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"Late Winter Hike" is Oil on wood panel with palette knife and a limited color palette. It is part of my Winter in New England series along trails around Wachusett Mtn in Central MA.

My career as a professional artist and fine arts educator has been the primary focus of my life for almost 40 years. As a contemporary landscape painter, my work is a conscious play of mood, light and color, but as a native New Englander, raised and rooted in the diverse landscapes of the area, a painting means more. Each location is an encounter with the land, the trees, the water and the atmosphere, that have always given me a sense of connection and order. When a location intrigues and inspires me, I will paint the scene into a series using a range of themes, experimenting and searching to learn more about the natural threads that tie the landscape together with complexity, subtlety and more importantly-balance. I am always...