My style of painting "Open Air Painting", which is painting
landscapes in the great outdoors on location has been inspired mostly by three
things.
One is the great love I have to be outdoors, which goes back to my first college days at Paul Smiths. Paul Smiths is a forestry school in northern New York. I feel being outdoors on location is the only way I can catch the true colors and feeling that a Landscape has over a period of time.
The second is my private study of early American artists such as the following: J. Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase, Frank W. Benson, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer.
The third is the late famous local Woodstock artist John F. Carlson who's book on Landscape painting was a strong influence.
Graduated from Rondout Valley High School with an art major in 1971.
Woodstock School of Art - attended workshop studies under Mary Ann Goetz.
Studied Open Air Landscape Painting under Don Stone for over 10 years, who is an artist from Maine that has won over 65 major awards.
Chairman for the Saugerties Art Council - current.
I am a member of the following: The New York Plein Air Painters, Tivoli Artists' Co-op, Barrett Art Center, and the Ulster County Art Council.
I won a number of awards in the Hudson Valley for my paintings, i.e., Best of Show a number of times with Ulster County Art Council and the Saugerties Art Council.
The local newspapers such as the Woodstock Times, Kingston Freeman, and the Saugerties Star have done several articles and reviews over the years.
The display of my paintings at several places in the Hudson Valley such as galleries, art shows, corporation show rooms, and banks.
I have done a number of painting demos for other local art clubs.