About the Artist

I have been creating art, drawing and painting since my teens, it has been a fifty five years journey, fifty of those years seriously. I have worked in all the major painting media, oils, acrylics (acrylic tempera), pastels and watercolors. Drawing has always been my first love of art and continues today, mostly as preparatory works, sketches, but still I have the need to create a drawing that stands on its own. The years have seen me painting with detailed realism, to Impressionism, to semi-abstraction and expressionism. The land and sea have been the most constant subject matter for me, nothing pleases me more than sitting in nature, be it a hillside, woods or shoreline. I find myself more and more leaning toward a more expressionistic still representational realm of painting, less concerned about what lies physically in front of me and more about my emotional response to the subject, not always adhering to the reality but to what I feel and imagine.

I have participated in many shows, one-man, juried and invitational, having won a number of awards. I have had pastels in the ‘Top 100 Pastel Artist’ featured in the Pastel Journal magazine twice, and most recently have a watercolor in the ‘Splash 24’ edition of The Best Of Watercolor magazine. 

Throughout this fifty years journey my greatest support has always been my beautiful wife Kathy. Without her love and support the journey might never have happened.

 Selected Shows

*Big Draw Colorado, Arvada Center For The Arts, 2023

*Slash 24, The Best Of Watercolor Magazine, 2023

*Art Of The Sangres, 2019

*Pastel Society Of New mexico Juried Exhibition, 2019

*Coors Western Art Show, Club Artist, 2019

*Mile High National Pastel Exhibition, 2021, 20, 19, 18

*Top 100 Pastel Artists, Pastel Journal Magazine, April 2018

*Coors Western Art Show, Club Artist, 2018

*Illuminated, Online Show, Pastel Society Of Colorado, 2017 (Award)

*BoldBrush 15%, Fine Art Studio Online Competition, December 2017

*BoldBrush 15%, Fine Art Studio Online Art Competition, August 2017

*Illuminated, Online Show, Pastel Society Of Colorado, 2016

*BoldBrush 15%, Fine Art Studio Online art competition, December 2016

*Top 100 Pastel Artists, Pastel Journal Magazine, April 2016 Issue

*Water And Dust, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, Md. 2015

*Foothills Artists, Artist Studio Tour, Adams County, PA. 2014-2015

*Pennsylvania Landscapes, Two Person Show, Council For The Arts, Chambersburg, PA 2012

*Five Guys, Fifty Artworks, Gettysburg, PA. 2010
*Adams County Art Council Juried Exhibition, Gettysburg, PA. 2012, 10 ,09, 08, 05, 04
*Cumberland Valley Arts Exhibition, Washington County Museum of Art, 2012, 10, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 1999, 98, 96
*Juried Regional Exhibition, The Artists' Gallery, 2007
*Landscapes: One-man Show, Deleplaine Visual Arts Center, 2006 
*Ninth Annual Boston International Art Show, Boston, MA, 2005
*American Regionalist Paintings, Gettysburg Collage, 2005
*Juried Regional Exhibition, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, 2005, 04, 03, 02
*Art of the State, State Museum of PA, 2004
*The Landscape, Bennet Street Gallery, 2002
*Summer Music Solon, Bennet Street Gallery, 2002
*Points of View, Chadds Ford Gallery, 2002

Awards

 Boldbrush competition, Second Place - Abstract, June 2023
 Finalist, Splash 24, Best Of Watercolor Magazine 2023

Honorable Mention, PAAC Member Show, 2018

First Place, PSOC Member show, 2018

Honorable Mention for Wildlife, Pastel Journal Magazine, Top 100 Pastel Artists 2018

Best Of Show, Illuminated Online show, Pastel Society Of Colorado

Honorable Mention for Landscape, Pastel Journal Magazine, Top 100 Pastel Artists 2016

Best of Show, Washington County Museum of Art
Second Place, Adams Art Council's Juried Exhibition
Grumbacher Gold Medal Award, Hoyt Institute of Art
Juror's Choice Award, Maryland Federation of Art
Sheridan-Martinsburg Inn Award, Evens Run Art Association

Collections
Numerous private and corporate collections

Professional Affiliations

American Watercolor Society

Pastel Society Of Colorado

Published: Fine Art Views - iMAGine - Pastel Journal Magazine - Best Of Watercolor Magazine