Chronicling the natural world with brushes, paint, & canvas.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Life is a moving landscape,
once captured by voice and pen, and now with paint brush, & easel.
After decades in professional politics, my observer’s soul is now immersed in painting the clouds, water, docks, trees, mountains and landscapes in South Carolina and New England. I am drawn to the serenity and brilliance of these locations, and mindful of their strong histories and people. I hope their stories are within my paintings.
I am a plein air and studio painter working in oil.
Recent Work
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Through a Lowcountry Lens
Oil
24″ x 18″Available at Four Corners Fine Art Gallery
Bluffton, SC -
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Swift Water Marsh
Oil on Canvas
12″ x 28″ -
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Rising Light of Day
Oil on Canvas
12″ x 9″ -
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Oyster Trap
Oil on Canvas
24″ x 18″ -
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Fragile Shore
Oil on Canvas
20″ x 16″ -
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Home for the Night
Oil on Canvas
30″ x 40″Available at Four Corners Fine Art Gallery
Bluffton, SC
“Drenching clouds, trees draped in moss, freshwater rivers brined in salt, centuries of history that inform and inspire, these are the engines that propel my paintings.”
ARTIST FEATURE
Art and the Wisdom of Trees
THE BLUFF - SPRING/SUMMER 2023
Old trees radiate a kind of power, a presence. Much is made over the wisdom of trees, the metaphor of the seed that grows into the tree, the relationships between trees. But standing in the shade of an ancient tree, you can actually feel it. The live oak in Nancy Dwight’s backyard in the May River Forest neighborhood is one such tree. It is a sight to behold, its low arms dipping back into the earth and growing skyward again. Resurrection ferns grow from its shoulders and soft shafts of light filter through its canopy.
