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Oil Paintings

Alla Prima Poppies

20" x 16"

Alla Prima (Italian; at first attempt) refers to a painting technique where the artist starts and completes a painting in one session. With oil paint it therefore includes layering wet paint into wet paint, while with pastel painting it simply means starting and completing a painting in one, generally short session....

$1,750

Bearded Irises & Friends

36” x 60”

I love the boldness of Iris flowers and this mixture of various Bearded Irises sprang from my imagination. I look at a couple of individual flower pictures to make sure I am staying consistent with the way the plants present themselves, but the collection of colors and positions comes out of my mind’s eye.

$12,000

Cosmos & Black-Eyed Susans

48" x 60"

 
“Cosmos & Black-Eyed Susans” is one of my largest oil & enamel paintings so far as I am confined to nothing wider than 48” when I am picking up canvases as the local art store....

$16,500

Dancing Cosmos #2

16" x 20"

“Dancing Cosmos #2” is one of a series of joyous Cosmos paintings that represent a fantasy of what I was hoping my backyard would look like when I sprinkled about a ½ pound of cosmos seed on my prepared dirt. Unfortunately, that part of the yard doesn’t get enough hours of sunlight per day to allow them to flourish … so they flourished in my imagination!

$1,750

First Frost Imagined #2

36" x 60"

I was painting with a friend who was busy painting some sunflowers from his garden, and I asked him if he could imagine what they will look like directly after the first frost. He laughed at me like I was nuts, so I decided to paint what I had in mind.

$12,000

Forest Falls

36" x 36"

“Forest Falls” is more abstract than many of my paintings, coming strictly from my imagination as I think back to seeing a waterfall within the woods on Mount Riga, in Salisbury CT. My sister and brother-in-law have a cabin on Mt. Riga, and our children (and now grandchildren) have enjoyed visiting “the cabin” since they were born.   

$6,600

Maine Morning

24" x 24"

 “Maine Morning” is a painting I did almost as a demonstration for a friend who asked me how to paint distant mist. I started to show him the way I would handle the task, and then I went on to finish what had started as a “sketch’ with oil paint, plus the use of Liquin. 

$3,200

One Blue Iris

36" x 36"

I started with a dark background, then added some exciting abstract reds and magentas, before getting this One Blue Iris to pop out of the painting.

$7,200

Poppies & Iris

16" x 20"

This time I imagined Poppies & Irises … Purely a dream as these would never grow this well here. (Between my studio and the lake is a hillside where I have tried planting Irises, Cosmos, tons of Wildflowers etc., and none of them last very long because the small hill just doesn’t get enough sun. I keep trying but these paintings all end up coming from my imagination as the real thing is always so sparse.)

$1,750

Poverty Hollow Falls

24" X 18"

I love painting the small waterway down on Poverty Hollow Road, about 5 miles from our home, and there is a waterfall that one needs to walk into the woods to see. I have painted it in each of the different seasons and this is a small oil of the scene in autumn.

$2,400

Anemone Frenzy

36" x 48"

Anemone Frenzy” is one of my favorite Oil & Enamel paintings because of the feeling I have that I could just get delightfully tangled up in all of that activity and color.....

$9,900

Blue Chicory & Queen Anne’s Lace

36" x48"

“Blue Chicory & Queen Anne’s Lace”  I love painting the wild poppy scenes throughout much of Western Europe, especially in France and Italy, BUT, I am also excited to paint many of the wild flower groupings that we have here in Northeastern U.S.  A case in point is this beautiful combination of Blue Chicory (Blue Cornflower) and Queen Anne’s Lace that often times line the highways in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Again, this Abstract Impressionist style painting was completed predominantly with painting sticks (for dripping) and a palette knife, and then some small brush work for the chicory leaves.

$9,900

Dance of the Cone Flowers

30" x 40"

“Dance of the Cone Flowers” is one of my “Abstract Impressionist” paintings where I am attempting to capture the feeling I had when I came upon some purple cone flowers in a wildflower field. I think someone must have purposely strewn the seeds there but the tangle of grasses and other flowers seemed quixotic and I loved them.

$6,600

Dancing Cosmos #3

20" x 20"

“Dancing Cosmos #2” is another of a series of joyous Cosmos paintings that represent a fantasy of what I was hoping my backyard would look like when I sprinkled about a ½ pound of cosmos seed on my prepared dirt. Unfortunately, that part of the yard doesn’t get enough hours of sunlight per day to allow them to flourish … so they flourished in my imagination!

$2,200

Fishing in the Morning Mist

48" x 36"

I like to walk early in the morning along the lake that we live on, and I often marvel that the fishermen are out on the water even before daybreak. As peaceful as it is for me on land, I can only imagine the serenity this guy was experiencing alone with his quiet thoughts.

