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I am an artist living in Auburn, Alabama.
In 1977, I came to Auburn University to study art and received a BA degree in Fine Art. Studying under renown masters like Daniel Greene and John Howard Sanden helped me produce fifteen years of portraits by commission.
After working in the family business for twelve years, I have returned to life as an artist in Auburn, Alabama.
Plein air painting was the jumping off point in my return to painting. Workshops with masters like, Roger Dale Brown in 2009, Gil Dillenger in California on the Northern Coast at age 50, at 62 with Craig Nelson, in The Dolomites and Venice, Italy, and Mark Boedges in a workshop in Louisiana all played a profound roll in molding my plein air painting style. I truly enjoy learning from other artist and collaborating in the artistic journey together.
Painting is how we, as artist, evolve, grow, and share our personal story.
Painting in oil on canvas is my origin. Lately I have enjoyed linen on panel for my surface.
I do not have a limited palette. I love all of the pretty colors but lately I am working with more primary efforts of mixing to create interesting combinations.
I nail down the color key of the painting, color schemes, transparent vs opaque, temperature vs value. I am growing and loving it.
"Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world,
and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy."
_Albert Einstein_
"Lead me to the rock that is higher than I." _Ps. 61:2b_
Intentional Intuitive Art:
"Somewhere between a plethora of rules and complete abstract chaos lives
Intentional Intuitive Art.
This is the creation and representation of our world knowing the rules to break and instinctively working your way through it.
The product of such art reveals a suggestion so real it can not be denied but so full of color and movement and depth and variety with definition against ambiguity that it moves you.
This is my goal.
This is my journey."