OIL PAINTINGS
I was first introduced to oil painting in 2010, and since then it has become my medium of choice. Over the years, I have produced hundreds of commissioned works and exhibited in multiple shows. This portfolio presents a curated selection of those pieces. I am currently working on a new series for 2026 celebrating Boston (my adopted hometown). Please feel free to connect regarding commissions.
Lake Superior
Size: 18 x 24 canvas
My early years working in oil were spent in Duluth, Minnesota. That landscape shaped my love for painting, especially through places like the Boundary Waters and the vast presence of Lake Superior. This painting, which now resides in the College of St. Scholastica (my alma mater) library, is an ode to my first home in America.
Mesa Arch
Size: 18 x 24 canvas
Sunrise at Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park is legendary: the rising sun perfectly frames the vast canyon, casting a fiery, golden-orange glow under the rock arch, illuminating the distant La Sal Mountains.
Abstract Painting
There are moments when I have much to say but cannot find the right landscape, the right object, or the right words. In those moments, color becomes my language. I discovered expressive abstraction in 2015, and over the years I have created many works in this style. Below, I share a selection of those pieces.
Size: 24 x 36 canvas
Inspired by a visit to Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet, and by William Shakespeare’s line, “These violent delights have violent ends.”
Violent Delights
Size: 24 x 24 canvas
This piece began with one idea and finished as something entirely different. Much like life, not everything unfolds the way we imagine at the start. I chose to leave it as it wanted to be.
Stare
Gallery
Enjoy this gallery of additional oil paintings. It is not complete. Not even close. These are the few I managed to photograph.
For years, I painted the way some people live, fully and without keeping receipts. Paintings were sold, gifted, commissioned and sent off into the world before I thought to document them. What remains here are fragments. A visual paper trail of movement across places, shifting brushstrokes, new obsessions, and evolving ways of seeing. If you look closely, you might catch the story between the colors.
