My work consists of acrylic on canvas, oil on canvas, and watercolor on paper. I enjoy all three mediums. They have very different characteristics therefore I have to approach them each in a different manner and technique.

My style of painting, however, remains the same with both in that it is impressionistic. In oil, I usually use a palette knife exclusively. The heavy impasto texture I can achieve with the knife is something I really enjoy. With watercolor I can achieve subtleties that cannot be planned.

I was able to travel to Paris, London, and Oxford recently and was thrilled to visit the Museum D'Orsay in Paris and the National Gallery in London. At both museums I spent most of my time looking at the impressionists such as Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Van Gough, and the like.

At the National Gallery in London I was able to attend a special showing of Vermeer of the Delft school (Dutch artisans). Vermeer's art is not impressionistic but my love of art extends well beyond impressionism to many styles and schools. Most of the work I have completed as yet from that trip has centered on subjects that I found in the university city of Oxford, England. The subject matter there is endless and beautiful. I spent time in the Cotswold area of small and beautiful villages that is just to the north of Oxford. I will have subject matter for years from that one trip, but I must go back.

I want viewers and collectors of my work to be tugged at their soul to go and visit the places I have seen or to enjoy my work as a warm reminder of where they have been before.

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