Gilded Yellow Iris Painting

I am an American artist based in New England and use ancient mediums to paint in oil and egg tempera. I fell in love with painting at the age of nine and more recently with egg tempera after taking workshops with the master egg tempera painter Koo Schadler. As a representational artist (realist without being photo realism) I take a naturalist's and painterly, not a romanticist's perspective, seeing the gemlike qualities of everyday scenes and objects: iridescence, color changes where light hits a curve, shapes refracted through a water-filled glass bottle, shadows and reflections in landscapes and interiors. Choosing the representational style and small to medium sized paintings, I search for the meditative beauty in the ordinary and the extraordinary in the often overlooked, things not seen with a fleeting glance. While I like to push against the precision needed for egg tempera painting, I also like the spontaneity of oiI. I also love music and play the piano, the cello and do a fair amount of gardening which you'll often see in many of my paintings.