In 2016 I discovered the orchards of Adams County, Pennsylvania. This painting of an apple orchard was done on Thanksgiving Day, past harvest time, but with plenty of color still in the landscape due to the leaves on the trees and apples on the ground. I stood on a hill with groves of trees on all sides of me to paint these rows of apple trees going off into the distance. Click here to purchase. [...]
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In my family, when I was a child the best week of the year was the week we spent at the "Jersey shore." The bays and marshes have rich memories for me, from my sister's catching an eel while fishing with a piece of string and a hook (about age 5) to the time my math professor father (NOT a sailor) rented sunfish sailboats and he and we three children were becalmed in the bay and had to be rescued. This painting of a tidal marsh at the New Jersey shore was started en plein air and finished in the studio. I'm always [...]
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