Beartooth Country, Montana 7 x 14 Oil $1,700

Tuscany 10 x 14 Oil $2,100

Bluebird Vista - Laguna 12 x 12 Oil $2,200 (SOLD)

High Mountain Lake 10 x 8 Oil $1,500

PERSONAL STATEMENT ON PAINTING
       "Over the past several years I have been developing my own personal artistic expression in oils of the love I have for the landscape. These paintings are small works, done outdoors on location--PLEIN AIR. They are much freer and looser in style than the works I have done over the years as a freelance illustrator. Painting outdoors has brought a freshness and vitality to my painting. My use of color and design have improved and these paintings are probably the most honest and satisfying work I have created as an artist. In my landscape work , I do not want to paint every leaf or blade of grass... to copy Nature verbatim. I am not trying to "wow" the public with my technical ability. My goal is to create a mood or a feeling; to capture the essence of the landscape or light effect in front of me and somehow, as quickly and efficiently as I can, convey my impression and feeling about it through oil paint to the viewer. I want my audience to "feel the moment," to recall a time or place in their own experience when they were there too. If I can accomplish that, it gives me great pleasure and I feel that I have been successful in my expression of the thing.
  I'm not very philosophical about my work as an artist. Perhaps it is because I have produced so many different styles and subjects over the years as a freelance illustrator, that to become philosophical about it all now seems too contrived. However, my interest in the landscape and wildlife around me has existed for as long as I can remember. The things that most excite my creative instincts can be as simple as a warm evening light at the top of a tree, or a patch of snow that takes on an interesting shape. Those simplicities strike my fancy and I feel the need to somehow express them with a brush and some paint. Having done that, I suppose my only concern then is that others respond with some of the same appreciation I had for the subject when I was first touched by it myself. Sometimes I feel I succeed in reaching that end, other times I may fail, but nevertheless, those remain my goals each time I set out to create a piece of artwork. The more time I spend outdoors studying and painting from Nature, the more I am impressed with the infinite creativity of the Master Artist and His use of design, color, light, texture, and shapes. I have a lot to learn from His work and not much time to learn it."