On one side of my family my blood contains the DNA of at least 3 generations of New England deep water sea captains. On the other side of my family was a China Trade tea merchant. My marine paintings are an attempt to visit a place in time which no longer exists and bring to life what I can never actually see in my lifetime. My work as an artist currently focuses on paintings of sailing schooners built and sailed from Gloucester and Cape Ann, Massachusetts in the 19th century. My choice of color, composition and style reflects the conventions of that period, but I strive to add something personal and original to each painting.
I prefer to paint objects which required exceptional skill and aesthetic judgment to create, as opposed to objects which required none. Pieces of silver, glass, and paintings and other objects that people leave behind for the next generation to inherit tell something about what they valued, where they traveled, how they struggled or succeeded. As a former museum object restorer it was necessary for me to learn how to paint the texture of objects made of stone, wood and metal, and ceramic, which were broken. This was on the job training for becoming a painter of Still Life.
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