Traditional Still LIfe

Blue Lagoon

Blue Lagoon
11" x 11" oil on stretched canvas

An impasto abstract oil painting with painted sides to display without a frame or can be framed.

Price: $100 plus s/h. Email me if interested.

Daffodil Bouquet

Daffodil Bouquet

5" x 5" on stretched canvas

This mini is part of a floral series I have done to exhibit in a show. It will be framed in a 3 1/2" frame.

To purchase this or a similar painting, email me. This framed painting is priced at $250.00

On a Boat in China

On a Boat in China

6" x 6" oil on masonite

This is one of a series of mini restaurant scenes that I did for a show.

This painting is SOLD.

If you would like a painting similar to the above, please email me.

A 4" x 6" print is available for $15 plus s/h.

Red and Yellow Tulips

Red and Yellow Tulips

5" x 5" oil on masonite

This is a mini floral painting from a series I am doing for an upcoming show. It will be put in a 3 1/2" square frame. If you are interested in this or a similar painting, email me.

Unframed this painting is priced at $150 plus s/h.. Framed it costs $250 plus s/h.

Construction Guy

Construction Guy

16" x 12" watercolor

This little construction guy is my grandson Shane. He is now six, but when he was three he loved to play with his construction toys.

This painting is SOLD.

If you'd like your grandchildren or children in a painting, let me know. I do a limited number of commissioned paintings from your best photos in either watercolor, acrylic or oil in various sizes. Email me if you are interested.

At the Apple Orchard

At the Apple Orchard

12" x 16" watercolor on paper

My grandson Ryan found this beautiful apple after a visit to the apple orchard. He was only three then and he is six now. Time flies. I love to capture memories of my grandchildren's earlier years.

This painting is SOLD.

Baby Carson

Baby Carson

9" x 12" watercolor on paper

Carson is my fifth grandchild and this is a painting I did of him. He is a great child, so easy going and bright. He is also very content as this picture of him smiling indicates.

This painting is SOLD. I do a limited amount of commissions of children, landscapes, people in places and still lifes of mementoes. Contact me if you would like a commissioned painting.

Grapes and Shadows

Grapes and Shadows

12" x 16" pastel on paper

Although I prefer oils, I do sometimes paint with soft pastels. This is a Still Life I did trying to capture shawows on a tablecloth.

This painting is available in a mat priced at $75 plus s/h. If you are interested, please email me.

A print 8" x 10" is priced at $25 plus s/h.

Red Poppies

Red Poppies

6" x 6" oil on canvas

This is another one in my series of mini florals prepared for an upcoming show. I will be put in a wide 3 1/2" frame.

The price of this mini is $150 plus s/h unframed and $250 plus s/h framed. Email me if you are interested in this or a similar painting.

Blue Hydrangeas

Blue Hydrangeas

9" x 12" pastel

I used soft pastels to portray this hydrangea bouquet.

Email me if you are interested in purchasing it. It is priced at $75 plus s/h.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25.

Eggs in Shadow

Eggs in Shadow

9" x 12" pastel

Soft pastel can render hard shelled eggs very softly. This is a dominant blue painting.


To purchase this pastel, email me. It is priced at $75 plus s/h. An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Blue Flower

Blue Flower

9" x 12" gouache on paper

I enjoyed experimenting with gouache in painting this flower. I like the opaqueness of the result.

If you wish to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed; $250 framed in a gold frame plus s/h.

Festive Bouquet

Festive Bouquet

5" x 5" oil on canvas

This is another one is my series of mini florals I am preparing for an upcoming art show. It will be framed in a 3 1/2" decorative frame.

If you wish to purchase this painting, or one similar ato it, please email me. Unframed with painted sides, it is priced at $150 plus s/h. In the decorative 8" x 10" frame it costs $250 plus s/h. I can email you a picture of it in its frame.

Yellow Vase with Purple Tulips

Yellow Vase with Purple Tulips

5" x 5" oil on canvas

This is another painting in my mini flower series I am creating for an upcoming show. It will be put in a 3 1/2" decorative frame.

If you are interested in this or a similar painting, please email me. Unframed this painting with painted sides is priced at $150. In a decorative frame it will sell for $250. I can email you a picture of the framed painting if you are interested. Shipping is extra.

Chinese Dancer

Chinese Dancer

16" x 20" watercolor on paper

This painting was initiated after a trip to China and viewing the Key to the City dance performance done by very colorful and talented dancers.

If you are interested in purchasin this painting, please email me.

A 10" x 8" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Bouquet of Tulips

Bouquet of Tulips

5" x 5" oil on stretched canvas

This is one of a series of mini paintings I am preparing for an upcoming show. It will be framed in a 4 1/2" frame which I will photograph and put on my blog when completed.

If you would like to purchase a mini like this one, please email me. Unframed it is priced at $100 plus s/h. Since the sides are painted, it needn't be framed. However, when framed in a 4 1/2" decorative frame it is priced at $250 plus s/h.

