Artworks Gallery
May 18-June 13
Reception: May 20

I credit my mother for instilling in me the love of nature and art.  She gave me my first oil paints at the age of six.  We would go out together to do plein air painting in the New England countryside.  From her I learned the basics of color and composition.  From that point on art became my passion: studying, teaching and creating.

While at Yale Graduate School of Art I was privileged to study under Josef Albers and his successor Sewell Sillman. The hours spent studying Albers “Interaction of Color” profoundly changed how I interact with color.  It is the foremost element of art that effects me on many levels. Another major influence has been the expressionist work of contemporary  landscape artist Wolf Kahn, who thinks “outside of the box” in terms of color.

These “Studies” reflect my investigation of Nature’s colors. The small watercolors force me to reduce broad scenes into simple color compositions.  The challenge then becomes to make large paintings that capture the sense of Montana’s  wide open spaces while remaining intimately connected to nature and its seductive array of colors.

 I am fortunate to live in a rural area that blesses me daily with amazing combinations of colors.  Although the scene may be the same, the drama played out by Mother Nature is an ever changing palette.

 Hopefully, I will never run out of color studies or inspiration!