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Welcome to my watercolor web site and my Chesapeake Bay studio in Deltaville, Virginia!  I love to paint the great blue herons, ospreys, fish, flowers and gardens of the Chesapeake Bay Region, the Outer Banks of North Carolina and the Florida Keys in creative and colorful interpretations and look forward to sharing my work with you.  I call my style of painting “impressionistic realism” and aim for a luminous flow of colors that shows off the extraordinary beauty of watercolor as a major art medium. 

I am very pleased that my paintings have been purchased for both private and corporate collections throughout the world.  Please browse this site to learn more about my work and how I get my inspiration - just click here for my Bio.   If you would like to take a class or purchase a painting, print, giclee or my "Art Rocks" jewelry, please contact me!   I'd love to hear from you.  I am now accepting a limited number of commissions for 2013.

If you are interested in taking an art class please see my 2013 classes and workshops!   Be sure to sign up for your favorite class or workshop early as the classes always fill quickly.       

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How did I do that?  I am often asked that question!  Working with purist watercolor techniques (which means no white or black paint) my goal is to capture on paper a memorable and creative visual impression for the viewer.  I sketch in my sketchbook making notes for future paintings and take hundreds of photos that I use for resource material. 

Since my ideas come from many sources I like to have a “painting plan”.  Although each painting is different, I begin with a compositional plan of lights and darks in a 2” x 3” value sketch in my sketchbook and proceed to a fu
ll-size drawing on my watercolor paper.  Using both large and small brushes as well as a “pouring” technique, I add vibrant colors in layers of transparent glazes in a style I call “impressionistic realism”

If you look closely at my work, you can see “negative painting” in the osprey nests, light “poured” into the water in "Jellies" and clear transparent “luminous color” in the seascape paintings of the Florida Keys. Please come to one of the shows and stop by for an art chat.  Click here to see my show schedule and find a show near you!  I'll be happy to tell you          "How I did that"!                                                                                                    "Fleur's Lily"                                                                  
 

All images are copyrighted. 


New Release!


"The Conversation"
Original Watercolor               Image Size 20" x 14" 
Original Available - Price on Request
Giclees Available $60

 




"Lichen and Stolen Spider Webs"
Original Watercolor               Image Size 15" x 11" 
Original Available - Price on Request
Giclees Available $60



     



"Into the Dawn"
Original Watercolor, 16" X 20"  Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $60



 


"Marsh Dancers"
Original Watercolor 11" X 14"  Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45



 



 

"Palms, Great Egret"
Original Watercolor, 30" X 22"  Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45

My painting "Palms, Great Egret" was juried into the 2011 Virginia Watercolor Society's 32nd Annual Exhibition which was held in Kilmarnock, VA, May 6 through June 3, at the
Rappahannock Art League. 

 

 

 






"Flying Home"
 Original Watercolor
       Image Size 22" X 30"
Original Available - Price on Request

Giclees Available $60
"Flying Home" won a second place award August 31, 2011, at the
Rappahannock Art League's 50th Annual Art Show in Irvington, VA!




 




"Chesapeake Bay, Blue Crab"

Original Watercolor, 17 1/2" X 14" 
Original - Collection the Artist
 Giclees Available $60
"Chesapeake Bay, Blue Crab" S/N limited edition lithographs are sold out but the image is now available as a signed, open-edition 11" X 14 1/2" giclee!
     



 

 


 


"Sky Dancer"
 Original Watercolor
  Image Size 11" X 14"   Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45





       
     
 "Tides In"
 Original Watercolor
  Image Size 10" X 14"  Private Collection
Giclees Available $60
 This painting was donated to the Bay School Community Arts Center in Mathews, Virginia,
for "Art and Antiques", their Annual Fine Arts Auction which was held on September 25, 2010.
              It is now in a private collection.
                  

    

         

 
"The F. D. Crockett"  (Home Port)
 Original Watercolor   Image Size 16" x 20"  Museum Collection
Giclees Available $60
     This painting is a watercolor of the beautifully restored buyboat owned by the Deltaville Maritime Museum located at the Holly Point Nature Park in Deltaville, Virginia. In planning the design of my painting I worked from photographs I took from the water while the buyboat was in her "home port" and met several times with John England, head of the Crocketteers restoration committee.  I have given this original painting to the Deltaville Maritime Museum in honor of the dedication of the F. D. Crockett.  I am honored to have my painting in a permanent "home port" on display for visitors at the museum. 

 

 
"Great Blue Heron"
Original Watercolor   Image Size 14" x 11"  Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45
This beautiful heron posed for a photograph at Lover's Key Resort in Florida.  Of course, I took artistic license with "creative color"!

        


 
  



"September Morn, Great Blue Heron"
Original Watercolor     Image Size 8" x 10"
Private Collection
     Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45













"After the Rain"
Original Watercolor   Image Size 8" x 10"  
Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45

 





"The Island Garden"
Original Watercolor   Image Size 30" x 22"   Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $60



 

              
         "Callas and Palms"            
Original Watercolor      Image Size 28" x 20"     Private Collection
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45
"Callas and Palms" won an Honorable Mention Award at the
2010 Virginia Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition at the
Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen, Virginia.



 



"Pastel Cottage" (Bermuda)
Original Watercolor          Image Size 13" x 19 1/2"
Collection the Artist
Giclees Available $45
"Pastel Cottage (Bermuda)" was juried into the
2010 National Watercolor Society All Members Show, May 2 - May 29, in San Pedro, California

                                         
           
        
 






                                               
"Winged Mangroves" 
 
        Original Watercolor           
Image Size 19" x 22"    Private Collection

Original SOLD 
Giclees Available $45

                                                                  



 

  





                                         
                                               "Conch Cottage"  (Pigeon Key, FL)                                         
      
Original Watercolor   Image Size 11" x 14 1/2"   
Private Collection
    
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45




 

                                    
                                               "Latitude Attitude"  (Pigeon Key, FL)
                                   
Original Watercolor              Image Size 13" x 20"
                                                            Private Collection
                                            
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45




 

                                                                                                                           
 "Blue Water, Green Heron
   
Original Watercolor        Image Size 11" x 14" 
 Collection the Artist

Giclees Available $45

"Blue Water, Green Heron" won a First Place Award at the Mathews Art Group Show
on September 10, 2011!




 

                                                
                                                           
"Dawn Interrupted" 
   
Original Watercolor      
 Image Size 11" x 14"
Private Collection

    
Original SOLD - Giclees Available $45


 








The watercolors above are available as limited edition giclee reproductions!


Price:    Limited Edition of 300 S/N:  $45 to $60
             Artist Proof Limited Edition of 25 to 50 S/N:   $125 

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