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SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS:

Annual Traditional Artists Show 2023 & 2024

AOY Art Center 9th, 11th & 12th Annual Juried Shows

Wayne Art Center “Attraction to Abstraction” 2021

Philadelphia Water Color Society 118th International Exhibition of Works on Paper 2018

Garden State Watercolor Society Annual Juried Show 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 (signature member)

Annual Byers Bucks Fever Art Exhibition 2010, 2012, 2014

Philadelphia Sketch Club's Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings 2008, 2011, 2012

21st, 28th, 29th & 31st Annual Ellarslie Open

Coryell Gallery 22nd, 25th, 27th thru 32nd Annual Juried Art Exhibitions

Phillips' Mill 71st, 80th, 82nd, 89th & 93rd Annual Juried Exhibitions

Artsbridge Juried Art Exhibits, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012—15

AWARDS:

1st Place - Abstract, January 2022 Boldbrush Painting Competition

3rd Place - Abstract, July 2020 BoldBrush Painting competition

3rd Place “Small But Mighty” Garden State Watercolor Society online member’s show 2020

Holbein Materials Award: Garden State Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition 2017

Utrecht Award for Excellence in Painting at Ellarslie Open XXIX, 2011

Best Small Landscape: Artsbridge Member's Show 2010

Honorable Mention: NOVA Galaxy 2009

Honorable Mention: Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery "Creative Flow", 2009

Juror's Award: Perkins Center for the Arts Juried Watercolor Exhibit, 2009

Honorable Mention: Coryell Gallery's 27th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, 2007

First Place in Oil/Acrylic: Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery's Juried Exhibition, 2006

Honorable Mention: Tinicum Art Festival, 2002

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

While walking in nature, sitting quietly experiencing the sounds, the air, the light, the colors of our natural world as they change with the seasons … this is what inspires me to paint. At one time, this was expressed in representational paintings in oil and watercolor. Over the past few years, my expression of nature has evolved to an intuitive abstraction of the things I see and feel. Now using oil and cold wax, I have traded my brushes for scraping tools, brayers and other things to make marks and apply paint using shape, color and texture. My work starts with a loose intention that is allowed to develop with no preconceived idea of the end result. It is a process of experimentation and discovery with an element of surprise. The medium of oil and cold wax allows a building of layers that are later scraped, incised or lifted to reveal the history of previous layers. I become mindful of the opposing elements of contrast/nuance, simplicity/complexity, and gesture/refinement to create balance as the painting is resolved. This process is what drives me. It forces a constant engagement that leads to unforeseen and serendipitous passages. I am able to suggest a story or feeling with a bit of mystery left to the viewer’s interpretation.