During my senior year, I was delighted and honored to be selected to show some of my work at the Fogler Library at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.  I chose works I had completed for my classes during my final year at the University.  

Coastal Interaction: Water Power

Coastal Interaction:  Sunburn

Two of the paintings, Coastal Interactions, were developments on a theme of familiar places.  For most of my life, even in different places, the coast was a familiar element.  The two paintings reflect the different ways location can impact how we relate to similar situations.  Water Power demonstrates the involved interaction we are likely to have in a warmer climate, while Sunburn illustrates the contemplative approach we tend to prefer in the colder, more rugged setting of the north. 

Mists of Depression:  Emergence

The two Mists of Depression pieces are using the landscape to illustrate a frame of mind.  Both are intentionally ambiguous as to whether the sailboat is escaping or entering the mist:  the viewer gets to decide according to mood and moment and chosen level of interaction.  Is the viewer a bystander watching the sailor weave in and out of the mist?  Or does the viewer identify with the sailor?  

The four drawings are from a nature drawing class-- three are plein air works (yes, the seagull posed!) and the owl was drawn from a museum display.  

Mists of Depression:  Grounded

Bates Owl

Clyde (detail)

Monhegan Light I

Monhegan Light II