A true work of art is but a shadow or divine perfection Michelangelo
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Welcome to my "Galleries
Included on this web site are a few of my older artistic
"accomplishments" coupled with my latest.
The above quote bordering the word "accomplishments"
indicate that the challenges are always greater when
re-entering the fine arts arena after a long hiatus.
Now after over forty plus years away from brushes and
colors, it has taken longer than I had anticipated in finding
the right groove in wielding a palette.
I am currently greatly enamoured with landscape painting.
Painting outdoors has been a real challenge to quickly lay
in a landscape. Getting a painting blocked in quickly before
the light moves to a new location in the sky seems to be
the key.
Artists who have influenced me in my “work”
are mainly landscape painters of the late twentieth
century. My top favourite is the late great American
landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894).
For the past twenty years I have ingested much of
Inness’s work, both in studying his originals and in looking
at reproductions in the many excellent publications that are
available on his life and work.
Hopefully my work incorporates just a hint of what I
admire most in his work.