This selection of still lifes represent an ongoing record of the small collection of flowers, fruit and objects around the house that engage me when I paint day-to-day. The selection evolves over the seasons as the flowers come and go, and the selection of fruit changes. They constitute a visual record of both what I am examining, and the sensitivity of my examination.

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Views of Portugal

These paintings are of my spring trip to the southern shore of Portugal. Its dramatic coastline reflects the unstoppable force of the Atlantic pounding the unmovable coast of Europe. It is a rugged country where the warming days of May have brought out the color of the countryside and created a contrast of the strong colors of the sky and ocean with the warm colors of the landscape. I intended to memorialize the visual sense of our walks there with the pictorial language that I use in Charlottesville.