I’ve had a lifelong engagement in creative expression in my personal and business life, but it wasn’t until I retired in 2019 that I could devote full-time to becoming an artist.  My art education combines touring galleries and museums on three continents and taking classes at Door County’s Peninsula School of Art.

We all come to Door County for the incredible sunsets, the ever changing waterscapes, the colorful change of seasons and some of us even come for the ice sculptures created along the shoreline in winter.  These are the experiences I capture in both realistic and abstract paintings, combining both styles in the same painting.

While light gets all of the attention in discussions of atmosphere I am fascinated by the movement of water through the bays along the Peninsula. That movement is usually shown as rolling waves crashing onto the beach. But when you stand on the western shore throughout the seasons the surface heaves and dives, glasses over and gets whipped into a frenzy, and color changes throughout the day reflecting the interplay of sky, clouds, sun and moon.  

My oil painting “Prelude”, seen here, contrasts the seagulls mulling their next move with the lush distant bluff and the abandoned dock that once served the car ferry in Hedgehog Harbor, Gills Rock.  This painting also illustrates the combination of abstracted water in motion with the realism of all the other elements.   

Having begun painting in 2021 I’m gratified to have had my work appear in The Hardy Gallery, Wood Walk Gallery, the Peninsula School or Art and the Door Prize for Portraiture competition at Chez Cheryl Gallery.

I’m happy to discuss commissions.