I have been making oil paintings for over fifty years, tackling many subjects in that time, from urban architectural street scenes to land and seascapes both real and imagined, and also including full-on abstractions. My style runs the gamut from hard-edged realist and abstract formalism to more gestural expressionism.

I began painting in New England, where I grew up, and have continued to do so while living for long periods on both American coasts and in the desert Southwest.

Across all those locales and styles, what has attracted and interested me most has been the subtle materiality of oil paint itself, which I explore in carefully worked surfaces of calligraphic marks, color harmonies and formal compositions that are as much about that physical medium as any of the subjects or narratives I use it to describe. 

For the past twenty years, I've lived with my educator wife, Dr. Cybele Leverett, and our two sons, William and Fisher, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.