Spring

''Everything is flowing —going somewhere” John Muir

A Lady’s slipper ephemeral found just off Burton’s way on Blackstrap mountain in Falmouth, Maine. 22x20 oil on gessoed paper, not framed
Nymph unfurls. The fiddlehead of the ostrich fern unfurls in Harpswell's Long Reach Preserve. oil, 20x24x2 birch panels, edges painted chartreuse green.
Green Tuft. A puddle on Beach Hill Reserve near Rockland. Before trees have not yet leafed out but warmth and light has nourish a small grass tuft. 22x29” oil on gessoed paper, not framed.
summer puddle reflecting sky
Fiddleheads Uncurl. Several fiddlehead ferns unfurl in a marshy gully on Harpswell’s Land Trust. Oil on birch panel 22x29x2” with chartruese edges, not framed.
Dixville-pool is formed from a stream in Dixville notch 40x20x2”, oil diptych on cradled hinged panels with painted edges.
Spring runoff follows the contours of Blackstrap Hill to pool in a mossy reflective catch. Oil on gessoed paper 22x29” (with gray mat, light oak 1” frame)
(sold) Red emerges. A warm spring day worries a salamander from his hidey hole in Beech Hill Reserve. 29x22" oil on gessoed paper.
Raindrop. Dripping trees target a puddle while the sky clears 22x29” acrylic on embossed paper. suggested: float under glass framing.
Chartreuse Petite fleuve. Winding Penobscot feeder reflects the new green of spring.40 × 20’ diptych, oil on birch panel with wax varnish.
Liquidity. Abstract of flowing landscape and shapes in oil on paper mounted on birch panel, 29 × 22 × 2” wax varnished. Ready to hang.
A frog sat at my feet on this lilypad while I painted at the hockey pond in Kittery point.
star island on the Kennebec river has this marsh at its center

reflections of dried beech leaves in water