About

    I started my career in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands where I painted and sold numerous landscapes, still lifes and portraits. I exhibited my work in the Old Custom House in 1977 as featured Artist of the month. I have also painted and sold scenes of Madison Wisconsin, Annapolis Maryland, Appalachian mountains towns and Canada countryside, as I always captured various scenes on my travels. I have resided in Austin for 14 years and have had an active studio in Austin for 7 years located at 1704 1/2 South Congress, where I maintain my Art Business, Sailaway Designs, in which I specialize in original fine art paintings, unique silk screens, and free form ceramics. I maintain a caribbean theme, but paint the Austin skyline and some other places in Texas, Kerville and the Guadalupe river.
    My work has been coined as “Primitive” by dealers from the Virgin Islands and New York. I paint from what I see and attempt to match the colors exactly, which can appear unbelievable to some. Some say this gives the pictures a storybook effect. I see them as a window into a time and place in the real world. I believe that my painting take on a historical value as they record “the way things were” and as the times and the scenes change they hold this record of the past. I have captured many fine details, as in my Austin scenes, which seem to “date” the paintings. Signs, buildings and streets change and soon they recall a history of times and places. My 3 Austin scenes record the old First Street bridge. My St. Croix Scene is a series of 6 paintings that all connect to form a 360 degrees circle of the view from atop a mountain on the east end of the island. This forms a sequence of landscape and would truly be unique displayed in a round room. Some scenes I paint again, a year later, to record a different mood of the day, time of the year and different weather conditions. They are the same scene but completely different paintings.