About the Artist

I am an oil painter from East Boothbay ME. I graduated from Northeast Institute of Industrial Technology (Boston, MA) where I studied architectural drafting and design.  I also hold a BS degree in technical business from New Hampshire College. I am a member of and exhibit at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation. I am also a member of the Plein Painters of Maine mid-coast chapter.

My artwork is based on nature and iconic or architecturally significant buildings. Completed paintings take on the many forms and color of natural scenery and architecture as seen in the daily observations of my environment.  The wellbeing of the body and mind is sustained by nature or products of the earth and I endeavor to express the beauty of the natural world with oil paints to show a personal connection to nature and architecture with art. 

While my painting process is mostly representational of a subject, I am strongly influenced by site observations that may ultimately change color, proportion, and form of the subject.  I desire to bring the outside in by creating the natural occurring beauty of nature and architecture through art.  I occasionally work with pastels, and I also like to decoupage oyster shells but painting oil on canvas is the media I most enjoy.  The luminescence and scent of oil paints is what drives me!