I live and work on Vashon Island near Seattle.  I have been painting realistic subject matter for a long time and often include scenes from the Pacific Northwest where I live.  I have been blogging since 2010. 

I am interested in how light describes an object, and how shadows and highlights add drama.  I sometimes paint outdoors, but often paint in my studio from still life subjects that I arrange, or from photographs that I have taken.  Whether I am doing a still life or a landscape,  I am very much interested in composition and design and I work to simplify my subject matter so that the composition reads as well from across the room as it does close to the painting.