Tuscan Grapes

Tuscan Grapes

12" x 16" watercolor on paper

This painting was done as I sat beneath a grape vine looking up at it in a village I stayed at in Buenconvento, a Tuscan town in Italy. I was fortunate to join a group of painters who attended a morning workshop and then painted every afternoon for two weeks and traveled on weekends and evenings to neighboring Tuscan towns. It was a memorable experience and I enjoyed every minute of painting I did there and times I spent with my artist friends.

This painting is SOLD.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Ready to Order

Ready to Order

6" x 6" oil on masonite

This is another one of my series of restaurant scenes.

If you would like to purchase this one, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed or $185 framed in a black modern frame plus s/h.

Blue Plate and Pears Still Life

Blue Plate and Pears Still Life

8" x 10" oil on stretched canvas

This was done completely with a palette knife and has an emphasis on texture and color. It is done in an expressionistic style.

If you are interested in purchasing this painting, please email me. It is priced at $200 plus s/h ready for framing.

An 8: x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h...

A Romantic Evening

A Romantic Evening

6" x 6" oil on masonite

Another in my series of restaurant scenes. This one expresses a romantic dinner by a young couple celebrating their love.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed or $185 framed in a black modern frame plus s/h.

Coffee Shop Break

Coffee Shop Break

6" x 6" oil on masonite

This is one of my series of restaurant mini scenes. A mother and child are visiting a coffee shop, taking a break as others rush to work and other places.

If you wish to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed or $185 framed in a black modern frame plus s/h.

Alaskan Sunset

Alaskan Sunset

8" x 10" acrylic on stretched canvas

This painting is partly imaginary pushing the colors of the sunset.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $100 plus s/h.

Luminosity

Luminosity
6" x 8" oil pastel on paper

This an abstract oil pastel done by layering and scraping oil pastels on printmaking paper. The underlying colors are transparent and peek through the overlying pigments.

This oil pastel is SOLD.

Downstream

Downstream

16" x 24" acrylic on stretched canvas

This is one of a number of abstracts I painted with reference to water.

This painting is SOLD.

Eating Crabs

Eating Crabs

6" x 6" oil on masonite

Once a year my husband and I with 4 other couples meet in the Chesapeake area to eat their delicious crabs. This is a scene from the Harris Crab House.

If you wish to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed or $185 framed in a black modern frame plus s/h for both.

Vase of Sunflowers

Vase of Sunflowers

18" x 24" oil on stretched canvas

My favorite flower is the sunflower so I decided to paint this bouquet of sunflowers against a rosy background. It took some time because of the size of the painting and the glazing of oil paints

This painting sold in April '09.

A 10" x 8" print is available for $25 plus $5 S/H.

Girl Talk

Girl Talk
6" x 6" oil on canvas


This is another mini in my series of restaurant paintings. These are three of my friends who travel with our husbands once a year to Va. They are Lee, Ann and Eileen.

This painting SOLD in March 2009.

Restaurant in Provence

Restaurant in Provence

6" x 6" oil on canvas

This is one of my mini series of restuarants; this one was of two people at a little cafe restaurent in Provence.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed or $185 framed plus s/h for both.

Restaurant de Roussillon

Restaurant de Russillon

6" x 6" oil on masonite

This is another in the series of mini restaurant scenes I am painting. This was taken from a restaurant I visited last year in Rousillon, France.

If you wish to purchase this mini, please email me. It is priced unframed at $150 plus s/h or $185 plus s/h with a modern black frame.

Lively Bar

Lively Bar

6" x 6" oil on masonite

At the Palm Beach airport there is a lively bar with colorful decor and unusual stools. This is one of a series of restaurant minis I'm creating for sale.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed plus s/h. or $185 framed in a modernh black frame plus s/h .

Figure in Charcoal

Figure in Charcoal

18" x 24" Charcoal Drawing

This figure was done on mat board. I tried to develop the facial characteristics and skin as best I could to make it seem realistic.

If you wold like to purchase this drawing, please email me. this drawing is priced at $200 plus s/h.

A 10" x 8" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Meditation

Meditation

18" x 24" acrylic on stretched canvas

This painting is an abstraction of a woman meditating.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. This painting is priced at $250 plus s/h.

Chinese Dancer I

Chinese Dancer I

16" x 20" watercolor on paper

A few years ago I was fortunate to travel to China with my husband and 8 other friends. In one city we watched the Key to the City ceremony from which this painting recently evolved. The costumes of the dancers were wonderful and this dancer inspired me to paint this watercolor.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $250 plus s/h.

A 10" x 8" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Mike's Plant

Mike's Plant

11" x 14" watercolor on paper

This plant was on my son Mike's front steps and fully in bloom its flowers sparkled with color.

This painting is SOLD.

A 10" x 8" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Forms Floating

Forms Floating

30" x 40" acrylic on stretched canvas

This abstract was an experiment in shapes, line and color.

This painting is SOLD.

Into the Depths

Into the Depths

30" x 40" acrylic on stretched canvas

This is one of my larger abstract paintings using line and shapes fashioned after one of my favorite abstract painters, Kandinsky. He wrote an entire book on the use of dots, lines and color and I tried to use some of his theories in this painting. It has black painted sides with 1 1/2" thickness and can be hung without a frame.

