Category: Paintings

Although “The Troupe” original is in a private collection, we offer a giclée print in my print shop.

I have at times found myself on stage as well, and I have painted many sets for this theater as well.

The egg tempera/oil original “Act II” may be seen and purchased at Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland, Maine.

egg and oil emulsion on panel, 2014 later repainted with oils.

egg tempera on panel, 2011

A harvest dance in a vineyard breaths the scent of wine, apples, summer air in this atmospheric oil painting.   It is a gathering of people who are living in this moment of completion, united in their bond with the land and each other.  The feeling of swaying movement of the dancing woman and violin player is such that we feel we can step into their rhythm and dance along with them.  “Wine Festival” is in a private collection, but it is available as a print in our print shop.

This painting was inspired by the rooftop gardens at my gallery in Rockland. A beautiful space, the Muir Gardens. But really that was only a launch of an idea. These sculptures are only ‘real’ within this painting. They all are parts in a story. Players on this stage, if you will, acting out a cycle of a life.

I wanted a composition that was both peaceful and yet entwined the figures so we could see the seriousness of their chat.  Take out either figure and the composition fails, each woman needs the other.  Composition is not just design of plunking things around a canvas.  It should also be adding to the narrative of the whole.

While I feel there are plenty of artists out there who may be able to render with paint better than me, I know one of my strengths is in playing with composition…building an interwoven set of pieces to make the whole.

A large giclee print of this is available here.

*an egg and oil emulsion is related to egg tempera—in fact the egg yolk used in traditional egg tempera is an emulsion.  But here I have used the egg yolk and blended in linseed oil and water…literally threw it all in a blender and mixed the hell out of it.  It makes a great painting medium.  Gives the paint some aspects of working with oils and also dries quickly as egg tempera does.  Fun stuff.  I mixed my palette everyday with the emulsion and powdered pigments.