Our love...Maggie...always watching me paint...

Albert is watching me all the time I am painting..

This is done to express 'out with the rascals!'

very bright colors...playing with shadows

did you lay that??

greens/greens/greens

These paintings are all acrylic...I am working hard to gain spontaneity to describe the landscapre...all are on 16x20 canvases

This painting is on a 20"x40" acrylic painting done for my dear friends in Louisville Dan and Beth...they wanted something that was rolling and light and buttery with mostly warm colors and a shock of orange....this photo is not quite as vibrant as the REAL thing...hope they like it!

I did this painting also as a choice for my Philadelphia friends...also in acrylic on a 30"x40" canvas...My intent was to paint flowers that expressed the passion and joy that surrounds creative people...the reference photo for this painting was from a trip to Butchart Gardens in Victoria Canada---55 acreas of stunning flower show...I took my children there over 15 years ago in a camper...even children 'got' the magnificience of the place.

What a fun painting this was to do for my Philadelphia friends. She was done in acrylics on a 30"x40" canvas...a double lily...lilies have many symbolic meanings..mostly friendship and devotion...it is the May birth flower as well as the 30th wedding anniversary flower...so I was thinking of more than matching a sofa...I was thinking of the celebration of life and love and friendship.

triptyck in acrylic each 30"x60" fun

Fall in Paradise

This photo does not really do the painting justice...meaning the reds are very different from each other..that is what I was going with and in person..well...it is much more vibrant...red is my favorite color to paint with..it adds such passion but I usually dont bring out the red til the end because I can get carried away so this one I just flat-out started with the red...also in acrylic 4'x7'.

Silver Fox gallery represents my work in downtown Hendersonville on Main Street...this is another of the series 4'x7'...in acrylic...if you notice three circles "appear" in each of this series I think it must be the spiritual Father/Son/Holy Mother that seeks expression..I LOVE this and loved doing it...my process is that I paint these canvases two at a time propped against the garage doors. I do two at a time to let the paint dry while I work on the next one...this allows me to add layers which I now am getting pretty efficient at with the Golden GAC 100 as well as the gloss gel..this has added a whole new dimension to the paints and I just am having so much fun....

We just got back from Vegas with the all six kids---WOW! Tom creates a charity golf tournament every two years and invites his friends and so far they have raised over $4million and it all goes to children charities. I am so in awe of Tom's continued commitment to making the lives better for children...so this is what I do...and all the proceeds of my paintings go to the Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County. Last year my efforts produced $60,000 revenue---this year--not so good...but I am still painting like a fool and am so excited about these abstract BEINGS...like it is really them painting themselves while I hold on to the brush..this is also 4'x7'...I just put 18 paintings at our favorite restaurant FLIGHTS in downtown Hendersonville...one a huge six panel 15'x5' abstract with a floral feeling (I"M telling you they paint themselves once I get out of the way...)all the paintings at Flights are for sale...

This is my second attempt at these huge ones...4'x7' canvas with acrylics...it actually has deeper colors than what came out here in the photo but you get the gist of where I was going...

So now I am experimenting with my abstract language...I get so excited with these 'happenings' as I just begin with large strokes/colors I like and then the painting will start to 'speak' to me...this one is done with acrylics on a 4'x7' stretched canvas