acrylic on canvas

I began learning oil painting in mid-1990’s art classes and workshops in Marin, but am largely self-taught, having learned a great deal from artist colleagues when I joined groups such as the Marin Society of Artists long ago. Oil painting is still my preferred medium, sometimes acrylic.

I am fascinated by three-dimensionality, motion, luminescence, color, shadows and reflection, and abstract effects, so water in motion or in any state is my favorite subject. I am drawn to close-up details, rocks, leaves, sand patterns, whatever, and I am always experimenting. Once in a while I try abstraction. I work until I am satisfied that the details of the painting are mind-catching. In the end, I may have achieved the goal toward which I set out.