In the waterscape paintings I enjoy working in oil paints. I feel the texture and consistency of the oils creates the movement in the paintings, and the medium provides the visual depth where required.
The challenge of painting water comes in expressing the nature and effects of water. I am interested in the fluidity, movement, multi-layered hues, light patterns and reflected forms. The exclusion of peripheral objects is used to emphasize the viewer’s movement through the paintings colors and forms
Artist Biography
I grew up in Ohio and the Philadelphia suburbs.
Education
1975 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1992 - 1993 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Graphic Design
Continuing Education
2007 Bill Ewing Workshop
2006 Odd Nerdrum Workshop
2004 Sidney Goodman Workshop
2000 Jon Redmond Workshop
1996 Nelson Shanks Portrait Workshop
1995 - 1996 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Portrait Painting, M. Bockrath
1991 - 1992 Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Illustrated Cover, Philadelphia Poets Journal, 2005
Created posters for Plays: • Take the Baby & Run • Pot Luck Cafe • Shared Hearts • The Confessional
Illustrated cover, Philadelphia Poets Journal, April 2005
Illustrated children’s book Amy Plants a Seed, Author Robert Cellucci, 2001
Exhibitions
Solo
2016 Real & Imagined, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA
2015 Surface Tension, Church Street Gallery, West Chester, PA
2006 Visual Expansion Gallery, West Chester, PA
2003 Water Colors, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA
Two-Person
2013 Land & Sea, Sunset Hill Gallery Gallery, West Chester, PA
Group
2017 Mala Galleria, Kennett Square, PA
2011 Size Matters, an exhibition of four galleries combined - Serpentine Gallery, Art Trust, Sunset Hill Gallery, and Chester Count Art Association, West Chester, PA
2002 William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2000 National Spring Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1998 Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
1997 Hewlett Packard, Wilmington DE
1995 - 2010 Lost Dreams on Canvas, Traveling Exhibition/Project, organized by the Museum of American Art
1995 Student Show, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Human Form, Wallingford Community Art Center, Wallingford, PA
Annual Group Exhibitions
2003 to present Sunset Hill Gallery, West Chester, PA
2011 to present Malvern Retreat House, Malvern, PA
2002 to 2010 Immaculata College, Immaculata, PA
2001 to 2008 Salon des Amis Gallery, Malvern, PA
1994 to Present Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA
1997 - present Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Public Projects
Participating Artist, Lost Dreams on Canvas, Traveling Exhibition/Project, organized by the Museum of American Art Certificate of appreciation from the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation Board
1996 America’s Greatest War Heroes: 6th Annual Tribute to Children in the Crossfire, WHYY Studios, Philadelphia, PA
