These are paintings from the last 30 plus years. They're a little all over the place as I am. I haven't found one compelling style or subject that I've mined deeply, although you could probably find similar threads running through all the work. It might be that I'm just curious, but it probably has to do with my once episodic work schedule. For 25 of those years I sailed for a living and would be gone for months at a time. So it was a new start every few months. Now, in retirement, I generally get into the studio in the winter - summers turn out to be for fishing, golf, gardens, or tennis. I will try to mix a little background info in with the work.

11 1/4" X 14" Oil on canvas

Stegasaurus on the Veterans Bridge

This first painting, Stegasaurus, was part of a series of a dozen small paintings of prehistoric animals mixed into the Belfast, Me. landscape. I had a deck of prehistoric flash cards. There were Brontosauruses, Sabertooth Tigers, Pteradactyls, Wooly Mammoths and more. They only needed to be extinct.

14" X 20" Watercolor

Religion at Night

8" X 11 1/2" Watercolor

Kate's Hand

14" X 15" Watercolor

Big Wheel

10 1/2" X 12" Watercolor

Buddy in the DR

These four watercolors of toys were done when Johnny was a baby and toys were underfoot. There must have been a dozen or so, paintings that is.

10 1/2" X 14" Watercolor

Allagash Falls

3 1/2" X 5"

Watercolor

Utila 1

7 1/2" X 9" Watercolor

Utila 2

7 1/2" X 9" Watercolor

Utila 3

A particularly good day of fishing.

In 1993 we spent a memorable month snorkelling in Utila. These three watercolors were done there.

The next eight paintings are from the neighborhood - Belfast & Waldo Co. ME

16" X 20" Oil

The Muck

12" X 16" Oil

Light Tree

19" X 22" Oil

Tree House

18" X 18" Oil

Balloon Tree

18" X 22" Oil

Black Tree, White Chair, Green House

22" X 22" Oil

Tree & Fence

20" X 24" Oil

Undercut Bank

20" X 24" Oil

Stewart's House

Enter Text

20" X 24" Oil

Sailor Princess 1

20" X 24" Oil

Sailor Princess 2

Three paintings from a series of illustrations for the Stephan Olson story, The Sailor Princess.

20" X 24" Oil

Window 1

20" X 24" Oil

Window 2

20" X 24" Oil

Window 3

20" X 24" Oil

Sailor Princess 3

Windows from the neighborhood.

16" X 19" Watercolor

Ron

20" X 24" Oil

Sam Explains Things

These paintings were done on hardboard and were graphic representaions of fish themes. There were about eight.

18" X 18" Oil

Brook Trout

The fisherman himself.

13 1/2" X 13 1/2" Oil

Swan Lake

Big Fruit

31" X 35" Oil

Red Tomatoes

31" X 36" Oil

Orange Tomatoes

31" X 35" Oil

Pears

21" X 23" Oil

Fiesta

24" X 26" Oil

Bowls

21" X 20" Oil

Tea Bowl

Painting crockery was a nice mix of graphic color and realism. Bowls are something, something real, but they're really about potential, which by the time I got around to painting these I was feeling that I was running short on.

10" X 12" Oil

NGC 3rd Green

10" X 12" Oil NGC Geese on the 5th

10" X 12" Oil

Florida behind Beasley 1

10" X 12" Oil

Florida behind Beasley 2

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