Happy 2026!

About ten years ago, I changed my viewpoint on how I wanted to paint, what I wanted to communicate and what sort of response I wanted from my viewers. I hadn’t really given it much thought until then. My approach to color changed completely and shifted from a sort of haphazard combination of pastel and muted color to a more bold, striking and saturated approach. While playing around and experimenting with this new idea I started with very basic compositions and some smaller canvases.

Now the fun really begins! It started with some simple abstracts of circuit boards; then onto geometric shapes followed by trees in their most basic form. Next came a series of the most brilliantly bright flowers with many trips to the flower shop. I moved on to painting animals of all kinds: dogs, cats, lizards, turtles, ducks, Canadian Geese, fish, alligators, butterflies and even an armadillo.

Portraits came next, mostly self-portraits and portraits of my husband and our two cats. You could probably say these were sort of caricatures, definitely not formal portraiture.

A series of bicycles enters in here that lasted for years intermingled with other things I was working on. For a long while I went full swing into blowing up ordinary objects bigger than life, things like scissors, pliers, can openers, egg slicers, kitchen tongs, nail clippers, just to name a few. I had the time of my life doing this. The funniest responses were something like, “Well you can really only hang those nail clippers in the bathroom” or “That egg slicer painting belongs in the kitchen”. These made me laugh because I wanted the paintings to be seen and make people laugh a little about the inappropriateness of nail clippers in the living room.

Then came a 28-piece series of Musical Instrument Paintings.

I’d like to interject here that somewhere in the middle of my adventures painting objects and musical instruments I became very interested in painting bridges and tunnels and I still remain interested to this day, usually creating at least a couple paintings a year with bridges.

This blog is getting too long. So, I will summarize the remaining bits here. A series of aircraft and airports kept me going for some time along with farm scenes, landscapes of my neighborhood, walks in the park and beach scenes. A very long series of urban landscapes still continues currently with many cityscapes of New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami, Sarasota, Tampa, Clearwater and others. New York has been my favorite city to paint, having lived there for some time and continuing to travel there for exhibitions.

There is a Virtual Exhibit of 104 paintings that will take you through my travels as an artist over the last 10 years. Here is the link: Paintings: A Selection From The Last 10 Years      

Enjoy!