WORK

The galleries below document  a body work produced since moving to Connecticut in 2005. Other work, produced since the mid-1970s and not included here, except for the watercolors, was developed and produced in roughy 12-year cycles. Full-sheet pen and ink portraits and watercolor palette studies were done in the 1980s were of friends, colleagues, family, and other professionals that I worked with regularly. Most of the watercolors we’re taken from photographic reference at my local morning coffee hangout where I also sketched daily. In the 1990s I switched back to oil painting producing a series of “Old Master” large-format works based on reference material collected from numerous trips to art museums in Europe and the United States. At the turn of the Millennium, my family and I moved to a rural area of Connecticut where I quickly took an interest in the local farms and gardens and began a series of oil landscape paintings that included tractors, fields and farms and the people who worked there. Then in 2012, I began an ongoing series of large-format highly realistic floral works, based on the Dutch/Italian style, of flowers from my own and/or local gardens. Since September 2023 I have begun a series of  exploratory expressive and (almost) tonal landscapes in oil, based on everyday observation of the local landscape and sky.