These are bigger paintings, > 30 inches in any direction.
I've really been getting back to larger works in the past couple of years, working quickly in thin layers to start. It still takes a surprising amount of time to stop making little changes. I take more time to look at them now without rushing to finish. I think that patience is making better pieces.
Oil on canvas, 2024, 42" x 72"
Some paintings you just enjoy making from start to finish, and this was one of those for me. I pulled this old photo of my daughter (and her cousins) drinking hot cocoa on a camping trip. While making this piece, I thought of all those special places we visited and the wonder they instilled in our children. The birds are rising in the distance from some far off event – to me this is about the disruptive events in our lives – they keep us moving forward. We cannot stay forever in one moment, even an imagined place.
Oil on canvas, 2024, 36" x 54"
Oil on Canvas, 2024, 40” x 36”
This painting won first prize in the 2024 International "Departures" Show at the Cape Cod Museum of Arts. It is still on display on the lower floor right next to the elevator.
I started with a compositional goal of breaking up the canvas into different segments, then working different patterns in each section – almost like a quilt. That kept me thinking of my mother, a life-long quilter/artist. I had in fact, a figure of an older woman in the foreground for a long time, then one day it just came to me that an owl would be a more symbolic and interesting way of putting her spirit in the piece. She has lead a positive and amazing life, and the cast shadow from the figure is my dread of that life coming to an end.
Oil on Canvas, 2024, 32" x 40"
My brother walking on the Brewster flats with his Dachshunds (my dog Lolita is in the foreground). The sky was nothing like this on the day of our walk, but I think this captures the beauty of that day and that place.
Oil on Canvas, 2023, 32” x 40”
Oil on Canvas, 2023, 43” x 52”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 36” x 48”
Oil on Canvas, 2020, 30” x 38”
Oil on Canvas, 2020, 22” x 38”
Oil on Canvas, 1995, 48” x 52”
This painting was on display at the READYMADE Gallery in Orleans, MA for their "Trouble in Paradise" show in September of 2024.
Oil on Canvas, 1993 with revision in 2018
Oil on Canvas, 1993 with revisions in 2017, 52” x 72”
Oil on Canvas, 1993, 60” x 60”
Oil on Canvas, 1995, Private Collection
Oil on Canvas, 1993, 36” x 48”
Oil on Canvas, 1995, 36” x 42”
These paintings sometimes come from a specific place, or just a collection of memories of different places. The painting can of course only suggest a new place, the result of the process of one person creating a painting.
Oil on Canvas, 2023, 18” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2024, 16" x 20"
Oil on Canvas, 2024, 32" x 36"
Oil on Canvas, 2022, 16” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2022, 12” x 14”
Oil on Canvas, 2021, 18” x 20”
Oil on Canvas, 2020, 16” x 20”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 16” x 16”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 16” x 19”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 14” x 16’
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 14” x 16”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 16” x 20”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 18” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 20” x 30”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 16” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2018, 18” x 20”
Oil on Canvas, 2018, 16” x 20”
Oil on Canvas, 2018
Oil on Canvas, 2018, 10” x 12”
Oil on Canvas, 2017, 14” x 16”, Private Collection
Oil on Canvas, 2017, 10" x 12"
Oil on canvas, 2017, 12" x 10"
Oil on Canvas, 2015, 18” x 20”
Oil on Linen, 2015, 18” x 20”
Oil on canvas, 1994
Oil on canvas, 1993, 16” x 18”, Private Collection
Oil on canvas, 1992, 9" x 10"
Some figure work I did in the early 90s and some more recent paintings that have figures in the landscape.
Oil on Canvas, 2022, 18” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2016
Oil on Canvas, 2024, 18" x 16"
Oil on Canvas, 2018, 16” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2018, 16” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2019. 18” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2020, 14” x 18”
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 16” x 18”
Oil on canvas, 1992.
Figure study done in Paul Celli's classroom at Mass Art.
Oil on canvas, 1993, 14" x 16"
Oil on canvas, 1988. My mother.
Oil on canvas, 1988. This was a promotional piece for my illustration business. My sister Nancy is the model.
Oil on canvas, 1989. My brother. Sorry, there’s a bit of a reflection on the photo…
Oil on Canvas, 1990. My wife Stacey at our kitchen table in Lynn, MA.
Paintings with buildings
Oil on Canvas, 2024, "30" x 40"
Thomaston Harbor, Maine
Oil on Canvas, 2024, 18" x 24"
Oil on Canvas, 2023, 20” x 28”
Oil on Canvas, 2022, 26” x 28” — Private Collection
Oil on Canvas, 2015, 16” x 16” – Private Collection
Oil on canvas, 2017, 10" x 12"
Oil on Canvas, 2016
Oil on canvas, 1990, 18" x 24"
Oil on Canvas, 1990, 18” x 28”, Private Collection
Oil on Canvas, 1990, 18” x 24”, Private Collection
Charcoal Drawings and Watercolors (and one oil wash)
Private Collection
This one is on sale at the Trove Art Gallery & Boutique in Orleans (next to jomama's) for the incredible low price of $200 :)
Oil wash on canvas. 1986
