Saturday, September 17, 2016



The most recent battle with my art is lack of time.  I am frustrated pretty badly because I am overwhelmed with ideas to place on paper or canvas.  I can't possibly paint all of them so I transfer my ideas into notes and sketchbooks to clear my head so that I can get to them at a later time and to make room for new ideas.  This painting is at Harris Stanton Gallery for the Art-ini Auction through Sep. 23 with a vodka tasting closing reception



The horse farm:  The shadows create large minimal shapes.  It loses itself as a photograph and becomes abstract.

Sunday, July 17, 2016



What I hoped to achieve was an impression of Cleveland incorporating the houses which inspired this picture.  The painting is not impressionism in the classical use of the term, but the simplification and idealization of the buildings and landscape and the indication of detail does not give a naturalistic view but an indication of what we see.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

 
Originally I was going to have only one cube at an angle and attached to a base with a dowl.  So I started with one wooden cube.  With time constraints I realized that  attaching the cube would pose a bit of a dilemma.  As the idea stewed I realized that stacking the cubes would solve the dilemma of  a base and create a repetition in the piece so I added more cubes and developed the idea with 3 cubes.
This piece went to the 2016 Arts Alive Out of the Box Auction at Summit Artspace in Akron.

Monday, May 23, 2016



I have a wall of work up at Acme #1 in the produce section.  It went up for the new grand re-opening of Acme #1.  Thank you Steve and Sophie Albrecht from Acme for choosing my work to be displayed and Thank you Meg from Harris Stanton Gallery for promoting my work.  The wall looks fantastic.  The colors of the produce and the colors of the paintings play off of one another and create a really exciting environment.


Saturday, May 14, 2016




This piece went to Kutztown PA for Salon of Small Works Invitational.  The colors are what have me asking questions here. I couldn't tell you why I chose this color palette.  Every section of the painting I picked colors separately without thinking of the rest of the painting or if it would work or not. The sky is copper.  The roof is silver. The driveway is silver on top of a greyish underpainting showing through. Surprisingly enough though it gives a certain mood that actually works.  The trim echoes the sky and grass, and the driveway echoes the house. At first I didn't like it but seeing it from distance changed my mind.

Thursday, April 21, 2016


Another Monster Drawing Rally at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland. It was great fun. I always enjoy it  and I did this year too.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016



Working within the confines of premeditated colors and solutions this piece liberates me from myself, but then again I try to liberate myself in every piece that I do.  Each piece liberates me in different ways because each piece requires different solutions.  I find surprises in all the artwork I do. Watching something unfold is exciting and I keep going on because I like the feeling of excitement.  There is a thrill in creating artwork.  It is not boring.  When I do finish a piece I feel a bit of a let down and I am already for the next piece in order to get the elated feeling again.