Rainbarrow Studio

Copies of the first printing of my new book are still available to order online and ready to ship. The book is 8.5” x 8.5”, 64 pages, prin...

I have loved the writings of Thomas Hardy ever since I read Tess of the D'urbervilles in high school. I have read every one of his books...

I live in a place where Winter begins in late October and doesn't end until sometime in late April or, like this year, early May. As muc...

I have a fondness for emotionally charged, saturated colors in my work. Paintings by the Fauvists and German Expressionists, Van Gogh, and t...

My first encounter with a Mark Rothko painting was at the Museum of Modern Art in NY when I was in college. I may have heard his name before...

(Private Collection) People often make a distinction between "Realistic" art and "Abstract" art. Arguably, every work of...

(Private Collection) The impetus for most of what I do is usually nothing more than an impulse. I don't imagine or think about a picture...

I made a small (10" x 8") painting based on this idea, which came from a pastel drawing that did from memory after first drawing t...

I have spent many thousands of hours drawing from direct observation. For me, it has been a way to both develop technique and, more importan...

Everyone will view a work of art in their own personal, subjective way. We bring to the experience of looking at art our own personality tra...

(Private Collection) When I was studying art as an undergraduate, back in the "20th century" (as my son likes to say when he wants...

(Private Collection) As a Visual Arts Studio major in college, I was required to take a two-semester Survey of Art course, which was an art ...

(Private Collection) When I was in my fourth year of college as an undergrad student I did an independent study in painting with an instruct...

(Private Collection) Artists who work in two dimensional media (painting, drawing, printmaking, etc.) have to contend with two different typ...

Painting is a visual art but it can be used to convey much more than visual information. In addition to, or instead of, simply showing the ...

(Private Collection) In the Fall of my senior year in college I was beginning to prepare to apply to graduate schools. I wanted to be a pain...

"Ideas come spontaneously and the discipline required to evaluate and put them to use tends to be the real work.” - Stanley Kubrick To...

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of trusting my instincts. They have never been wrong, but there have been times when I ch...

(Private Collection) I grew up in an enclosed neighborhood that was surrounded by woodland – the remains of what were once an apple orchard...

(Private Collection) I must apologize for neglecting my blog over the past few months. In addition to spending quite a bit of time working o...

(Private Collection) When I was an undergraduate in college the painter Richard Sheehan came to the campus as a visiting artist for a day. H...

Occasionally, I get asked about the titles of my paintings and what they mean. As a visual artist, I am primarily concerned with creating an...

Apparently, I have become a landscape artist, although when I was learning how to draw and paint, landscape was never an area that intereste...

(Private Collection) One of the most difficult aspects of working in color is the phenomenon of Simultaneous Contrast, which results in the ...

On some level, every painting is an abstraction – a representation of something that it is not. It can depict a person or several people, an...

Sometimes when I am working with a student, explaining to them what is not working in their drawing or painting and showing them how to cor...

I have often remarked how being engaged with a painting feels to me like some kind of martial combat. Although no one is going to die if the...

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Tao de Ching I studied and played music for many years, before an overu...

I live in northern Maine. It has been brutally cold here this winter and we're on the verge of breaking the record for annual snow accum...

I try to work on my art every day. I decided many years ago to make it one of my top priorities (along with my family and my health) so it...