$9,900

German Floral

30" x 40"

“German Floral” is another Abstract Impressionism style painting that came from some pictures I took while spending a month in Munich, trying to immerse myself in the German language.....

$6,600

Nantucket Blaze

40" x 40"

 
“Nantucket Blaze” is a second painting that came from my trip to a Collector’s home in Nantucket MA and this painting was completed entirely with tube paint and palette knives. I felt that the palette knife enabled me to carve the grasses out of the thick paint impasto I was applying. Again, the fall colors from the wild blueberry bushes in the dunes were spectacular.

$8,800

One Red Poppy

40" x 40"

“One Red Poppy” This is the painting that Peter Hastings Falk saw where he wrote the wonderful critique found on the Home page.

$8,800

Poppies Galore

40" x 40"

 
“Poppies Galore” was painted upon my return from a trip to Provence where I saw this field of poppies and where I completed a small pastel painting on location. In this much larger painting I tried to show the depth perception by dripping paint for the closer grasses and smudging the paint with a paper towel to blur the grasses further away....

$8,800

Provence Back Light

48" x 48"

“Provence Back Light” I took a group of 16 other artists to Provence to paint with me several years back, and we painted in a number of locations that I had painted in the past, This painting grew from a much smaller one done in the field.

$12,500

Anemones and Friends

36" x 48"

“Anemones and Friends” is an abstract impressionist painting of some of my favorite flowers (Anemones) which inhabit my subconscious.

$9,900

Bunches of Irises

40" x 40"

“Bunches of Irises”  is from a picture taken of the garden in my son’s next door neighbor’s yard in Tubingen Germany. My wife and I were visiting this past spring and these flowers looked spectacular! I later painted these back in my Connecticut studio from a photograph, and using sticks to drip the paint for stems and grasses, and with a palette knife to carve in the iris blooms.

$8,800

Dancing Cosmos #1

20" x 20"

“Dancing Cosmos #1” is one of several Cosmos related paintings I have completed and I am sure I will paint more in the future. I love the color, style and structure of the cosmos flowers and plants as they make me feel their freedom as they sway with every little breeze. I also love that once they begin flowering in July, they continue with their burst of color throughout the next 2-3 months.

$2200

Dancing Lilies

36" x 36"

“Dancing Lilies” is an example of my painting simply with tube/oil paint and palette knives, and I love how this tool provides me with an added freedom of expression, as I carve and shape the paint on the canvas.....

$7,200

Fleur Rouge de Soleil

36" x 36"

“Fleur Rouge de Soleil” is a more abstract version of what comes out of my imagination when I just want to depict flowers in the sun. I can imagine this painting in a room with large windows and lots of natural light!

$6,600

Giverny Garden

48" x 36"

I have visited Monet’s Farmhouse and gardens on a couple of occasions, and it seems that there is color in almost any month. How much fun would it have been to have had Claude himself walk us around his “outdoor studio.”

$9,900

Nantucket Dunes

36" x 60"

“Nantucket Dunes” is the result of a trip I took to Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. I had the very good fortune of having a couple from Connecticut, who have been Collectors of my paintings for 20+ years, offer their beautiful home in Nantucket to me and my wife for free, as a gesture of kindness and friendship....

$12,000

Poppies & Daisies

20" x 20"

This time I imagined Poppies & Daisies...Purely a dream as these would never grow this well on my shaded, lakefront property. Sometimes I just feel like putting down a lot of color!

$2,200

Poppies in Provence

36" x 36"

I took a group of artist friends to Provence for an 8-day painting trip and while I sketched, painted and took lots of pictures during the trip, this painting was dripped purely from my imagination...ala Jackson Pollock.

$7,200

Provence Misty Morning

36" x 36"

“Provence Misty Morning” I have painted in Provence on numerous occasions and this “painting” came to me in my dreams once I returned from one of those trips. It practically painted itself once I got into my studio.

$6,600

Pastel

14" x 20"

Apple Blossoms, Alla Prima

“Apple Blossoms, Alla Prima” This little pastel was completed recently as a painting demonstration for a local art organization. I had painted something similar on a return trip thru upstate New York, when I had been struck by all of the Apple Blossoms I was seeing in early spring, and then when I was called as a last minute replacement for a fellow artist who couldn’t do the planned demonstration, I used this idea for my one and 1/2 hour painting demo.

$2,100

24" x 18"

Essex Conversation

“Essex Conversation”   I have painted numerous times in the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts, north of Boston, with one of my best friends Frank Federico. Each time that we returned from painting in Gloucester, Ipswich or Rockport we would stop at his favorite Seafood restaurant and this was the view as we talked about our recent painting exploits.

