What is it...

that encourages a person who feels, thinks, and sees, to take up a pen or pencil, draw some shapes, only then to find a responsive chord vibrating back from the paper?  As a child, I had a book called The Make It Book.  It was filled with creative ways to turn sticks, stones, paper and glue into cities, gardens or animals.  It powerfully nourished those first flushes of creativity in my life.  Luckily, time and circumstances have provided other enriching influences.

I received my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Studio Art, in 1977 from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut where creativity was encouraged but methodology, less so.  Since then I have been experimenting on my own, fed by two main threads: curiosity about the techniques of the old masters, particularly in their ability to render both pure light and color, and the sublimely transcendent aspects of an open landscape.

In 2003, after decades of work within the printing and graphics industry, multimedia and website design, I was able to end gainful employment(!) and concentrate once again on painting.  For the ten years previous to that decision, as my health (MS) declined and professional activities escalated, it seemed that my painting activities were over for this lifetime.  Thus, it is now with gratitude and relief that I am able to continue these passionate explorations.

Techie Stuff
Visit my blog site, Atelier Artisianal, and participate in an  informative discussion on old techniques.

Indirect Painting and the Mixed Technique...
check out the latest project in a step by step description of the process

The beauty of form...
The importance of a good value study includes the compositional elements: circulation and gradation of light, placement on the page.

The craft of technique...
silverpoint, egg tempera, oil, fresco and encaustic.