Resume | Statement | Notes ON DEVELOPING AN ARTIST'S VISION Most jobs are made up of work that is given to the employee. As an artist, you are the idea maker, and the one who carries out the idea. What should distinguish each artist's work is their individuality: what they want to express and how they want to express it. Over time, an artist develops a vision, not just what they see, rather how they see it. There is outer vision as in what everyone sees, and there is inner vision, what the individual sees. What creates inner vision is what is evoked in the artist by things, places, people, ideas, etc. After many years of doing art, and honing in on what is important, I realize I have to paint the things and places that are important to me. Even if an orange chair and ottoman - that belongs to someone else - are not important, the feelings of comfort and longing they give are. To feel comfort in a beautiful setting is important. PLACE Place has been of central interest me. The theme of place has given me much to explore. The places I paint seem to have a jumble of things that attract me. Painting them makes me to dig deeper into subject matter and realize more about it and its value to me and others. PIERCE HOUSE I discovered the Pierce House in the early 1990s and when looking for an open, protected place to paint. Thirty acres of land owned by the town of Lincoln, MA, with a beautiful house proved great grounds for exploration. When the new manager, Richard Silver, was moving in he agreed to let me do paintings of the interiors. SERGI FARM What can one say about Sergi Farm, circa 1999. An old rambling line of shacks strung together that attract unique individuals to work and to frequent there. It is another great place for exploration. The people, buildings, plants, gardens, vegetables, still life. The farm continues to give me subject matter. Most of the flowers are from Sergi Farm. ARLINGTON STREET SCENES See Artist's Statement.