The Rhône Valley of France

The Rhône Valley of France

The Rhône Valley is one of the truly beautiful places. It is home to vineyards, olive trees, delicious goat cheese, and a landscape that is unimaginably beautiful. My first glimpse was in May of 1989, when I took a teaching assistant job at Lacoste School of the Arts...
The canvas from my teacher, Sig Haines

The canvas from my teacher, Sig Haines

“It was the opposite of the many tales we heard as art students, of an artist teacher finishing the student’s canvas. In a reversal, I was asked to finish my teachers canvas.”That quote is part of a profile written by Don Wilkinson in The New Bedford...
Last Summer Rose

Last Summer Rose

During the last few days before the September equinox, this rose bloomed in my yard. The red and white rose hybrid, “Scentimental”, was planted by my great aunt Anna Dunfey. She planted it around 1990 at her home in Newport, Rhode Island, in the Point district. It is...
Memory, Fantasy

Memory, Fantasy

2021, oil on linen, 35×21 in. Painted between May and November, 2021, this canvas illuminates the potential in a canvas painted over a period of time for that canvas to encapsulate the artist’s perception of life events during its making. This painting...
Nature’s Primal Sanity

Nature’s Primal Sanity

2021, oil on panel, 12×12 in. Buy $1000. Deep forest, flowing water, and great leaves of Japanese Coltsfoot (Petasites japonicus) shuddering from the moving air. Peaceful as well as magical, this place harbors birds, bugs and unseen life forms. The filtered light...