I have been making oil paintings and soft pastel drawings of "skyscapes" since 1974.  I use a 'wet in wet' painting technique similar to a watercolorist.  I constantly blend and work one color into another to give a soft, undulating sense of light and atmosphere.  Eliminating the ground plane draws the viewer's attention to the part of nature that we most often take for granted in the chaos of everyday life.  Success is achieved by a sense of motion that ranges from quiet stillness to raging thunder, to feel the clouds drifting across the sky in constant change.

  

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EDUCATION

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1971  Arizona State, Tempe, Arizona 

1976  University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois -   

           Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting

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COLLECTIONS

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 - BankAmerica Corporation Collection, San Francisco, CA

 - Impell Corporation, San Francisco, CA

 - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, CA

 - AT&T, San Francisco, CA

 - Robert Half, Inc., San Francisco, CA

 - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

 - S.L. Pemberton Inc., San Francisco, CA

 - Federal Home Loan Bank, San Francisco, CA

 - Erskine & Tully Law Offices, San Francisco, CA

 - Limbach, Limbach & Sutton, Palo Alto, CA

 - National Automobile Club, San Francisco, CA

 - Kaiser Foundation, San Jose, CA

 - Security Research Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA

 - Aetna Insurance, San Francisco, CA

 - Cathedral City Library Art Collection, Cathedral City, CA

 - Poly-America, Dallas, TX

 - The William and Nancy O'Reilly Art Collection, Scottsdale, AZ