After spending most of my career in corporate advertising departments, I now pursue my own artistic work in photography, painting and gourds.
Combining my interest gardening with photography, I capture many of my floral subjects from my own garden. The beauty of flowers doesn’t last long in nature, but captured by the camera, they will last forever! Many of my photographs capture the beauty of flowers as they appear naturally, however I also enjoy modifying images through various artistic software programs to create digital artwork from the photographs.
I have begun combining images to create artwork. I am inspired by Swedish artist Erik Johansson. These digital compositions take 3 to 5 or more separate images to create a completely new image. It’s difficult to identify the individual components in the final work.
I am also exploring more painting, mostly oil. And using gourds to create bowls using mostly natural material.
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People often have a misconception that photographers take a picture and that is the totality of work on an image. While selecting settings on the camera and composition are very important, many photographs are not quite presentable right from the camera. Artists will edit a photo to minimize things they don’t like, and maximize what they want to emphasis in an image. This can be subtle edits that the viewer doesn’t even realize to extreme edits where it’s clear work has been done.
Below is just one example of editing to create a different feel to an image.
BEFORE
AFTER
Member Perkiomen Valley Art Center
SHOWS
2024
Perkiomen Valley Art Open Juried Show: Honorable Mention, Photogrpahy – Alps, Peoples Choice Award – Painting Busy Building
PVAC Group Exhibit- Montgomery County Community College
Meadowood Open Juried Show – Honorable Mention, Photography – ALPS
Solo Exhibit- Generations in Souderton
Solo Exhibit – Broad Street Grind in Souderton
2023 PVAC MEMBER SHOW
2022
PVAC OPEN JURIED SHOW- Boyer Gallery @ the Hill School
PVAC Member Show – 1st Place Pro Division – Photograph – Phanta with Raven
2022
SOLO EXHIBIT – Indian Valley Public Library
2021 –
Eclipse Center for Creative Commons, Lansdale PA, Phantasm – 3 works
PVAC Group Show – Green Wolf’s Gallery, Skippack PA
2020 –
Two artist show – Meadowood Community, Worcester PA
2019
PVAC Member Show
PVAC Annual Open Juried show
2018
Perkiomen Valley Art Center Member Exhibition – Pat Wilson-Schmid Award
Pennsylvania Center for Photography – Americana 2018 – Juried Show – “Freight House”
John James Audubon Center Art Show – Drawn from Natue – Juried Show – “Bluebird in Winter”
2017
Pennsylvania Center for Photography – Transformations -Juried Show2 image
PVAC Member Show
PVAC Open Juried Show
2016
PVAC Member Show – 2nd Place -Pro
PVAC Open Juried Show
Pennsylvania Center for Photography – Transformations – 2 images