I live in a small farming town along the shores of the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts, a place with hawks and herons, deer and bobcats, and too many woodchucks for the good of the garden. I’ve been a specialist bookseller of rare and obscure books on the arts, dabbled as a writer & poet, and I’ve drawn & painted since I was young. I find my subjects in both life and imagination- scenes from the Pioneer Valley, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and our travels, as well as in images from my collection of “vintage vernacular photography” (old snapshots). Like most artists I’m fascinated by light and color, and try to combine them with form to capture movement and moods. Details may veer from absolute “reality”, but the spirit of the places and spaces needs to be true.