Short Bio

Watercolor artist breaking out after a long wait… 49, 50 years? Never too late, they say. They are right.

Statement

“More often than not, the sky is my muse.” I saw that statement from another artist and feel it describes my approach to painting as well. I start with a sky most of the time. I have lived most of my life on the high plains of the front range of Colorado and Wyoming where the sky is a part of every landscape. Distances are vast and the sky huge. Very different from the Midwest and south, where I have also spent some time. And, of course, the west is arrid, so the skies are not heavy with humidity. So, I paint what I know. I paint landscapes because I am, again, moved more often than not by the scenes I have viewed and visited over my lifetime. As a late starting painter, I have a mind full of images from my memory and the beauty of watercolor is that I can begin with a sky and, with a few strokes, a landscape element will appear and suggest itself. So, I often paint from memory. At other times the watercolor takes over when I paint from a reference photo. The reference will be obvious but I also paint loosely and allow the watercolor to do its thing. It is just such a beautiful medium. With a mind, and even a memory, of its own. And often this allows the viewer to see something from his or her own memory in the painting. If that happens, I am happy and feel I’ve accomplished my goal as an artist: to evoke a response with the viewer. 

Biography

I graduated with a Bachelors degree in Art in 1972 and a law degree in 1980. Law degree paid better and I soon had a family and, well, clients. A career. Art took a back seat, though I did have some starts and stops while plying my trade as an attorney. I retired and, after a few years, jumped into the water, so to speak, taking up watercolor. The "evidence" as we lawyers like to call it, is here.