About the Artist

I'm an artist who lives in upstate NY. My primary focus is on painting landscapes, although I occasionally paint wildlife and domestic animals.

My first artwork, which I don't remember creating, is a family legend of sorts. My parents told me that when I was a year-and-a-half old I drew weird-looking birds with pointy teeth that looked a lot like extinct dodo birds all over my crib sheet with a ball-point pen. My mother kept the sheet, and they really did look a lot like dodo birds. My parents guessed that the pen must have fallen out of my father's shirt pocket when he was putting me in my crib. Their guess was probably correct, but it doesn't explain how I knew what dodo birds were and why I thought they had pointy-looking, reptilian teeth. Anyway, ever since I was a little kid I was into nature. I grew up fishing, hiking, birding and canoeing with my father in Central NY, with an occasional foray into the Adirondacks. We also did some hunting together, but mutually decided that hunting for us was just an excuse to walk around in the woods, looking at wildlife, so we decided to give up hunting and just walk around in the woods at around the same time. I still do some hunting, but not with a gun. Now I hunt for landscapes to paint.

I'm self-taught and have worked in a number of mediums, from watercolors to acrylics to pastels. Have recently experimented with oils and alkyds. My artistic heroes are Winslow Homer, Charles Burchfield, John Constable, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper and the wildlife artist, Robert Kuhn, whose work I first became exposed to in my grandfather's old Field & Stream magazines.

For me the medium isn't the message, the subject matter is. You paint what you love, and I love the land around me. I think it's beautiful, and I'd like to see it stay that way. I use different techniques depending on the medium I'm using and what I happen to be painting at the time. But the bottom line is my love of the land, and my fervent hope that it stays beautiful and able to support both people and animals for many years into the future.

Most of the paintings shown here are for sale, just not here, at least not yet. If you see a painting you like, send me an email. If you'd like to see more of my paintings, go to my links page and click on the "Fine Art America" or "Pixels" links (there are about 260 paintings at those sites). If you see something that you like, send me an email (you can buy a print on Pixels and/or Fine Art America if you want). If you'd like to check out some of my smaller paintings, click on the "The Forest And The River" link.

I have a framed original on display at The Selective Eye, a gift shop attached to the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts: 403 Canal Place, Little Falls, NY 13365. Eight more are on display at the Little Falls Antique Shop, located at 25 West Mills Street, also in Little Falls. Five others are on display at the Micropolis, a co-op art gallery located inside the Mohawk Harvest Cooperative Market at 30 North Main Street, Gloversville NY, 12078.

Thank you for looking at my work.

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The following is a brief listing of recent competitions and galleries that my work is and has been associated with. This listing will be updated as it changes:

National Competitions:

2014 - The Artist's Magazine - Entered in their annual art competition. Made the finals with my acrylic painting, The Weir at Oaks Creek Crossing. There were about 6,500 entries from around 70 countries in the competition, with about 400 finalists.

2017 - The Artist's Magazine - Entered their annual art competition again. Made the finals with my acrylic painting, October Birches. Think there were around 7,000 entries that year.

2024 - Acrylic Works - entered their annual competition this year. Results won't be in for a few months yet.

Gallery Exhibits:

2012 - Work exhibited at the Broad Street Gallery Co-op in Hamilton NY. Member of the Co-op at the time.

2013 - Work exhibited at the Little Falls Antique Center in Little Falls, NY.

2017 - Work exhibited at The Selective Eye, a gift shop adjunct of the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, in Little Falls, NY. One of my paintings is on display there now.

Currently - Work exhibited at The Selective Eye in Little Falls, NY, at the Little Falls Antique Shop in Little Falls, and at the Micropolis in Gloversville, NY.

Like almost all websites, this one is under construction, and will be changing as my art situation changes.