The theme of ‘intersection’ plays an important part in my reflective and artistic process. It’s Biblical for that matter! Life and death, heaven and earth, sun and moon, sea and sky… When I was a student of printmaking at the Portland School of Art (MECA, the year I graduated in 1993), my professor Jim Cambronne emphasized to me the importance of seeing the intersections. I guess he did a good job instilling that in me! Intersections have fascinated me ever since! The boundaries, borders, edges are where one entity is delineated and in relationship to the other. Irish theologian and author, Anne Primavesi in her book Sacred Gaia - Holistic Theology and Earth System Science (2000) unfolds how our boundaries define and interrelate one to another. I highly recommend it!

Along the coastal waters of Maine, I am drawn into observing the dynamic intersection of earth, sea, and sky. The ever-shifting tides reveal and obscure the rugged rocks and sandy shoreline, while the sky descends into the depths to reveal complex currents and surface striations.

Sky Nebula

This is the upper half of the painting that I sawed in two. The other half became Bucolic River. Originally, it was part of a river scene. Then it became a space nebula with dark swirly heavenly qualities. Still wasn’t working… Then one day I’m driving along the highway and I look up ahead at the sky which is BREATHTAKING! It looks as though a portal has opened up and a pale sea green world exists just beyond the entrance. WOW! Don’t worry, I was still driving carefully (enough).

I seared it into my memory so that I could take up the brush as soon as I arrived at the studio. And voila!! 2007 oil on canvas. 27” x 35” $800 sold.

Foamy Rocky Waters

The lacy waters looking down from Portland Head Light can mesmerize me endlessly, like the endlessness of the ocean itself. I wanted to express this delicate interplay of surface and depth with the rugged rocks. My original inspiration is from my old black and white photo file when I was double majoring in Printmaking and Photography at the Portland School of Art in 1990 (now the Maine College of Art - MECA).

But life’s circumstances forced me to work more, consequentially forcing me to choose one major and it was printmaking that won. Ahhh, the good ol’ days of developing actual film (lol) and the excitement/expectation/disappointment sometimes accompanying the process. And the irony is that now I paint…

2018. 5” x 5” oil on panel. $85. sold.