My Art Portfolio
Shown below are small-sized images of thirty-six of the better paintings that I have created since 1967. Click on any of these images to see more information about available wall art and other products that you can purchase that are printed using high-quality resolution images of these paintings.
RECENT OIL PaintingS
In the early 2021 and after more than forty years of inactivity, I did several "Restart Paintings" on inexpensive stretched canvases. After finishing four such efforts, I felt comfortable enough in my abilities to finish the "44-Year Painting" described later on this webpage. After making a few more efforts on inexpensive stretched canvass, I made the decision to switch to more expensive archival-quality linen-covered wooden painting panels. This change enabled me to paint details much more easily and accurately and now I only use these as my painting surfaces.
All of the paintings in this first section are of my newer works done on these linen-covered wooden panels. Paintings HV16 through HV19 comprise my Quadtych inspired by Thornton Wilder's play 'Our Town' and were also painted shown on these panels but are shown in a separate section below that offers more information.
Four of my earliest paintings of various subjects and sizes are also shown in a small section after that.
HV20: Small Coastal Harbor
HV21: Ichabod Goodwin House (Ancestor)
HV22: Baileys Island Tidal Pool
HV23: Ogunquit Marginal Way
HV24: Portland Head Light After Big Storm
HV25: Sayward / Wheeler House (Ancestor)
HV26: Winter Dawn at the Seacoast
HV27: Ithaca Falls in Autumn
HV28: Barrell Grove House (Ancestor)
HV29: William Vaughan House (Ancestor)
HV30: Tretower Court & Castle (Ancestor)
HV31: Passing Nubble Light
HV32: Fall Foliage Reflections
HV33: Egret in Scarborough Marsh
HV34: Bald Eagle Soaring Above Seacoast
HV35: Thirsty Bear at Low's Bridge
HV36: Beaver Repairing His House Roof
HV37: Hungry Moose Near Mount Katahdin
HV38: Spring Bursts Forth in Yarmouth
HV39: Maine Lupine & Lobstering
HV40: Fireworks Over Bug Light
HV41: Fort Edgecomb Protects Wiscasset
HV42: Rosa Rugosa At Pemaquid Light
HV43: Harpswell Lookout Point Anchorage
HV44: Low Tide Near Lookout Point
HV45: A Maine Seacoast Cottage Garden
'Our Town' Quadtych IMAGES
I've always been intrigued by Thornton Wilder's play 'Our Town' and its inherent way of summarizing life. After several years of thinking about how I could do a painting about this, I finally conceived an idea of using four paintings that when assembled together make a panoramic image of 'Our Town' thus producing a quadtych -- and with each of the four paintings representing both a season, and a depiction of a phase of the cycle of life.
In early 2023 I refined my concepts and defined in more detail what each of the "quadtych panels" would depict before I began any painting. To help unite the individual paintings into a cohesive panorama, I used the background elements of the surrounding hills, roads, and stone walls to sweep across the panels. Thus each panel depicts a phase in the cycle of life and is depicted in the corresponding season of the year. In addition, I decided to add corresponding representative flowers in the lower-right corner of each panel. To ensure that a viewer's focus would be on the overall theme of the quadtych, the painting of the panels was purposely done in a slightly more "primitive" artistic style so that the viewer 's eye would not be distracted by too many details.
Recently I figured out how to digitally combine the images of the four different panels into one combined image as shown in the image below:
HV16-19: Our Town (The Seasons & Cycle of Life)
Images of each of the four individual paintings are also available separately as shown below. Another way to assemble a quadtych, would be to purchase a 'Unframed Canvas' Art Print or 'Framed Poster' of each of the four paintings and hang them touching side-by-side.
HV16: Our Town (Spring / Childhood)
HV17: Our Town (Summer / Courtship)
HV18: Our Town (Fall / Adulthood)
HV19: Our Town (Winter / Reflection, Death & Hope)
"44-Year Painting"
In 1977 I left my job as the Director of Management Information Systems at Cornell University and embarked on a whole new career in the fledgling microcomputer industry. After 'Apple' and 'IBM' released microcomputer products over the ensuing months, the industry exploded and I no longer had time to do oil painting -- thus leaving one painting half-finished. That unfinished and unprotected painting subsequently was moved around the country for over forty years but miraculously survived.
After I started painting again in 2021, I purposely did not attempt to finish this half-completed painting until I felt comfortable that I had regained the skills to do so. In 2022, after having finished four "Re-Start" paintings, I finally finished this painting. {Those "Re-Start" paintings ('HV07' through 'HV10'), and four subsequent Re-Learning" efforts ('HV11' through 'HV14') made on inexpensive canvases are now no longer available.}
HV06: Spring Has Arrived
Earliest PaintingS
I started my first oil painting back in 1967, inspired by Winston Churchill's pamphlet "Painting As A Pastime" that I accidentally discovered when visiting a library. Although I never took any art lessons, I did review a few pamphlets about painting techniques. Over the next ten years my methodical work only produced five complete paintings. Four of them are shown below. {'HV03' is in a private collection and not available.}
HV01: Earth-Rise View from Space
HV02: Yellow Loosestrife in Garden
HV04: Watching Bald Eagle
HV05: The Stagecoach Arrived