representation
|| education || selected
exhibitions || publications || affiliations
Weather,
plants, light; landscape painting has been the primary focus of my art for over
three decades. I find beauty, peace and energy in the rural areas where I live.
Much of my garden and landscape work is completed out of doors - usually in one
sitting a few hours long - en plein air. I am intensely interested in the history
as well as the present agricultural uses of the fields and forests surrounding
me. That said, my paintings often do not show human presence on the land although
I sometimes include traces of the farmer's work; fence lines, plowed fields, structures
or stock. I am less concerned with details and more intrigued by shapes, colors,
textures and the moods these evoke. I love tangle and chaos and the complexity
of the world outside my studio.
I
am currently represented by The Butternut Gallery, 204 Church St., Montrose, Pennsylvania,
570.278.4011
Education
| 2011 | Color
and Light - Sally Strand - Vermont | | 2010 | Painting
the Figure in the Landscape - Kim English - Alabama |
| 2007 & 2009 | Master
Class with Duane Wakeham Albuquerque IAPS | | 2003 | Pastel
Painting with Susan Ogilvie in North Carolina | | 2003 | Pastel
Painting with Lorenzo Chavez in Tucson | | 2002 | Pastel
Painting with Doug Dawson in Florida | | 2000
| Pastel Painting with Jane
Shoenfeld in New Mexico | | 1979 |
Pastel Painting with Albert Handel in New York | | 1966-1968 | Samuel
Fleisher Institure of Art Philadelphia | | 1965-1968 | Moore
College of Art Philadelphia |
Selected
Exhibitions
| 2010 | Shoes-writer/artist
collaborative at Butternut Gallery -October |
| ongoing | Landfillart.org
- web based worldwide exhibit and upcoming book |
| 2010 | 3
Artists Paint Views of Susquehanna County at the Butternut Gallery- August. |
| 2009* | Reflections
of a Wanderer, Orazio Salati Gallery, Binghamton NY , November. |
| 2009 &
2010 | Focus,
Butternut Gallery in Montrose, PA. juried regional. |
| 2009 | Marquis
Art & Frame, Scranton, two person exhibit, April/May. |
| 2008 | Plein
Air Festival of Door County, Wisconsin, invitational. |
| 2008*** | Art
in the Barn; Lands at Hillside Farms, Shavertown, PA juried. First Place Painting
Award. | | 2008 | Wayne
Plein Air Exhibit; Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, juried |
| 2008 | Recent
Landscapes and Wishful Thinking; Butternut Gallery, Montrose, invitational |
| 2008 | Air
Light & Color; Paintings from the Pennsylvania En Plein Air Society at
the Wyoming County Courthouse, Tunkhannock. |
| 2007 | Trees;
A Collaborative Exhibit of Writing and Visual Art, Butternut Gallery, Montrose,
PA, invitational | | 2007 | Around
the Barn, EMCA Gallery Tunkhannock, PA, invitational |
| 2007 | Art
Soup II, Lizza Fine Art Studio, Tunkhannock, invitational |
| 2006*** | Images
of Susquehanna County, Montrose, juried |
| 2006* | Tangled
Gardens: Moonlit Fields, Orazio Salati Gallery Binghamton, NY |
| 2005 | Serene
& Free, Marquis Gallery , Scranton |
| 2005 | Drawn
Together, The ART Mission, Binghamton, NY |
| 2005 | Scapes,
Louisa Melrose Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ | | 2005 | EMCA
Special Edition, Endless Mountains Council of the Arts Gallery, Tunkhannock,
PA | | 2005 | Glenburn
Township Art Show, Glenburn Municipal Township Gallery, Glenburn, PA |
| 2005 | Trading
Spaces - Cooperative Gallery 213 - Binghamton, NY |
| 2004* | A
Year of Salt Springs State Park, Franklin Forks, PA |
| 2004*** |
Images of Susquehanna County
Montrose, PA,
juried | | 2003 | The
Landscape Artist, invitational
The Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY |
| 2003 |
Pennsylvania En Plein Air Society
members
show, Tunkhannock, PA | | 2003 |
Reflections of the Mountains
Catskill Mountain
Foundation, Hunter, NY | | 2002-2004 | Art
& Jazz on the Ave
Scranton, PA, juried invitational |
| 2003 | Too
Soon For Spring? and 'Scapes
Louisa Melrose Gallery, Frenchtown,
NJ | | 2002-2003 | Ninth
Annual National Juried Exhibition
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT |
| 2002 | Fourth
Annual Juried Painting Exhibition
Louisa Melrose Gallery, Frenchtown,
NJ | | 2002
| Pennsylvania
Plein Air Society Members Show
Forty Fort Mtg. House, Forty Fort, PA |
| June, July
& August 2002 | A.P.A.
Fine Art Gallery
Milford, PA |
| 2001 |
Small Works
Endless Mountains Council of the Arts
Gallery
Tunkhannock, PA | | August
-Sept 1999 | Two
Paths
Exhibit Wyoming County Courthouse Gallery Tunkhannock, PA |
| June-July
1999 | Catskill
Botanicals
Hunter, NY | |
March 1999 |
Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators
Philadelphia Flower Show-Philadelphia,
PA | | September
1998* | Summer
Flowers and Botanicals at the Tudor Book Shop Art Gallery in Clarks summit,
PA | |
March-April 1998* |
Paintings from a Secluded Garden
Penn State Worthington, Scranton,PA
| |
May-August 1997 | Homage
to Matisse
Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA |
| June-July 1996,1997 |
Art Wild
Contemporary Gallery, Marywood College,
Scranton, PA | |
April 1995 | AFA
Gallery
514 Lackawanna Ave. Scranton, PA |
| October 1994 |
Invitational Art Show
Waverly, PA |
| August 1994,1990,
1987*, 1984 | Dorflinger
Suydam Invitational
White Mills, PA |
| March 1993 |
Jewish Community Center
Scranton, PA |
| Nov. 1989*
| Hefft House
Gallery
Shavertown, PA | |
June 1987 | Women’s
Resource Center & Doris Fordham Gallery
Marywood College, Scranton
PA | |
February 1986*& April 1982* |
Doris Fordham Gallery
Clarks Summit, PA |
| October
1985* | Paintings
from a Woodland Garden
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia,
PA | |
August 1982 | Paintings
by Contemporary American Artists
Marworth, Waverly, PA |
Publications
| Horticulture |
15 articles, illustrated with multiple full color illustrations:
May, June 1987; January, March, June, November 1988; March 1989; February, November,
December 1990; March, April, June/July, August/September 1991; November 1992 12
full color illustrations for Well Chosen Garden-November 1988 through January
1990 | | Woman’s
Day | 15
full color garden illustrations: Mar. 20, 1990; May1, 1991; April,1992; April
6, 1993; April 5, 1995; April 2, 1996; March 13, 1997; March 10, May 12, 1998;
March 9, April 4, 1999, April 1, 2000, March 13, 2001, March 12, 2002, March 9
2004. | | Garden
Style | April/May
2001 | | The
Gardener | October/November
2001 |
Affiliations
I
am a signature member of International
Plein Air Painters and Landscape
Artists International. I hold an associate membership in the Pastel
Society of America.
For
thirteen years, I was director of the Artists' Open House Weekend: Studio Tours
in Susquehanna County, as well as being a participating artist.
For three years I was an invited participant in The Central Park Paintout in New
York City. In 2008 I was invited to participate in Door County Plein Air Festival
in Wisconsin and juried into the Wayne PA Plein Air Festival. |
