Field with Cedars

A painting like this one that has so much emtpy space in it makes you begin to think about the air. Even in a painting of a fiel of dried grasses, the artist is painting air, the atmostphere that lies over everything an moves in and around things. The air has a temperature and over distances we can even begin to become area of it as a substance.

Kind of Green

q x r inches, acrylic on linen

Little Vertical Flowers

24 x 12 inches, oil on canvas

Duck Pond

12 x 24 inches, oil on panel

Three ducks swimming

q x r inches, oil on canvas

The Little Bridge

watercolor

Cosmic Fish

9 x 12 inches oil on panel

A solitary fish swims through a starry sky.

Spottie Leaping through the Forrest

9 x 12 oil on panel

Sleeping Cat in the still life

16 x 20 oil on canvas

A cat sleeps in a window display of an antique shop.

Group of horses

12 x 24 inches crayon on Canson paper

Letting Sleeping Dogs

q x r inches, oil on canvas

A lazy hound lies in the back yard of a rustic house in leafy summer.

Neighborhood Girl

q x r inches Acrylic on canvas

The neighborhood girl stands on a sidewalk in front of some middle class houses on an unseasonably warm day in the 1940s.

Man Burning Wood

q x r inches crayon on Nideggen pape

A man burning wood joins a series of pictures of isolated individuals in contemplative settings. This scene, a nocturne, remembers the artist's uncle burning leaves after a long afternoon of raking and yard work in autumn twenty years ago. In a dark rural field the lone man stands before a fire as dense white smokes rises up to touch a horizon lit by the setting sun. A post that holds up on end of a vineyard is lit by the fire's rays to reveal a T-shaped cross.

Stream in Winter

q x r inches, crayon drawing on Nideggen paper

A deep cold blue stream in winter under straggled branches dusted with a light snowfall flows into the foreground, creating this view of widening moody blah blah blah.

The Far Away Place

q x r inches, acrylic on canvas

The wide scene of overcast, blanketing sky above large distant hills and panoramic valley prospect comes like a vision out of Thomas Hardy. The landscape, devoid of human activity, is more like a state of mind than an appearance one finds in nature. Like a mood, or a longing it becomes a territory through which one's mind wanders in wool gathering.

Little House

q x r inches, crayon on Nideggen paper

This drawing, made from life, shows the back view of a little house. This kind of rustic scene of a pictoresque, somewhat ramshakle dwelling takes this modern subject and reveals its ties to long swaths of time and of European history. At the left are the remnants of a cottage garden.

Two Children

q x r inches, crayon on paper

A little girl with a large black handbag, like a saint in a medieval panorama, appears twice, once with her back to the spectator and again running towards us. She plays in a park with flowering crepe myrtles. The foreground is divided by car tracks. She wears a bright pink hat and bright white tee shirt. The drawing is a study for a large painting.
This painting is unabashedly dependent upon French Impressionism for its effect. I went at painting this picture fully appreciative of the things that Impressionism teacher one about perception and about movement in a picture. The strokes of paint, the order of noticing things, which becomes translated into a line or a patch of color. This kind of journey through the scene is played out in a way that mirrors the activity of the child. The artist, like this child, has given herself free reign to explore and to delight in rows of flowers, in color and pattern.