At Camiso
Oil on Canvas

I removed this painting because I felt that it was "anecdotal." The figure made it look like a snapshot (which it was - I copied a vacation snapshot taken at Camiso when we were visiting Bandelier). I now look for more emotional content in what I paint. At some point, most, if not all of these paintings will be removed - as more mature ones take their place.

The Beach at Sherwin

(preliminary oil sketch on canvas)

Bandelier I

Oil on Canvas (work in progress)

Twilight on the River (after a painting by Margaret Kessler)

Oil on Canvas

What I do

I always thought I was a mis-directed writer - that writing was my greatest talent, and I should have been doing that all my life. But as a child, I was as much involved in drawing and painting as I was in writing. I recently realized that it's to painting that I should return. I made a deliberate decision when I was a teenager not to pursue the creative life - it seemed to me to be emotionally draining - possibly all the emotional ups and downs of being a teenager made me long for a more settled life - at any rate, I never pursued art. Now I get pleasure from the few sucesses I have - for example, if the water actually looks like water, or if the clouds actually look like couds. Yes, there are frustrations, but I am better able to take them in stride.