I look for designs in nature, textures, light, color, shadows and most of all I like to call attention to scenes that have a message. Rundown buildings, boats, houses and sheds, are of special interest to me. Time is the agent of change; it holds many untold/unfinished stories left within empty decomposing shells. Relics of past events; lives now gone; decaying reminders which form their own beauty as they diminish in time with the wind, rain, snow and sun beating on them. Elements like copper, which over time develop a green patina; wood that reveals core colors under bark patterns partially scraped away; fences that are partially remaining; all these signs of the past are markers like gravestones, to remind us of what was, what might have been and what never will be the same again. Their time has passed.

I am a realist painter; I paint what I see. I like to capture a moment in time of something important to me-whether because of color, form, design, texture, sentiment, challenge, or whatever catches my interest, my inner artistic "eye." I prefer to paint travel venues, landscape scenery, water and boat views, still life arrangements, nature's animals, plants and vegetables, man-made objects all in compositions as I find or make them. I like to "cherry pick" details at times to form a specialized "nuanced realism."

I use a variety of media-oils, ink, acrylics, watercolor, pencil, gouache and photography. Most of my work is in watercolor-a difficult medium to work with. It is not easily controlled-there are accidents that totally ruin a week's or a day's work and there are "happy accidents" that add to the character of the painting, often serving very unexpectedly to be inspirational as well.