Currently there aren’t any paintings available for purchase, so please check back. Prints of my artwork are occasionally available from Saatchi Art Gallery.

I’ve often happily said yes to non-profit fund raising endeavors by donating artwork, and this has ranged from supporting a local pet shelter to church-related community outreach efforts. (Get in touch with me if you’re organizing a fund raiser, to see if I have art inventory to donate.)

If you’re interested in commissioning a painting, details about the process are on the Custom Art page (contact the studio to receive additional information).

A heartfelt thank you to all who have sent comments about the artwork– I’m honored. And, sharing a few kind words from a collector: “I love how this painting makes the room and surrounding space feel– it is always soothing, and I’m inspired by the scene. I’ve looked so long to find art like this.”

Quotable: Many artists (along with other creatives and great thinkers) have offered insight about the nature and purpose of artistic pursuits. Some discuss art’s ability to reveal inner truths and expand our perspective, while others highlight the vision and meaning found in the creative process itself.

“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” -John Updike

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso.

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The challenge is not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes.” -Proust

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot

“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” -Aaron Rose

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” -Aristotle

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”  – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”  -Herman Melville

“The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hands of man.”  – Unknown

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”  -Albert Einstein

“There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.”  -Josephine Hart

A note about art that has influenced me: I’ve long admired the work of Edward Hopper, Wolf Kahn, Maynard Dixon, Winslow Homer, Grant Wood, and Jasper Johns, to name a few. Homer’s The Veteran in a New Field and Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning inspired me at a very young age, revealing that art can offer depth of meaning and new ways of looking at something without ever saying a word.