Paint by Nature

On Mount Desert Isle there are wonderful paths that roam all through the park.  They serve as ways to get places and as destinations from wh...

Behind one of the barn buildings at Coggeshell farm is this marvelous old coop or pen,  I could have worked with this in so many ways but th...

At the two century old Coggeshell farm here in Rhode Island there are a number of outbuildings that wear their age and function like mossy o...

This painting shows some of the wonderful and colorful complexity that has grown on the rocks and debris at the water's edge along the n...

At Bar Harbor the rocks that tumble into the ocean are so dramatic and powerful for me.  Every few steps there seems to be another opportuni...

Near where we live here in Rhode Island there is a historical farm (Coggeshell Farm) still run as if it was pre-industrial with all of it...

This gnarled old tree high up on a mountain was a trunk found by my wife's brother in one of his many treks.  I worked with the shapes o...

Hidden deep in back of a neighborhood was this marvelous creek with it's undisturbed banks.  I was struck by the jewels that were the fa...

This image evokes such a sense of untouched nature for me.  I painted the moose into the shot because we had seen one earlier in our hiking ...

Again, Bar Harbor is a place of such varied and breathtaking views and sights.  I am particularly struck by the caligraphy of the rocks and ...

This is one of my favorite images because of the incredible shapes, the flow of the shapes and the wonderful colors I was able to coax out a...

In  this image I really worked to bring out the layers of lichen and moss that were slowly growing their way up this tree.  Simplifying the ...