I am a long-time professional artist who studied Fine Art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with New York figurative painter Eric Fischl and Dutch color field painter Jan Andriesse. My paintings are richly detailed and strongly influenced by my expressionistic heroes. I specialize in large custom-designed murals, landscapes, portraiture and paintings of historic Manitou Beach, where my partner Sharon Gibson and I have lived and worked for about 18 years.OK, so that was the rehearsed version. Here's the off-the-cuff take: I love painting, it is like air to me. I...more
