I am a landscape painter.  I was looking for a hobby to take my mind off business and found the perfect answer. I discovered that when I paint, it is impossible to think about anything else. Now that I have retired, I devote most of my free time to my painting avocation. I am not attempting to transcend to a higher plane... I don't have any insight as to the meaning of.... anything.  I just enjoy the process of interpreting what my eyes and my mind see.  I usually make hasty sketches and make some color notations of the subject matter and refer to the many photographs I take when I begin the painting in my studio. Sometimes it comes easily, but that is a rarity.  Most often it is a long process of trial and error... one correction after another.  Quite often I will work on a painting months, even years, after it has been "finished." I am striving to loosen up my painting by leaning more towards an impressionistic approach to my representative style.

AWARDS

I gathered up my nerve and entered my first show/competiton in 2003 and to my surpise, my painting received an Honorable Mention Award.  Since then, I have been lucky enough to have recieved  numerous awards in local art shows/competitions sponsored by central New York art associations:  Fulton Art Association, Art Association of Oswego, Central New York Art Guild, Salmon River Art Association, Syracuse Council For The Arts

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Best of Show Awards (1)

People’s Choice Awards (2) 

1st Place Awards (6)

 2nd Place Awards (7) 

3rd Place Awards (1)

  4th Place Awards (1)

 Honorable Mention Awards (15)