I am a photographer and mixed-media artist.
My first significant experience with the photography was at age twelve when my parents gave me a Brownie Holiday Flash Camera to document my first big out-of-state camping trip.
I used it with fascination and delight.
People and places have a special significance in my creative process. It was my father, an accomplished watercolorist and commercial artist, who first taught me how to look and see through the lens.
He introduced me to the concept of composition and the interplay of color, light and shadow. Encouraging my creativity, he gently critiqued my images always asking, “What is the story here?”
As a student and eventually an architect, I always took pictures all the while working mindfully to elevate the quality of my images to the level of fine art photography.
To that goal, I aspire still.
Truchas NM, a Spanish land grant town frozen in 1952, is dream-like and seemingly floats above the high desert. For over a decade, I visited to study, reflect and paint with my recently deceased dear friend and mentor, Alvaro Cardona-Hine.
His memory and influence are with me always.
I live on the coast of Maine.
A place of amazing beauty and stark contradiction.
Always changing yet ever steady and inspirational.
Increasingly and with age, I appreciate time and how it offers perspective. As a result, both my painting and photography have become more introspective and personal. I work with intent, sometimes abandon, but always enthusiasm. My purpose is to explore, observe, create and open a dialogue through my work. Make of it what you will and what your imagination will allow.
My formal education in art and photography is limited. But it has been greatly enhanced through my association with two groups of very creative Maine artists.
A few years ago I started taking drawing and painting classes in the continuing studies program at MECA+D in Portland, Maine. There I met and painted with a group of six like minded artists. Together we studied abstract painting with artist/instructor, Michel Droge. After completing two courses with Michel, we decided to formalize our collaboration and formed “SEVEN” an Artist Collective. We work independently but meet for periodic critiques and delight in exhibiting our work together.
Click HERE to visit our website: sevenartistscollective.com
Last fall, I joined another creative and well established Portland organization, The Bakery Photo Collective. Here I found a unique combination of artistic and technical collaboration with several very talented and accomplished Maine based photographers. Together they have welcomed and supported me as I work toward the goal of becoming a fine art photographer.
Click HERE to visit our website: bakeryphotocollective.org
