You’ve just GOT to have the obligatory ‘Hello world!’ post or it ain’t WordPress, so here it is. New website, new paintings, same old struggle to find time to manage both.

After another decade-long hiatus I picked a brush back up last spring and have since been completely hung up on beaches, waterfronts, sunlight, and the alternating simplicity and complexity of rendering them. This time the process of painting has been more enjoyable than any other time since college. I’ve chalked that up to the subject matter, smaller dimensions, and the happy switch to acrylics (no waiting! no mess!). I hope to stay here a bit.

I don’t generally like artist statements mostly because of the presumptiveness that seems to go along with it. It’s not for me to say that anything I’m working on is “art” and honestly, this current interest is pretty light. Just painting beaches for a while, because you know, most of us really like the beach and have had some pretty good times there. Maybe people would like to see pictures of it.

A thanks for visiting goes out to whoever might see the site and click around. I don’t expect visitors but what I’m working on will show up here and I’ll try to post a few thoughts about it along the way.