STATEMENT

Schooled in Flemish Old Master techniques, I have a great respect and admiration for the traditional systems and applications. Currently, I’m using an expanded palette and a bold, active paint application to portray my realities.

I experience life, with all its subtleties and intricacies, as a direct, perceptible experience. Therefore, my subjects are what I perceive and are all worthy of depiction by virtue of their existence in the world. The act of painting is a series of constant surprises – an experience that is always exhilarating and, at times, even magical. Bringing composition, color, surface and light quality together is my continual struggle and challenge.

AFFILIATIONS

Board Member, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Member, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
Member, Monotype Guild of New England
Member, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Member, Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA

AWARDS AND SHOWS OF NOTE

2009
AN EIGHT-PERSON INVITATIONAL
“A Nest of Robins In Her Hair”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA

FIRST PLACE
“Animal Show 2009” Juried Exhibition
Post Road Art Center, Marlboro, MA

HONORABLE MENTION
“Arts In Bloom 2009” Juried Exhibition
Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA

HONORABLE MENTION
“Endless Possibilities: The Unique Print”
Monotype Guild of New England Juried Exhibition
LynnArts, Inc., Lynn, MA

2008
SOLO EXHIBITION
“Just Sheep”
Acton Library, Acton, MA

JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD
Fifteenth Annual Juried Show
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

2007
A Six-Person Invitational Exhibit
“Animal Imagery”
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

THIRD PLACE
Open Painting Juried Exhibition
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

2006
HONORABLE MENTION
“Arts In Bloom 2006” Juried Exhibition
Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA

2004
FIRST PLACE
“One of a Kind”
Monotype Guild of New England Juried Exhibition
The Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA

2003
HONORABLE MENTION
Tenth Annual Juried Exhibition
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

2002
HONORABLE MENTION
Annual Regional Juried Exhibition
Arts Center at Southborough, Southborough, MA

HONORABLE MENTION
Fifth Annual Juried Art Show
Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA

HONORABLE MENTION
Area Art Association Members Annual Juried Show
Premier Image Gallery, Ashland, MA

2001
HONORABLE MENTION
Fourth Annual Juried Art Show
Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA

HONORARY MENTION, SAKURA AWARD
Open Juried Pastel Exhibition
United Pastelists of America/Oil Pastel Association
Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY

SOLO EXHIBITION
Greenfield College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA

2000
HONORABLE MENTION
Annual Regional Juried Exhibition
Arts Center at Southborough, Southborough, MA

FIRST PLACE
“The Great River: The Connecticut River Valley”
Regional Juried Exhibition 2000
Pioneer Valley Institute, Greenfield, MA

AN EIGHT-PERSON INVITATIONAL
Annual Women’s Show
Whistler Museum of Art, Lowell, MA

1998
TOP AWARD
Eighteenth Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show
Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT

HONORABLE MENTION
First Annual Juried Art Show
Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA