I have been making art my whole life, at different times focusing on ceramics, fiber arts, paper making, and now painting oil landscapes for the past 15 years. After graduating from Plymouth (NH) State University as an Art Education/Art History major, I was a fiber artist whose appliqued landscape wall hangings sold in galleries and juried shows, and were commissioned by collectors throughout New England. I began painting intensively in 2006, inspired by artists such as the Canadian Group of Seven, Emily Carr, and Maine artists Edward Hopper and Fairfield Porter.
I have spent part of every summer and fall for the past 40 years on Gotts Island, just off the southern tip of MDI – a source of constant inspiration. My paintings speak to a sense of place and the landscapes I love – from the coastal marshes and islands of Maine to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and occasionally travels out west. My inspiration comes from the dramatic and constantly changing elements of sky, land, water, and especially the edges where they meet and merge. Time spent in these still wild and beautiful places reinforces the need to ensure robust conservation efforts so they will be here for future generations. In the words of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, “Once protected, these lands will forever enrich the lives of all who live, work, and play (and create art!) here.”
My paintings represents both plein air and studio work from my photographs, memory, and imagination. My work has been exhibited in a number of group and solo shows, and is included in several private and corporate collections. I am currently represented by the Cornerstone Gallery in Southwest Harbor, Maine and by WREN’s Local Works Gallery in Bethlehem, NH.
I hope my paintings will evoke in the viewer a memory of having been in places like these, or a yearning to feel alive in the elements – be it a sudden squall, the peace of a coastal fog, or windswept clouds flying over granite islands and white-capped seas.
I work full-time as a senior philanthropy advisor at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and live in Intervale, NH, just over the Maine border. I paint as often as possible.
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