Prints

The prints shown here were made over a five year period from 2005 to the present and the great majority of work are monoprints and drypoint etchings. The subject matter spans all of the major themes found throughout my work, such as "Dreams", "Stories from Myth", "People I've Known", etc .... Many of these prints were created at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk Connecticut and The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, and my studio in Connecticut.

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Drawing

My instinct to make pictures started, like most people, visual thinkers or not, with a pencil or crayon. Perhaps it is the comfort of doing something available to me since childhood or perhaps it is the mesmerizing act of making a line, any line, on a piece of white paper. Whatever the reason, I love to draw. Put a pencil or chunk of charcoal in my hand and I am happy as a clam. Drawing shows up even in my paintings, so the work included in the "drawing" category occasionally crosses over in to painting, and even shows up in my prints.

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Collage

When I feel like screaming I paint, but when a whisper is in order, I gather my paper scraps, gouache, glue, and whatever, and commence to make collage. For me this is like practicing scales on a piano, when I can put aside any thought of a lofty purpose, and like a grade school boy, get lost in in hours of clipping and snipping. Not to imply that this work is completely light hearted. They themes and forms that are attached to the work harken back to my impressions of the world during the second Iraq Invasion and my youthful memories working as a roustabout in the offshore oil fields.

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Painting

Paint, Oil, Canvas ... the stuff of gods, but also the stuff of the devil. It only works when it is worthy of the message. That being said, no medium at my disposal gives as much satisfaction and communicate intensity like paint.

The work in oils presented here, like the prints, is a small sample of work completed over my career, though heavily favoring my more current effort. As time has past I have found myself increasingly using acrylic paints mixed with the growing assortment of acrylic mediums that mimic oil. I find it easier to mix with non-traditional drawing media, offering more flexibility and a freer result.

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