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.

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.

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.

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!

Kaliedoscope

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

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.

Koi in Motion Study

A lively school of koi glides through shimmering water, their vivid orange and white forms glowing against cool blue-green currents. Expressive brushstrokes and layered reflections create a sense of movement, energy, and tranquility.

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.

Wild Bloom Rhapsody

A vibrant, impressionistic landscape featuring a colorful field of flowers in the foreground, a water scene in the middle, and trees with distant mountains under a bright, open sky. The loose brushstrokes and bold colors create a lively, dreamlike atmosphere focused on mood and natural beauty.

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.

Life Unfolds with Grace

A lively mix of tulips and spring blooms painted with expressive, textured strokes. Rich color conveys the freshness and joyful energy of the season.

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.

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.

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

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.