Mountain Milkweed

I have always been madly in love with the natural world more as an observer of beauty than a discoverer of nature’s secrets. Drawing was a hobby that started in childhood and stayed untutored for many years.

Bonzai

Tulips and Daffodils

So for me it was always about looking intensely at the everyday beauty around me, and learning to represent a point of view whether with painting or photography. Painting these watercolors was an exercise in becoming even more intense in the looking and in the seeing of color, shape, depth and beauty of the object(s) before me.

Belmont Barn

It is also a practice of patience and even meditation. The landscapes and still pieces required becoming involved with the smallest and largest details, while learning the mystique of color, water, the brush, the paper and the composition.

Eggplant

Lately, I have been doing more with camera than with brush and paint, but I apply the same disciplines of looking, selecting and then representing what I see and the way I see it.

Exmore Diner Eastern Shore

Winter Sky and Marshes


Winter Sunset Accomac


St James Church Accomac