I wish to emulate Albert Pinkham Ryder's passionate, adventurous, mythic, dream-like oils in the Romantic Tradition.  The "Flying Dutchman" just sends me. The genre of marine painting isn't the point.  It's the tale at sea, the allegory and his magnificent veils of color glazes, surface textures and sweeping gestural mark-making.  I want to create art that sparks and inspires, whether to calm, comfort, or excite. 

 

For years, I worked exclusively in oils and discovered I could mimic similar effects with acrylics which offers me a faster and less toxic way of working in the studio.  I also paint on paper and navigation charts in acrylic paint. 

 

The paper in this collection, nautical navigation charts, inspired me to take a leap back into seascapes. They were traversed by my late father, who passed recently.  He served twenty years in the Coast Guard Auxiliary.