I grew up only a short distance from my current home in Damariscotta in the small town of Boothbay Harbor.Born to a fashion illustrator and a merchant mariner, and having two grandparents who were artists for The New Yorker magazine, I was exposed to art at an early age. While attending Bowdoin College, I was fortunate to study under the painters Thomas Cornell, N.A., Ann Lofquist, Anne Harris, and Jim Phalen and early on decided to pursue art as a career.
I believe that a painting goes beyond it's depicted image and that quality is reflected as much in the exploration of materials and processes used to make a painting as the style or technique used to paint it. During a year in Seattle, Washington working for the Daniel Smith Art Supply company,I came to understand how oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints were made and how their material composition contributes to each color having very unique characteristics when applied to a canvas in the act of creating a painting.
My painting philosophy is a mixture of traditional and contemporary ideas.I am a great admirer of the techniques of the Old Masters, and try to employ as many traditional methods in the creation of my work as I can.On the other hand, I cite as influences such contemporary masters as Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, and Jamie Wyeth. I have always been enamored with popular culture and it’s associated imagery, and am particularly interested in the seen and unseen effects of our human presence in the natural world.
Maine Artist’s Space, Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME 2001 Meyer Studio Gallery, Portland, ME, 2002 River Arts, Damariscotta, ME, 2009 Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME, 2007
