Seasons of change...reflections and retrospects of our lives

We are a landscape of all we have seen.
- Isamu Noguchi

Angels part 2...a walk through the past

Angels in this serenity garden place...

I sit on the old stone benches and enjoy the peace and serenity these statues afford when I visit the Forest Cemeteries and Gardens in Utica. This time of the year the geese can be heard honking overhead, masked occasionally by the rustling of the falling leaves as the wind gently blows. The statues now are often backdropped by a glorious blaze of autumn color, or set off against a cerulean blue sky or the salmons and crimsons of an autumn sunset. Each visit and the four seasons guarantee a different experience each time I visit, which often helps to motivate my creativity.

Butterfly Dreams Series

Late summer images...

Late Summer the first touch of autumn in the garden...

This was one of those perfect days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
--Sarah Orne Jewett

The American Experience

"Nothing I have been told about these people is correct. They are not beggars and thieves. They are not the boogey men they are made out to be. On the contrary, they are polite guests and I enjoy their humor." ~John Dunbar/Dances With Wolves




In studying and drawing these native American images from the 19th and early 20th century, you see in the eyes of these proud and beautiful people; loss,pain and anger.

Pen drawings