Included on this web site are a few of my older

artistic "accomplishments" coupled with my latest.

The above quotes bordering the word "accomplishments"

indicate that the challenges are always great when re-entering

After nearly forty plus years away

from the brushes and colors,

it has taken a little longer than

I am currently greatly enamoured with

landscape painting. Painting outdoors has

been a real challenge. Getting a painting blocked

in quickly before the light moves to a new location

The 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 artist George Inness (1825-1894).

For the past twenty years I have ingested much of

his work, both in studying his originals and in looking

at reproductions in the many excellent publications

available on his life and work.

Hopefully my work might indicate a few traces indicating

As I continue to hone my eye for color - along with the myriad

of techniques involved in wielding both the brush and the knife,