"I hope with all my heart that there will be painting in heaven."- Camille Corot

I was trained, much more to be a studio painter, than anything else. The Academy didn't discourage painting directly from nature, but the "ethos" of the late 1960s, was that serious art was done by wrestling with formal and intellectual problems in a studio, rather than quaintly perched beside a river or something. After all, Impressionism had pretty well exhausted that genre, hadn't it?
Also, "serious work" had to be large! It was better to leave painting directly from nature to the "amateurs." The word "amateur" once meant someone who did something for the love of it, rather than any monetary or other compensation. My goal is to be an "amateur!"
In the past few years, I've re-discovered the pure joy of painting directly from nature.
It is very difficult painting, and requires a different set of skills than studio work. It is like the difference between "chess" and "speed chess!" I was always baffled by how well Louis Sloan, one of my great instructors at PAFA, could do this type of work, and I occasionally tried it, with limited success. But since last year, I've worked more intently on it, and actually feel as if I'm getting somewhere!" Art allows us to change and evolve and renew ourselves. I'm not abandoning studio work... but here's to the open sky!
click thumbnails to see the work...

"Pgh. Coal Train"(sold) (at James Gallery- Pittsburgh),	"The Ohio from" Mt. Washington" (sold) (at James Gallery- Pittsburgh),	"Pittsburgh from South Side Warf"(sold) (at James Gallery- Pittsburgh),	"From the Top of" Pennsylvania-Rt.30 Breezwood	"From Crown's at Harsen's Island Michigan"(sold)
"Erie From Presque Isle" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA)	"Lake Erie Morning" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA)	"Lake Erie Evening"	"Erie: Sailing Out" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA)	"Erie North Pier"(sold)
"Gettysburg: Morning (from Confederate position"	"Gettysburg: Evening from Union position"	"Gettysburg: Little Round Top"	"Gettysburg: The Wheatfield"	"Gettysburg: Where Lincoln Spoke"

"Schooner" (at Rodger LaPelle- Phila.), "Gray Atlantic" "Penobscot Bay from Mt. Battie" "Islesboro Ferry Stop" "Bay Side near Prout's Neck" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA)

"Near Port Clyde" "Camden in Fog from Mt. Battie" (Sold) "Beauchamp Point" (at Sherry French Gallery NewYork City) (Sold) "Ducktrap Inlet"

"Lincolnville Beach" (Sold) "Camden Point" (at Rodger LaPelle- Phila.), "Owl's Head Light State Park" (Sold) "Cape Elizabeth Fog" "Camden Cliffs" (at Rodger LaPelle- Phila.),

"Mt. Battie" "Lamoine Point" (Sold) "Anchorage at Lamoine State Park"(at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA) "Cape Nedick"

"Camden" "Wells Beach" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA)

"Brandywine (Gold)"

"The Stroud Preserve" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA)

"Purple Sunset" (sold)

"A Bend in the Creek (Brandywine)"

"The Delaware near Carney's Point" (Sold)

"Susquehanna below York Haven" (sold) "LooseStrife and Bouy"

"Conowingo Power Plant"

"Goldsboro Dock" "Dock with Loosestrife"

"Susquehanna Haze"

"Susquehanna Sunrise" (at Sunset Hill Gallery West Chester, PA) (Sold)

"Before the Concert"

"The Hill"

"Path to Swimming"

"The Main Stage"

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