Rainbarrow Studio

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...

(Private Collection) During my senior year of college, while I was planning for graduate school applications, my advisor suggested that I ap...

I know some people who really enjoy painting. They find it relaxing and therapeutic - a positive outlet for creative expression. Sometimes ...

A great deal of art is artifice. Artists create works that are meant to convince the audience that they are something other than what they r...

Last week my son and I, along with a couple of friends, ventured deep into Baxter State Park for some cliff jumping at Upper South Branch P...

My passion for creating visual images initially came from within, but seeing the work of other artists has always spurred me on. I have memo...

Nothing can exist without its opposite. There can be no light without darkness, order without chaos, sound without silence, life without de...

Encouraged by some of my students, I began an ongoing series of YouTube videos in which I discuss all aspects of visual arts and the art-mak...

(Private Collection) I was given this small 12 x 12 canvas by the University of Maine at Presque Isle's Art Club and asked to do a pain...

“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.” – Mark Rothko A few months ago, my daughter and I went to the Museu...

(Private Collection) When making art, I have learned that it’s best to focus on the process rather than the end product. Years ago, I woul...

Oftentimes, when people find out that I am an artist, they ask me what kind of art I make. I find this a difficult question to answer, proba...

Painting is a solitary endeavor. I enjoy being around people and I am extremely fortunate to have so many amazing, wonderful and unique peop...

If you’re making any kind of art, it is essential, no matter what stage you are at in your development, that you seek out feedback about you...

(Private Collection) When my daughter was young, she and I spent a lot of time together, both in the car and on long walks. She would ofte...

During the second semester of my senior year in college, I was enrolled in an advanced printmaking class. It was a small class, maybe seven ...

One of the most difficult aspects of the art making process for me is the necessity of having to face one’s true self and the stark contrast...

When I was eight years old, prompted by a short-lived interest in pirates, I borrowed a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”, ...

When it comes to making art, technique has always been a struggle for me. Always. Drawing, painting, color theory and color mixing never cam...

One of the properties that I love most about oil paint is that it stays wet and workable for several days. I generally like to work a painti...

(Private Collection) It's easy, when making visual images, to focus on capturing the appearance of our subject. One "sees" som...

In two-dimensional art, we deal with two different types of space. "Decorative" space is a flat, two-dimensional space, which invo...

There’s an empty, derelict house about four miles from where I live, that has been the subject of numerous drawings and paintings over the p...

(Collection of the Artist) “A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” – Robert Henri It took me years to realize this, but t...

I’ve spent countless hours drawing and I still draw regularly. In the beginning, drawing was primarily a means of developing technique – gra...