Welcome to my website.  In the galleries you will see my more recent paintings. They were done during different Plein Air events.  And while on vacations across the country.

Favorite paintings

The 2020 Poet/Artist Collaboration will be in Red Wing MN this year.  

Inspiration:  The poem I have for inspiration is "In April". It is a short poem about silver sunfish darting through the water.  I have some reference pictures of fish in a pond, but a painting of just fish would not be very interesting. Looked through the reference pictures I've taken of various lakes and rivers across the country during our vacations.  Decided to put the fish in the Umpqua River in Oregon with Mount Hood in the background.

The painting is called "In the River" 16x20 oil