For many years, I have explored the landscape and still-life as vehicles for my interest in color, shape and spatial relationships. The work has ranged from realism to impressionism. However color has always been my primary concern – finding that “right” color that makes the others relate, sometimes in harmony and sometimes with tension. The joy is in finding the color that modifies the colors around it with its luminosity, weight, and distance or proximity to the others. Major influences have been Bonnard, Diebenkorn and DeKooning. For the last few years, my work has been exclusively non-representational, allowing me more freedom to express my own emotions and to explore the canvas surface and the plasticity of oil paint. Shapes are always present, perhaps subconsciously drawn from years of landscape experience. My present concern is how to preserve the dynamic quality of paint applied with some abandon, yet to construct the work as a cohesive whole. My work is in many collections from New England to California.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
B. A. - Manhattanville College
M.P.H. - Yale Medical School
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute
Silvermine School of Art
Vermont Studio School
SCHOLARSHIPS
Pastel Society of America to Old Lyme Academy of Art
GROUP SHOWS
2009-2008
Rowayton Juried All-Media Show-”Expressions”
Rowayton Juried Show-Mavis Fenner Memorial Show
Spectrum Juried Art Exhibition
Darien Art Show - 2nd Prize in oil
2007-1988
Rowayton Arts Center - numerous awards in oil and watercolor
Greenwich Arts Society - awards in oil
Darien Arts Council - awards in oil and watercolor
Spectrum Juried Art Exhibition-award in oil
Wee Burn Country Club - organized and participated in first show of members work
Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, CT
ONE PERSON SHOWS
Darien Library
Stone Studio, Stamford, CT
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Geary Gallery, Darien, CT
Isaac Bea Young Gallery, Chatham, MA