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The original inspiration for my artwork is based on the first impressions that I received as a young man while working with my father on his 42 acre parcel of wooded land in Putnam County New York. The solitude that I experienced in those woods, along with the mountain and valley views that surrounded me, arrested my young imagination. While I didn’t learn to verbalize those first impressions until later years, I became certain early on that I wanted to spend all of my days living in that kind of atmosphere. Sometime in my late 20’s while living on Long Island, I was in a public library and happened across a coffee table book based on the artwork of Andrew Wyeth. The images that I saw as I paged through the book connected almost immediately with the deep feelings that I had for the upstate New York landscape embedded in my mind.
Wyeth’s paintings of his Pennsylvania surroundings led me to other landscape artists such as Winslow Homer and John S. Sargent. I began to see that these landscape painters were projecting, not just a copy of what their eyes were beholding in the landscape, but what their souls were perceiving as well. It was at that point in time in the early 1990s that I decided to believe what my heart was telling me about my own memories and impressions of the landscape. I bought paint and canvases and began the journey.
The art and craft of landscape painting is rooted in the soul, and each artist’s vision can only be manifested through the mixing of one’s emotional experience of the environment along with a strong motivation to interpret what one sees as art.
I have been painting in a largely impressionistic style for the past 30 years, and my paintings are hanging in office buildings, restaurants, on the covers of books, and in the homes of art lovers and collectors in England, Germany, France, Canada, and all of the lower 48 states. A few of the artists that have had a significant influence on my artwork are: George Braque, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Derain, William Lawrence and Frank Webb.