Robert
After a long career as an operation’s and environmental, health, and safety manager I retired in 2018 and immediately began to re-immerse myself in painting which is what I studied in college and have always enjoyed when time allowed.
I paint from my environment and experiences. For selecting imagery I use photographs and videos and increasingly paint from life. Each painting allows me to enjoy the process of recreating the scene and re-living the experience of the original moment in a particular space. I often duplicate a scene because I strive to create a different feeling using the same image, and because I love to paint.
Thank you so much for spending time with my artwork.
Valhalla
My 30ft Cape Dory Ketch Valhalla serves as my favorite vantage point in the warmer months.
INFLUENCES
As a child I watched my grandmother paint in her sunroom studio in Akron, Ohio and today I use her original easel and paint box which still has a number of her paints and brushes. Some of my earliest memories are my experiences near or on the waters of Lake Erie; I was sailing by age 8.
1967 painting done on location
I was fortunate to have wonderful nurturing art teachers. During my last two years in High School I was able to arrange my schedule so that my last three hours each day were in the art room. I was also permitted to leave school property and develop my skills drawing and painting local scenes.