Firehouse Gallery

I have worked in photography from age 16, and have utilized whatever materials are at hand since my youth for creative expression in a variety of media, including installation. I visually explore and capture images via digital photography on a near-daily basis = a practice of “observation” and form of “sketching” for me.

Teaching Creativity, Color & Design and Art History for 10 years at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College, and assisting at the area Veterans Administration Healing Arts Center, have been a “fit” for my “multi-disciplinary” creative mode. I am presently mentoring a number of “creatives” and curating and assisting them in exhibiting their work.

While I have chosen only photography for this Firehouse Gallery posting, my teaching and volunteer work with veterans prompted a “return” to acrylic painting, working with interference acrylics, gold and silver leaf, collage elements, mixed media “specimen boxes” and working poetry and images together into chapbooks. These appear in my Firehouse exhibit area and in member shows at various times.

Regardless of medium, I am about contemplatively “seeing,” both inward and outward. I aim at synthesis and universals to depict personal “inscapes” and the “isness” of things – daily life, faith, local landscape, our turbulent times, detritus, and the majesty and mysteries of light, sky,
wind, earth, water and Spirit.