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I started oil painting in 1981, I always liked to draw, but I never felt I was good at drawing.  I bought a paint set and  I set out to paint my first painted   inspired from a cover of  an outdoor magazine, a buck running through a group of birch trees.  I never had an art class but I learned through experimenting.  It wasn't the best but it didn't discourage me.  After a few landscape paintings which I have since destroyed, I tried to paint portraits of people. I found my niche and continued with portraits, and occasionally paint a landscape.  

I unfurled my first painting to my grandmother, she told me her father use to paint (He worked for the Lehigh Railroad and later became a farmer) later in his life.   She showed me a few of his works that she had, and asked if I would make a copy of one of his paintings which belonged to my uncle. It was an oil on cardboard of the house she grew up in when she was a child.  I copied his painting and she proudly hung it on her kitchen wall.  My family talks about how it skipped two generations and now I'm the painter in the family.  I Have painted a portrait for my cousin of her children.  Every time I see her, she tells me she still has it hanging in her living room. 

This is a collection of some of my work, wish I could say they are originals, but models are scarce in Williams Township and I used pictures I found in magazines and books to get inspired.  What you see here is some of my best work to date, that I still have.  I gave many away as gifts and wish I had a photographs of them.  I don't paint as often as I use to but I still have some works that are progress.  Some of them I may never finished

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Gallery One