The landscape is a temporary state of a dynamic and fluctuating environment. I try to convey a sense of the physical structure of landscapes, both grand and quantum, in the choice of compositions and in the application of paint. I strive to see the landscape as a model for the structure and changing state of our physical reality. Light and atmosphere is fundamental in landscape painting, but there is also energy present in the subjects themselves.

A re-introduction to philosophy has made me more aware of our nearly universal involuntary attraction and reaction to various landscapes. I am guided to my subjects by our emotional connections to our physical environment and speculate on the reasons those shared connections exist.

 

Current Residence- 34 South Main Street, Sunderland, Ma. 01375

Education-

1977 Batchelor of Arts- Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1978 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme, CT

1978 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme, CT

1979 studio with Salvatore Grippi, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 1980 studio with James Valerio, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2001 Master of Science-University of Massachusetts, School of Natural Resources, Amherst, MA 2001 Xi Sigma Pi, Forestry Honor Society, Full Membership

 

Permanent Exhibits-

Holyoke in the Early Jurassic, 10’ x 10’ (of a proposed 10’ x 50’) mural, Trustees of the Reservation, Holyoke, MA

In The Late Triassic, 14'x 29' mural, Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, CT

Jurassic Morning, 8' by 14' mural, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

Paintings of the East Border Fault Basin, Triassic and Present, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

The Triassic, 5' x 10', Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA

 

Recent Exhibits-

2023 40th Anniversary Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

2022 38th Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

2022 Light: Land & Sky (2 person show), Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA

2021 37th Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2020 Home Ground (2 person show), Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2020 36th Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2019 35th Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2019 Under the Sun (solo show), Bertolon Gallery, Pingree School, Hamilton, MA

2018 34th Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2018 Best of the Best, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

2018 Skylight (2 person show), Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA 2018 Alumni Art Exhibit, Westminster School, Simsbury, CT

2017 Unfiltered, An Exhibition About Water, William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2017 33rd Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2017 Uplands, (2 person show), Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2016 Fall Exhibition, Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA 2015 Valleys to the Sea- (solo show), Kerri Gallery, Willimantic, CT

2015 31st Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2015 Waterscapes (2 person show), Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2014 30th Annual Almost Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2014 Alumni Art Exhibit, Westminster School, Simsbury, CT

2014 Confluence, new members, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2013 Francesca Anderson 30th Anniversary Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2013 Through Rain, Snow and Nor'easters, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

2013 29th Annual Near Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2012 28th Annual Near Miniatures Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA 2012 Alumni Art Exhibit, Westminster School, Simsbury, CT

2009 Then and There, Landscapes (solo show), Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 Guest Artist, Isle of Shoals Marine Biology Lab, Isle of Shoals, NH

 

Published Illustrations -

The Ends of the Earth, Peter Brannen, Ecco Books, New York, NY; 2017

Impressions from a Lost World, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA; 2017 https://dinotracksdiscovery.org/

Historic Deerfield, Landscape, Historic Deerfield Inc., Deerfield, MA; 2011

River, Valley, Rock, Deerfield Magazine, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield MA; 2011

Perspectives on Animal Behavior 3e, Goodenough, McGuire, Jakob, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ; 2009

Endocrinology, Vol 149, No.9, Rolf Karlstrom, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 2008

Raid On Deerfield: The Many Stories, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA; 2004 (http://1704.Deerfield.history.museum) & (http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/maps/landscapes.html)

Great Day Trips in the Connecticut Valley of the Dinosaurs, Brendan Hanrahan, Perry Heights Press, Wilton, CT; 2004

Cell and Development Biology, Volume 13 No.6, Rolf Karlstrom, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 2002

The Auk, Vol 119, No.4, Andrea Ward, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 2002

Functional Anatomy of Vertebrates, edition 3, Liem, Bemis & Walker, Thomson/Brooks Cole, Belmont, CA; 2001

Apoptosis, Lawrence Schwartz, Academic Press (Elsevier), Cambridge, MA; 2001

Exploring Franklin County, A Geology Guide, Richard Little, Earthview Press, Easthampton, MA; 1989

 

Other art related-

Artist in Residence, Zion National Park, Springdale, UT 2021

Oxbow Gallery Collective, Northampton, MA., Co- President, 2017-2020

Sunderland Tricentennial Art Exhibit, Sunderland, MA.,2018, Organizer

Sunderland Veterans’ Memorial Committee, Sunderland, MA, 2007-2009, (Chair, 2007/2008)

 

Mike’s Maze

2000-2014 Maze creator, artist, game maker and partner of  Mike's Maze at Warner Farm, Sunderland, MA.

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/making-corn-maze-gps-basic-math-back/

 

Community Service

Sunderland Solid Waste Planning District (3 years), Sunderland Board of Health (3 years) & Sunderland Planning Board (8 years),Town of Sunderland, MA

DIAL/SELF Youth Services Board of Directors (5 years), Greenfield, MA