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, a writer & poet, and drawn & painted since I was young.

I create art because if I’m not creating something I feel a void. I find inspiration in the colors and forms of the fields and woods and farms of the Pioneer Valley as well as on the seacoast of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. I love the movement and the form of the sky and the trees, the meadows and the seacoast, and I try to bring that movement to my work in the colors and brushstrokes.

Like a piece of music, or a book or a poem, a painting should make you feel something; the heart of painting is emotion. Every art form has defining characteristics and painting is defined by its two-dimensional surface, to which the artist brings color and form. A writer “paints” with words, and an artist “writes” with pigments and brushstrokes. The result, hopefully, is an emotional response in the mind or heart of the audience.‍ ‍