Marine

DAVIS ISLAND YACHT CLUB ~ AFTERNOON RENDEZVOUS

  20" x 36"

This small park on the south side of Tampa sits along a bike path that curves around a tiny harbor ending at a very active and passionate sailing yacht club. Besides sailors, this special place welcomes seabirds and water life of all kinds. It is not unusual to see a dolphin or two swim by as pelicans dive for fish among the sailboats. Meanwhile small aircraft are using the runway a couple hundred yards behind your back.

WINTER SUNSET ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD

  20'" x 36"

This magnificent place attracts thousands of summer visitors on any given summer day. But come winter, South Beach transforms into a vast desert of salt and sand, where it is rare to find another human soul, yet common to find your own. As winter tips the Earth away from the sun, the shorter days move the sunset well into the Southern Hemisphere, bathing the beach in a brief warm glow of burnt sienna cooled by shadows of phthalo blue, 

MENEMSHA - 251

  14" x 18"  *Selected  for both the 2019 West Regional and the 2020 18th National ASMA Exhibitions*

The wheelhouse on this tired and proud trawler reflects the waining light at the end of a long day’s work for the Menemsha fishing fleet. From her trails of rust to the decaying gunwale, one can sense the stories that have traveled her decks while carrying out her duties in the harsh environment of the surrounding North Atlantic and Vineyard fishing grounds. 

"BAGUETTE"

  11" x 14"  *Selected by the ASMA for their 16th National Exhibitions in 2014*

This painting began as a love affair with this motor launch. She was moored in Martha’s Vineyard, immediately adjacent to the Steamship Authority ferry slip. I would see her mornings on my 7AM departure to my veterinary job in Falmouth. I always admired her classic lines reflecting the warm morning sunlight in the harbor’s undulating surface. 

"MENEMSHA - NO HURRY"

  14" x 20" *Selected by the ASMA for their 13th National Exhibition in 2004 * 

Martha’s Vineyard has a diversity of geography, people and moods that is quite unique for an island community.  Menemsha is a peaceful fishing village on the Northwest coast that retains the simplicity and serenity of a time long gone.  The flooding tide that flushes Menemsha's protected inner harbor and large saltwater pond with fresh sea water twice a day has slowed this cat to a slow crawl.

"EDGARTOWN REGATTA ~ ROUNDING CAN 3"

  12" x 18"  * First Place Cornwall Arts Alliance Juried Show 2002*