$3,200

12" x 18"

Front Daylight

“Front Daylight” A few years ago we had one of those Nor’Easters that New England is known for where we got 12 inches of snow in a day. Around midnight everything cleared and the moon came out, so I took a picture and painted that small pastel the next day. As I was working on that painting, I took a break for lunch and saw this same scene at noon – on the day after the storm – and the sun was shining brightly on the new snow. So I painted that scene as well!

$1,600

18" x 24"

Les Baux de Provence

“Les Baux de Provence” I completed this small painting on location when visiting several towns in Provence with my buddy Frank Federico. I later came back to this, and to several other painting locations with a group of artists

$3,200

18" x 24"

Shephaug River

“Shephaug River”  I was out walking along the Shephaug River in Roxbury CT. just looking for something to grab me and this bend in the river supplied me with just that inspiration. (You can see “Roxbury Barn” in the Sold section of this site and that was another inspiring location from the same day of painting.)

$3,200

18" X 24"

Through the Flower Thicket

“Through the Flower Thicket” Near the “shack” on Agawam Beach, Wareham MA.

$3,200

14" x 20"

Bay Farm Sunset, Duxbury

“Bay Farm Sunset, Duxbury”  My  mom passed away recently (at a wonderful age of 95) and a friend asked if I might paint something that people from her home town of Duxbury MA. Might make prints of, in her memory. I painted “Bay Farm Sunset, Duxbury” in her memory as this scene was about a mile from my childhood home.

$2,100

18" x 24"

Etretat Cliffs

“Etretat Cliffs”  This painting came from a wonderful painting trip I took to the Normandy coast. I stayed at an artist friend’s home in Hautot St. Sulpice, along with 7-8 other artists from various countries (Poland, Spain, Portugal and different parts of France). Dinners were as much fun as the painting because I reveled in sitting at a table of 12-14 artists, speaking 4-5 languages at once.  We twice went out to Etretat to paint and this is one of three paintings I completed of that little village.

$3,200

12" x 18"

Giverny Foot Bridge

“Giverny Foot Bridge” I have been to Monet’s Gardens on three different occasions and I have both painted and sketched there, and I have taken pictures to paint from back in my studio. This small painting was actually an hour and ½ painting demonstration for a local Art organization.

$1,600

18" x 24"

Manhattan Bridge Over Empire State

“Manhattan Bridge Over Empire State” I was walking with my daughter and future son-in-law (both artists) in Brooklyn where they lived at the time, and I was struck not only by the way the light was hitting these buildings; but when I looked closer I could see the Manhattan Bridge dwarfing the Empire State building. In the years since I painted this I have noticed a number of other artists who have been attracted to the same exact location.

$3,200

24” x 18”

The Footbridge

This little wooden footbridge can be found in the marsh of Agawam Beach in Wareham MA. (just before the Bourne Bridge on Cape Cod) and it is a scene I used for my first video painting lesson. We were there many times to visit my grandmother when my siblings and I were just kids.

$3,200

18" X 24"

Wildflower Hedges

“Wildflower Hedges” Again painting near my brother Brian’s “shack” in Agawam Beach (Wareham MA.), these wildflowers were in the brush on the way to the beach.

$3,200

18” x 24”

Carter’s Sunflowers

A friend from my hometown (Duxbury MA., where I grew up) sent me this picture as a potential inspiration for a painting so I completed this in pastel, as I felt that I could quickly capture the emotion of the wild sunflowers as they might move with a slight breeze.

$3,200

32" x 36"

Ferris Farm Idyll

“Ferris Farm Idyll”  Ferris Creamery is I believe the only working dairy still left in Fairfield County CT., and we have the pleasure of living just 2 miles from their delicious ice cream. I have painted on location there many times over the years and this is the scene that I see when I am sitting eating my favorite flavor, “302 Chocolate Moo”. (The dairy is on Route 302 in Newtown, CT.)

$8,800

18" x 24"

Late Afternoon

 “Late Afternoon”  I have probably completed 30 or more paintings of this beautiful little Poverty Hollow area just beyond the Newtown/Redding town line and this scene was captured in late afternoon when the shadows were becoming quite long.

$3,200

18" x 24"

Rod & Paul's Irish Pub

Two friends returned from a trip to Ireland with a bunch of wonderful pictures and memories. This Pub was one of their favorites and I asked them if I could paint their memory.

$3,200

24" X 24"

The White Birch Tree

“The White Birch Tree” I was walking with my daughter and her family as we followed my wife and son and I took the picture that was used for this painting inspiration. After completing the painting I realized that it needed some additional light to draw the viewer into the painting, so I added the white birch tree!

$4,200

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