

The Art of Being
WITHIN THE MEADOW, acrylic on canvas, 20×16 THE HARDEST TASK is the simplest: doing nothing at all. Arms and legs like pistons, tireless as a hummingbird I drink nectar from Continue reading

Meadow
MEADOW, oil on canvas, 24×20

Jim Mairs’s Assist
THREE, acrylic on canvas, 16×16 MANY PEOPLE HAVE HELPED ME over the years, for which I am grateful. Sometimes aid has come from unexpected sources. * * * MY INITIAL IDEA for an Continue reading

Pluck
PLUCK, acrylic on canvas, 24×18 IF THERE IS ANY GOOD to come from the current suffering and slaughtering of innocent lives occurring thousands of miles away, it is that the war’s Continue reading

The Blue Hubbard Hanging from a Tree
My first full-time newspaper job, editor of the Auburn, Mass. News (1978-1980) THE BAD THING about being a public artist is that the inevitable mistakes that come with experience and experimentation Continue reading