In October 2023, the City of Hallowell, Maine held the ribbon-cutting ceremony for my 700 square foot public mural of Hallowell’s long history, with Governor Mills, Mayor LaPointe and Representative Shagoury as noteworthy speakers.

My large murals can be found on walls from here in Maine to Washington D.C. and Seattle. Kennebec, is a 40-foot, Percent for Art mural at the Superior Court in the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta, Maine.

I began making my income from my art at the Portland Sidewalk Art show, way back when. When living in Guadalajara as a young artist, the best advice was from a retired Disney draftsman, “Draw, draw, draw.” I have never stopped.

I love the tactile quality of paint, buttery, thin, soggy or dry—the way your fingers sense the feel and weight of the paint through the brush to the texture of the canvas or paper.

A blank canvas is like a stage, the figures, my players. It’s a personal realm I can transform with paint. I’m not a fantasy artist, though. My paintings are echoes, or resonances of the real world I walk through.

Born in Maine, I can claim that much coveted native status but, in truth, I lived away a lot. My bones are solid New England but my blood carries the dust of years living in Mexico…and a bit of rust from most of a decade in the Pacific Northwest.

…can’t imagine not painting. It’s my Ishmael quirk, keeping me from “methodically knocking people’s hats off”…high time to get to my easel.

My work has been exhibited in galleries across Maine and Massachusetts, in exhibits in Seattle, New York City, and Guadalajara, Mexico, and at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art. My illustrations are in books published by Hearst Books, William Morrow, Greenwillow Books, Random House and DownEast Books of Maine. I am a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society. A few notable commissioned portraits include golf pro Gary Woodland, Elsie and William Viles, and Chief Justice Daniel Wathen which hangs in the courthouse in Maine’s state capital.