Artwork
Artwork
Beginning in 2007, I took up painting again, as a kind of tribute to my mother Jenny, who had died that same year. My parents were both professional artists, and during my growing-up years art was very much "in the air" at our house.
When I graduated high school in 1966, I was torn between majoring in music and art at university. Music won out--in retrospect perhaps it was a wrong move.
I started taking classes at the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC) in the autumn of 2007. Although the instructional level is often geared towards the beginning student, I found the classes gave me the right "push" to get me going and keep me productive.
Some of the BBAC instructors I've enjoyed in the past include Todd Burroughs, Gail Mally-Mack, Clinton Snider and Roumen Boudev.
After working in acrylic for many years, I recently switched (back) to oil paints. Although oil takes a long time to dry, making overpainting difficult at times, there are other advantages. Oil is much more fluid than acrylic and is free of acrylic's biggest headache, that of drying one or two shades darker than when wet. Blending in oil is also much better. One strategy I adopted on two recent paintings, 'Japanese Breakfast' and 'Kyoto Street Scene', was to paint part of the painting in acrylic but use oil for the face and figures, where the ability to blend was important. Starting with "Assirat" (2019), all my paintings have been done entirely in oil.
Goethe-Haus, Weimar (2024)
Havana (2023)
Amsterdam Duck (2023)
Dutch Kitchen (2023)
Amsterdam (2023)
Silver Pavillion, Kyoto (2022)
Cologne (2022)
Strasbourg II (2021)
Strasbourg (2021)
Mimi and Kai (2021)
Making Okonomiyaki, Hiroshima (2021)
Haarlem (2020)
At the Deer Park, Nara (2020)
Nara, Japan (2020)
Assirat (2019)
Kyoto Street Scene (2019)
Kiyomizu-dera (2018)
Japanese Breakfast (2018)
Walking Toward Heian Shrine, Kyoto (2017)
On the Charles Bridge, Prague (2017)
Lemonade Stand, Prince Edward Island (2016)
Farmer's Market, Croatia (2016)
Montevideo II (2015)
Palermo (2014)
Montevideo (2014)
Jenny at the Guitar (2014)
Ann Hathaway's Cottage (2014)
Lake District IV (2014)
Lake District III (2013)
Reggie's Flowers (2013)
Sheila's Cottage, Ambleside (2011)
Hadrian's Wall (2011)
Lake District II (2011)
Lake District I (2010)
East Sawry, Lake District (2010)
Nude Study I (2010)
Nude Study II (2010)
Stained Glass (with Reggie) - 1985
