ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My first  paintings were, loosely speaking, cityscapes. Many of them were groupings of stores that lined a boardwalk in the small seaside town where I grew up. My concentration was on light or color or shape, not on the objects themselves. And yet, those shops, on quiet gray mornings (especially off-season), conveyed a Hopperesque melancholy that has stuck with me. I have since moved more abstract, but on more than one occasion a color is still sand, water, boardwalk, or a shadow found on a rolled-down awning.

Untitled, 1981, oil on canvas, 12 x 18“

Moorlyn, 1980, oil on canvas, 12 x 18”

OC, 2003, oil on canvas, 50 x 48”