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Salute the Silence 27.75 x 42
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Salute the Silence 27.75 x 42
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Summer Meld 24x36
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Summer Meld 24x36
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Return of the Sun 27.5 x 42
Available Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Return of the Sun 27.5 x 42
Available Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Awakening 31x30
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Awakening 31x30
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IMG_694472792
All is Well 26x30.jpg
All is Well 26x30.jpg
WinterLight 24x24.jpg
WinterLight 24x24.jpg
Deep Blue
Deep Blue
Pink Light 6.5 x 7
Available @ Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Pink Light 6.5 x 7
Available @ Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
BeingStill36x36$3200
BeingStill36x36$3200
24x24
24x24
Discovery 30x34
Discovery 30x34
Relinquish 30x30
Relinquish 30x30
InMyDreams15.5x18$1600
InMyDreams15.5x18$1600
Winter light24X24$2600
Winter light24X24$2600
A New Perspective 17.75x18
A New Perspective 17.75x18
Dauntless 31x30
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Dauntless 31x30
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Building Blocks 23x 3.5
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Building Blocks 23x 3.5
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Which Way18x18$1800
Which Way18x18$1800
Half Light 15.75x17
Available contact artist
Half Light 15.75x17
Available contact artist
MorningAccolade17.5x24 $2650
MorningAccolade17.5x24 $2650
Immersed 19x19 Sold
Immersed 19x19 Sold
RiseAbove26x30$2800
RiseAbove26x30$2800
Quiet Constancy 10x11 
Available at Alpers Fine Art, Rockport, Ma
Quiet Constancy 10x11
Available at Alpers Fine Art, Rockport, Ma
Revelation 26x30
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Revelation 26x30
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Where There Is Light 26x32
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Where There Is Light 26x32
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Room for Light 11x12
Available Indigo House Gallery, Cotuit, MA
Room for Light 11x12
Available Indigo House Gallery, Cotuit, MA
New Beginnings 24 x 26
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New Beginnings 24 x 26
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Pink Hope 24x25.jpg sold
Pink Hope 24x25.jpg sold
Just Be 19.5 x 18.5
Available contact artist
Just Be 19.5 x 18.5
Available contact artist
Another Angle 16 x 16
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Another Angle 16 x 16
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The Light of Summer 24x20
Available contact artist
The Light of Summer 24x20
Available contact artist
Hold Faithful 24 x 30
Available contact artist
Hold Faithful 24 x 30
Available contact artist
Looking Back 20 x 30 Sold
Looking Back 20 x 30 Sold
Morning Blush 27x41 
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Morning Blush 27x41
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Awaiting Possibilities 28x36
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Awaiting Possibilities 28x36
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Lilac Sunrise 26 x 25 Oil and cold wax
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Lilac Sunrise 26 x 25 Oil and cold wax
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Beyone18x19$1800
Beyone18x19$1800
Enduring Love 11.5 x 12
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Enduring Love 11.5 x 12
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Summer Heat 12 x 11.5
Available @ Indigo Gallery, Duxbury, MA
Summer Heat 12 x 11.5
Available @ Indigo Gallery, Duxbury, MA
MeetMeThere24x28$3200
MeetMeThere24x28$3200
HomeWaits26.5x25$3200
HomeWaits26.5x25$3200
BeTheLight 11.5x12
Available @ Indigo Gallery, Duxbury, MA
BeTheLight 11.5x12
Available @ Indigo Gallery, Duxbury, MA
MagicHour6.75x9$475
MagicHour6.75x9$475

I have spent many hours, over many years, closely observing and meditating on the structures that surround my summer home.  I have become fascinated by their geometry and the additional shapes created by cast shadows that change and turn depending on my vantage point and the sun’s position.  The outward shapes change, yet I know the underlying structure remains the same.


As I repeatedly draw and redraw these same structures, I seek out the subtle relationships between shapes. Sometimes I see new shapes and I am amazed that I never noticed them before. The lines that bound the shapes will shift depending on my point of view, but the fact that they always lie connected on the same plane ensures their innate relationship: a triangle remains a triangle even when I can’t see it. There is something about this “truth” that makes me hopeful.


Sometimes I draw these shapes that I know are there but cannot see, and then adjust them and leave the trace of my thought process behind as I move and shift in and out of the space of the canvas. I am always searching to discover something previously unseen or un-thought of.  I somehow find it reconfirming when I do. “Ahh, yes” I think.


The paintings develop slowly over time and many changes are made along the way. Often, I sit back and ponder them hanging on my studio wall and I contemplate the shape and color relationships developing in the painting, similar to the way I previously studied them on the actual house.  I am not trying to replicate exactly what it looked like but more of what it felt like to look at them.  Now and then I need to reconnect with that feeling. I continue adjusting until I achieve the color harmony and a balance of shape and space and the painting evokes in me a sense of feeling grounded and centered and connected to something eternal. When I recognize that, it is finished.




Model of the Light Keeper’s house on Sandy Neck, ½” = 1’


I am sitting here in the small kitchen of my cottage looking at this model, pondering what compelled me to construct it. I continue to gaze at it and then I begin to contemplate the light as it falls across the varied geometric planes. It is mesmerizing and I am filled with a sense of being centered and at peace.


I have stood outside and drawn the actual house as it stands in reality many times. I am usually swatting flies, battling wind, and seeking shade. Yet it was not until I built his model that I felt I truly began to “know” this house.  I now know the true actual shape of each plane because I have held each separate piece in my hand.


Even though perceptually these shapes are always changing depending on the angle of my gaze, there is something about the knowledge of each true shape that allows me to abstract more freely.


There is nothing immediate about my painting process and I am not interested with capturing some fleeting impression. I am more interested in searching for what endures in spite of change. Yet I value direct observation and working from life.  I can now sit and observe shadow patterns and explore shape relationships on the model that I could never see before.


Structures