives
them a powerful presence.
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The lines can also be used
to organize the structure of the paintings—sometimes dividing
them into two or three parts, such as The Choice; other
times giving many small divisions, such as in The Planets;
at other times creating panels to show a progression of movement
or tell a story.
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The lines allow me to bring
together images from different historic times, as in
In Come the Soldiers, in a way that ties all of these
divergent images together
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Finally, because the lines provide
a framework for each piece, each work can be painted with a
variety of techniques and a mix of two and three-dimensional
treatments.
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In addition, because this outlining style is so personal,
it gives me a strong sense of creating my own world on the canvas.
As the artist, I create the rules—figures appear undersized
or outsized; perspective is loosely followed; three-dimensional
forms mix readily with two-dimensional.
>> my subjects
The iconography I use centers around people because that's my greatest
interest: how people think and feel as individuals, how we interact
with each other intimately and as a society. My paintings reflect
this interest; on the canvas are people, the objects they possess
and the settings in which they live, but put together in unusual
ways to express some personal thought or experience, one which I
believe has resonance in the larger world.
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