I began painting after transitioning from a successful photography business of 25 years. My work has always been influenced by my love of the natural landscape. I was brought up on a horse farm in VT and lived and traveled extensively throughout the US and abroad. It was always the varying landscapes that touched me deeply and inspired me to pick up the camera and more recently the paint brush. Photography has been extremely important in my transition to painting. It taught me to see and how to compose a compelling image. It also taught me the importance of light and the role it plays in a successful image. Painting has allowed me a different level of intimacy with the landscape. By slowing down and spending hours looking at a subject I see details and subtle nuances that went unnoticed when photographing the same landscape. What fascinates me after spending years of recording light with my camera is that I am now the creator of light in my paintings through the use of color and value. Currently I am living in Falmouth, Maine and my primary focus is painting the Northern New England landscape.