I’m inspired by the way light turns an ordinary object into something extraordinary. Living in the fishing village of Stonington, Maine, I can watch the way light flickers on the harbor and creates phenomenal scenes from one second to the next.
I paint mostly with watercolor because it’s a fluid medium that captures gesture and light. I’m interested in painting fleeting moments, so I take many, many photos with my mobile phone during the course of a day. Perhaps one photo in a hundred suggests a painting.
I painted in my spare time as a journalist in Washington, D.C., where I studied at the Art League School at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va. I also studied with the Art Students League in New York City and Florence, Italy; and at the Deer Isle Artists’ Association.
I learn mostly, though, by studying the watercolors of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and John Yardley.
I’m inspired by the way light turns an ordinary object into something extraordinary. Living in the fishing village of Stonington, Maine, I can watch the way light flickers on the harbor and creates phenomenal scenes from one second to the next.