Orange Tulips at Giverny

Monet's garden, Giverny, is both an artist's and a gardener's hotbed for inspiration: the brightness of the orange tulips massing in front of the background greenery. This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week.

Blue Butterfly Morning

This intuitive painting is a combination of movement and feeling. While no real butterfly is in the painting, the movement of the butterfly and the colors of the sky, the flowers, and the greenery of a garden are there to give the viewer the happiness of being in nature in the early morning hours.

Pink Peonies

This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week. Pink Peonies captures the fluffy and full petals of this soft and fragrant flower.

Cosmos and Butterfly

This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week. A precious moment...a butterfly lights beside us. It's glory and beauty present for us, just for that moment.

The Sunset's Glow

The glow of sunset can change a landscape until it seems almost surreal. Blue and orange are complementary colors and when used together as they are in this painting, they can provide balance for our mind, body, and soul.

Let your soul stand cool and composed

Spontaneous action and accidental decisions sometimes typify our days. My goal is to find a place where regardless of the movement around me, my soul stands cool and composed. This painting is a reaction to that feeling. It is painted on acid-free paper and ready to be mounted and framed. It will rolled up and shipped in a tube after purchase.

Drawn to the Sea

An intuitive painting is a painting that is created as as artist responds to each color and mark while the painting is in process. In Drawn to the Sea I chose my palette of blues and greens and as I painted I began to feel the movement of water within the image. If you look closely to the darker area in the top left quadrant you'll see I introduced a bit of magenta in a splash, to counter-balance the large motion of a wave on the right side. As I paint I reflect on the design that is emerging and I add and subtract color to the painting to emphasize the feeling the painting produces and to create a pleasing display. I hope the viewer feels both the rise and fall in this painting.

Cheerful Coreopsis

This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week. The coreopsis is the flower of the year for 2025. In this painting I used yellow's complementary color, purple, to play against the soft shades of yellow in the Moonbeam coreopsis.

Zion Perspective

When we traveled in the Southwest USA, I never got over the stunning rock formations there. Massive towering cliffs and mesas seize your attention. The beauty in that geographical area is breathtaking and unforgettable. Even through the trees...surprise, there are those beautiful rocks!

Corner Daffodils

This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week. Yellow daffodils are some of the first signs of spring; a symbol of the process of renewal in the cycle of life.

Kaliedoscope

When Spring is in bloom, the irises show their beautiful curves and ruffles.

The Rising of the Storm

Storms intrigue me. The drama. The percussion. The wind and change of temperature on my skin. I stand and watch, fully aware of the power and danger they hold.

Irises 2

As I paint I play with the shapes and colors in these irises, allowing one form to complement the next. My art parallels life, as I respond to life as it presents itself to me.

Vibrant Flowers

The colors of flowers are pretty much unmatched by anything else in nature. What a joy to paint the vibrant colors of these flowers on my front porch.

Painting Pots: Yellowstone

When I saw this image from a family trip to Yellowstone I knew I wanted to paint it. I wanted to contrast the sapphire color of the water in the geyser pool with the whites and browns in the land around the water. Out of the depths comes this captivating color of blue. Capturing a piece of nature so that it can be enjoyed for years to come is a privilege of an artist.

Red and Purple Daffodils

This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week. Red and Purple Daffodils splashes colors together and creates a fresh look on the familiar spring flower.

I am Large. I Contain Multitudes

This intuitive painting felt like a dramatic scene as I painted it and responded to my inner expression. The textures and colors began to feel like a vast space of unknown.

Azure and Gold

This intuitive painting is a play between openness and depth. The yellows and greens create the light within the painting and if you look closely you'll see several bits of metallic gold that reflect light and make the play of colors sparkle and dance on the paper. The dark blues pull back and create distance. Because there is no recognizable image, as you view this painting you are allowed the freedom to enjoy the interaction of the colors as they play with each other in the layers of the painting.

Irises

Purple dominates this close-up of a piece of Spring. Teach me to hold the scene lightly, because each iris bloom only lasts only a couple days.

Roanoke River Lighthouse

This lighthouse stands just offshore, in Edenton, North Carolina. It's a sweet little historic town with an interesting past. Take time to visit the lighthouse and the Chowan Arts Council there.

Abstract in Africa

Working from a photo of a zebra, my goal was to create the feeling of a zebra in dry yellow grass, but not paint it directly. When we visited Africa we were constantly on the lookout for the next animal...and as we drove, sometimes it would be just one fast look we got. You got to see it...but not for long.

Spring Tulips in Giverny

Monet's gardens in Giverny are a mecca for artists. While there, I captured this scene with the mass of tulips in the foreground and came home to paint it with watercolors. In a field of greens, the pink of the flowers are convey freshness and are a delightful nod to the colors of spring.

The Humming Bird

Most people finds birds delightful, especially hummingbirds. In this little painting I used the complementary colors of red and green to contrast highly with each other while the bird sits serenely on the branch. This painting is part of a series of 11 paintings completed for the Virginia Garden Club's Historic Garden Week.

On a Quiet Road

Sometimes when I'm out walking in the Yorktown area, the quiet of the scene is what captures my attention. I captured that in this painting with the greens and purples, and the cool blue of the shadows.

Radiant Garden 1

When I paint I let the colors speak and i respond. When I work in my garden, my flowers continually surprise me with their vibrancy and movement. My goal with this painting was to capture those colors and the rhythm of the breeze.

Consider the Lilies

I painted Consider the Lilies as a contemplation of the curves, both within the flowers and within the leaves. The curves undulate as the viewer's eye is lead around the painting. Lilies are ephemeral...as are we. We sometimes find ourselves consumed with the burdens and hurts of daily life, yet if we consider the lilies, we realize a power much greater than ourselves can be trusted. This painting is matted and framed in a champagne gold wood frame.

Blue butterfly Day

I created two paintings in this series. One expressed the morning and the other expressed day time. Both used the same colors, but in responding to my inner feelings of the different times of day, I found I was able to create images to express them. This day time painting depicts a heavy color tone with slow steady movement, like a gentle breeze in a shaded and lush garden, with an interplay of flowers, greenery and sky.

Every moment of the light and the dark

Zion Trail

Atmosphere and space was breathtaking in so many views during our trip to the southwest in the USA. I painted this scene to capture the space in between the trail and the rock formations in the distance. Those rock formations felt so close as I walked on the trail. I saw a message in the scene: the future is shaped by our beliefs and actions. When we reach our goal it is usually through hard work and a lot of persistent focus. They seem close, but many hours of diligent work are required to touch our dreams.

The Way Through the Woods

The woods are a metaphor for life. We all find our own way through life. I painted this image represent that. The light that shines through the leaves makes the unknown distance a welcome adventure. As an artist I find joy in using symbolism to represent abstract ideas and emotions, but viewers get to interpret their own deeper meaning beyond the literal.