I tried to use a push/pull motif; is the orange circle behind or in front of the green rectangle? You figure it out.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. It is priced at $1200 plus s/h.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Ebbtide Abstract

Ebbtide Abstract

12" x 16" acrylic on stretched canvas

This abstract began as an unplanned application of acrylic colors and evolved into a painting resembling the ebbing tide on a coastline. However, I retained the abstraction rather than bring it to realism retaining the large shapes of varied colors fusing together.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. This abstract is framed in a floater frame and is priced at $400 plus s/h. An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Figures and Shapes Abstract

Reaching Out Abstract

38" x 22" acrylic on bristol board

This painting evolved from an experience with colors, figures and shapes while experimenting with acrylic pigments. The dramatic colors push and pull against each other.

If you are interested in this painting, please email me. This painting is priced at $600 unframed plus s/h.

Blue Rhapsody

Blue Rhapsody

6" x 9" oil pastel

This abstract was done by layering and scratching out colors with Holbein oil pastels. You can see some of the underlying colors seeping through the blue dominant finished painting. It was done on Rives printmaking paper and will need a mat and glass to be framed properly.

If you would like to purchase this abstract oil pastel, please email me. It is priced at $100 plus s/h. Matted and framed is priced at $200 plus s/h.

Two Yellow Roses

Two Yellow Roses

8" x 10" oil on stretched canvas

I placed two fresh new yellow roses in this tiny crystal vase and painted it with a dark background. I tried to reflect the multitude of color reflections in the vase.

This painting is SOLD.

Peony in the Light

Peony in the Light

18" x 24" mixed media on stretched canvas framed

I love peonies and decided to do an expressionistic painting of a varied-colored peony bouquet. I randomly put colors in the background and finished by putting a few details in the peonies, but I didn't want this to be as realistic as some other work I've done. The background and vase are left undetailed also. I like the contrast of the red against the white flowers.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. This painting, framed in a gold, plein aire frame is priced at $900 plus s/h.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Night Scene

Night Scene

8" x 10" Oil Pastel

This is a picture of an oil pastel I did from a scene across the street from where I live. The light on the house, my tree and snow on the two front lawns attracted me to render it quickly from my window. At this point in the photo, it was still taped onto my support.
Later, matted and framed, this pastel won an Honorable Mention in a local gallery show to my surprise and of course excitement.

This painting is SOLD.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Hiking Through Valley Forge at Dusk

Hiking Through Valley Forge at Dusk
12" x 16" pastel framed

On Christmas Day, my husband, Don, two of my sons, Paul and Louis, and I hiked through the historic Valley Forge at dusk when the skies were so blue and the ground so orange. The complementary colors of that particular day inspired me to do this pastel of the colorful scene.
Our family is so fortunate to have this beautiful, vast, historic Valley Forge park so near and available to us for hiking and biking which we do often as a favily all year round.
If you ever are in the vicinity of Philadelphia, you will have an opportunity to visit Valley Forge and experience its history and beauty.

This pastel painting is SOLD.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Homage to Cezanne Still Life

Homage to Cezanne Still Life

16" x 20" watercolor framed

I admire Cezanne's paintings and even traveled to Aix-en-Provence to see his originals in the museum there. So when setting up this still life I thought of the many wonderful paintings Cezanne produced in his studio which still has some of the vases and objects he painted. We even walked up the steep hill from his studio to the park dedicated to him which overlooks Mt. Victoire the famous mountain he painted. The park has many images of his landscapes of this famous mountain. It is worth a visit since it was a popular spot Cezanne painted from in his day.

If you would like to purchase this watercolor, please email me. It is framed priced at $250 plus s/h. An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Green and White Pitchers

Green and White Pitchers

11" x 14" oil on canvas framed

This still life was done in a series of glazes when I attended the Pa. Fine Arts Academy in Phila. I was interested in the light reflected on the pitchers and table.

This painting is SOLD.

An 8"x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Fields of Color

Fields of Color

8" x 10" oil on stretched canvas

This painting is an experimentation of doing an abstract on a smaller canvas than I usually use for abstract paintings. The infusion of reds and blues dominating took over the fields of color.

If you wish to purchase this painting, please email me. It is ready for framing priced at $150 plus s/h.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

An Explosion of Colors

An Explosion of Colors

8" x 10" oil pastel on paper

When using oil pastels, I like to blend, scrape and layers colors into a colorful abstract. This pastel exploded into many colors as a result of this process.

If you would like to purchase this pastel, please email me. It is priced at $150 unframed or $200 framed plus s/h.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $25 plus s/h.

Three's Company

Three's Company

11" x 14" watercolor on paper framed

This trio of sunflowers was a study done in watercolor using a cool, blue background.

This painting is SOLD.

An 8" x 10" print is available for $35 plus s/h.

Two Pears Still Life

Two Pears Still Life

12" x 16" oil on stretched canvas

This still life was based on a color contrast between the foreground and background with the pears adding a complementary green touch compared to the reddish background.

If you would like to purchase this painting, please email me. This painting is priced at $250 plus s/h. It is available in a gold frame for $300 plus s/h.

An 8" x 10" print is priced at $35 plus s/h.