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Most of the paintings I make are created with combinations of water-based pigments in paint or crayon/pencil form. It's portable and doesn't bother my enviornment with fumes of any sort. I decorate some of the surfaces with collage elements in paper or sometimes copper foil which can be gilded with 23 carat gold leaf. My studio brims (read 'messy') with different art supplies; partly out of curiosity for the possible combinations and certainly because I don't like to waste an interesting bit of paper or elderly paint tube! Some of my larger paintings are nearly a sampler of how I can make so many different kinds of markings on paper or canvas.

My father Henry painted most of his life, too. The making of art was a constant part of our life there; nearly all of us could make something of paint or clay.
When I moved from my hometown of Carlsbad, California up the coast to Laguna Beach it was for my immediate involvement as a student at that town's School of Art. There were personable teachers in a simple school system. I opened a store then where I sold my paintings and all sorts of international folk art and textiles. The pervassive patterns of all that craft is still intruding into my work.
Laguna's history as an art community stableized my career while it's natural beauty was a blessing in my life.
Now I'm on the other side of the country, in another resort town on the water. Key West has the same artistic temperment and is quiet as Laguna used to be. I continue to look at a lot of greek antiquities and that pushes my figurative work into more profiled representations. Mermaids, birds and fish are recurring themes that hint of my location in the world.