This body of abstract landscapes are reflections on time spent in Italy, Japan and Western Massachusetts as well as distillations of their cultures . The gilding and patination of each panel requires intense deliberation, while the under and over painting is gestural and expressionistic. The result can be seen as a cool amalgam of both a moment or a lifetime.

This process, the addition and subtraction of color and the manipulation of the leaf through patination, pushes the limits of water based mediums, and forces their compatibility with metals. Through this tension and transformation the work becomes a travelogue of modern and antique imagery.

Description of the process:
Gessoed Masonite panels are gilded with combinations of semi-precious leaf such as silver, copper, Dutch metal (a brass like alloy), and metallic powders. The leaf is prepared and applied in the traditional manner, and then patinas are arrived at using recipes from Henry Moore among others - over a period of days. There is sometimes under painting below the leaf, which I then reveal in the gilding process, often there is overpainting using wash and glazing techniques, all with water based mediums. Finally they are varnished, again with water based mediums.

In the private collections of Eli Lily Corp.,
Sargent Shriver, Donna Karan, Paula Abdul,
Claude Picasso, the Consulate of the Netherlands.
Permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Represented at Commercial Street: 508.349.9451