Salt air, salt spray, sweet smell of summer grass, verdant marsh, an old house at the water's edge, wind in your hair, sun on your face. These elements draw me outdoors, to the grassy dunes of Truro, the calm marshes of the North Shore, to the rugged cliffs of Maine. Many of my paintings are done "en plein air", a method introduced in the mid-1800's by Boudin and other French artists, and pursued vigorously by the Impressionists, a name coined by an art critic in response to Claude Monet's work, Impression, Sunrise, 1872. Each of my works is done as spontaneously as possible, with only minimal blocking in of forms.
