Strung Up

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure." - Karl Menniger

This painting is 11" x 8" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Town Hall

"Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before." - Shelby Steele

I usually don't photograph my paintings indoors, but it has been so foggy and cold outside. Good thing I have an indoor event on Saturday!

This painting is 11" x 8" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

I received my 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship comments today. They mentioned that I should consider making larger work for the second year in a row. I think it's time I take that advice. Be prepared to see some bigger pieces.

Brrrrr...

On The Roof

"Do you ever wonder if the guy in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?" ― Bill Watterson

This painting is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting. 

Replenish

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." - John F. Kennedy

This painting is 6" x 8" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Victorian

"I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought." - Helen Keller

This painting of the Boardwalk Plaza hotel in Rehoboth Beach, DE is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Urban Winter Morning

 "For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?" - Thornton Wilder

This painting is 6" x 8" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Morning Commute

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen DeGeneres

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Secured

"To contemplate is to look at shadows." - Victor Hugo

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Salem Nightlife

"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark." - Theodore Parker

This painting is 11" x 8" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Bear Meeting House

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell

This painting is 9" x 12" oil on hardboard. When I told my neighbor I'd paint his house I had two paintings in mind and this is the second one. This piece is part of the Winter Show at Crystal Moll Gallery, starting February 16th.

I'd also like to share some recognition I received on Friday. I was chosen for an honorable mention for the Delaware Division of the Arts 2012 Fellowship program. This is quite a feat for this very competitive award!

Sunset at Salem

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

I want to wish everyone a very happy holiday, whichever one you celebrate (or even none at all!) 

Quiet Time

"When fortune calls, offer her a chair" - Yiddish Proverb

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Morning Poetry

 "The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel.

Tall Grass

 "A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long." - Sloan Wilson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sweet Sky

 "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."  - Rabindranath Tagore

In the Sun

 "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This painting is 12" x 9" oil on hardboard. This is a commissioned painting of my neighbor's house so it is not for sale. His house was built 100 years ago and he thought it would be cool to have for the upcoming anniversary. When it was built it was used as a general store, school house (check out that bell!) and a meeting house.

November Sunset

 "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."   - Elizabeth Bowen

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Fresh Start

"With each sunrise, we start anew." - Unknown

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Welcoming Door

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Audience

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.