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These prints are created using zinc plates on which the images are developed using a variety of drawing and soft ground processes. They are then printed in limited editions. In some instances the skies have been tinted by rolling a tone onto an inked, wiped plate. In other cases, color is added by hand after the prints have dried.

Prints are matted in cream, acid-free mats.

Framed prints are matted and framed in silver chrome frames with plexiglas.

Prints can be purchased without mats or frames – prices on request.

Berkshire Winter Series (5)

England Series (3)

Harbingers

Harbingers

In late April, if one is lucky, the daffodils finally appear in bloom, marking the “hot spots” in the yard by the order of their bloom.  Carefully watched from their first tentative peek through the ground, they truly deserve the distinction of being harbingers of the actual Spring, one that appears long after the calendar’s denotation of same.  Sheltered and warmed by a rock wall and its reflected warmth, these are often the first ones in our yard to bloom.

  • Size: 4"h x 5"w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
Haystack Winter

Haystack Winter

Pennsylvania farmland in winter inspired this print as well as several others. This scene was unusual because of the haystacks that were marching across the field and over the horizon.

  • Size: 9”h x 9”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $140.00
Hilltop Garden

Hilltop Garden

This print began with the rock, the daylilies, and the birches, all of which I encountered one day walking on Vinalhaven. From that section it grew, with the addition of standard Maine garden fare and not a great deal of sunlight thanks to the overhead tree cover.

  • Size: 6”h x 8”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $125.00
  • Framed: $160.00
Hints of Spring

Hints of Spring

My mother and I often walk by this house on our “constitutionals”.  The changes that take place in the vegetation on the yard as Spring unfolds are wondrous.  The colors evolve with amazing speed, so that each time we go by it looks different.  After several years of marveling, I decided to try to get it down on paper.

  • Size: 6”h x 8”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $125.00
  • Framed: $160.00
Hollyhock Homage

Hollyhock Homage

The hardy nature of hollyhocks has a great deal of appeal, and I have spent many hours and much effort trying to insure that there is always a supply of them in my garden. The low stone wall is part of my garden as well, as are the chairs. So, this setting provides the perfect invitation to morning coffee or an evening glass of wine.

  • Size: 6”h x 8”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $125.00
  • Framed: $160.00
Iconic Isle

Iconic Isle

All prints in this edition have been sold.

There is perhaps no image more perfectly symbolic of Maine than a spruce-topped granite island, whatever its size. To board a boat and travel to a populated offshore island is an adventure akin to transporting oneself to a foreign land. Setting sail almost anywhere along the coast provides images of smaller islands of varying sizes, some populated by seals or birds; others topped with trees that cling tenaciously to land bereft of soil. Those familiar with a place called Christmas Cove might put this scene there, but it is, in fact, an iconic Maine image that could be in one of many coastal locales.

  • Size: 4”h x 5” w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
In the Sunflower Jungle

In the Sunflower Jungle

One summer my zinnias were quite productive and deserved to be saved in an image. They seemed dwarfed, though, by the jungle of giant sunflower stems among which they had grown.

  • Size: 3”h x 4”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $55.00
  • Framed: $80.00
Island Garden

Island Garden

Although this print began on Hurricane Island, I suspect this island garden could be found on many of the islands off the coast of Maine.  The original sketches for this print were done while I was visiting friends on Hurricane.  As sometimes happens, I feared this print would be a disaster - the drawing went together too easily, it seemed, and when I pulled the first proof I was amazed at how well everything worked.  Clearly it was a picture that was, from the outset, “meant to be”.

  • Size: 8”h x 6”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $125.00
  • Framed: $160.00
Island Garden II

Island Garden II

This image is a composite, a scene of more than one garden I have seen growing on various islands off the Maine coast. It marries a number of things that are visually appealing to me – flowers, islands off the coast, and rock walls – all things that are very easy to find in Maine.

  • Size: 4”h x 3”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: ​$55.00
  • Framed: ​$80.00
Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

As a child when I occasionally found one of these plants in the woods I marveled at it and thought it a magical rarity. I went back to look for them each year, often without success.  When I moved to Maine I transplanted several from a friend’s garden in Massachusetts, but they didn’t take, as wild flowers are picky about soil and location.  One day I discovered a whole host of them in our woods, moved a few, and they took hold in force. Now they are an annual source of delight, far grander and larger than those ones I first discovered years ago.

  • Size: 4"h x 3"w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $70.00
  • Framed: $95.00
January Scent

January Scent

To brighten the winter, we always plant paper whites just after the new year. Two successive plantings can get you into mid-February, when the lengthening of the days is slightly perceptible. Filling the house with a delectable scent, the paper whites do their job of making gardening a winter sport of sorts and providing a hopeful touch to a challenging time of year.

  • Size: 5"h x 4"w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
July

July

Ubiquitous orange day lilies dress up gardens and rock walls for much of July. This image of lilies, rocks, and a view across the bay can offer me, in the dead of winter, a reassuring reminder of summer's golden Maine days.

  • Size: 4”h x 3”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $55.00
  • Framed: $80.00
July Bouquet

July Bouquet

Though she is no longer able to work in the garden, my mother has no difficulty putting together a bouquet.  This was one of her offerings from a season that provides an excellent variety of blooms.

  • Size: 5"h x 4"w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
July's Tigers

July's Tigers

Many folks refer to these flowers as tiger lilies. For my part, I call them wild day lilies, differentiated from the many varieties of carefully cultivated hybrids that are presently available. For a gardener in Maine, these plants are a staple, as they have numerous helpful attributes. You can be sure they'll bloom throughout the month of July; they will grow in any type of soil; they are undeterred by road salt and sand; they hold no interest for pests; and, they are ignored by deer. Once in place, these beauties take virtually no care. They are, though, not for sale at the garden center, so if you don't have any, you'll need to find a neighbor who'll share.

  • Size: 4”h x 5”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
June Lupines

June Lupines

I first met lupines many years ago in Germany on a trip in early June, and liked them and their little mitten-shaped blossoms immediately. I tried unsuccessfully to grow them where I lived in Maryland at the time. It was just too hot for them there. Now, though, in Maine's June lupines provide seas of blue and purple spikes to cheer the soul.

  • Size: 4”h x 5”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
La Romieu Chat #1

La Romieu Chat #1

The village of La Romieu in southern France is noted for its 12th century Collegiate Church of St. Pierre which began life as a Benedictine priory. It also has a village legend about Angeline, a young orphan who saved a couple of cats during a famine that caused the population to eat all the cats. When things improved the crops, in turn, were consumed by rats and mice that had proliferated in the absence of felines. Angeline then released her hidden cats and saved the village from a new famine. Whether one believes the tale or not, it is hard not to be enchanted by the cat sculptures that now appear in odd places about the village. My three “chat” prints are the result of my visit to La Romieu.

  • Size: 5”h x 4”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
La Romieu Chat #2

La Romieu Chat #2

The village of La Romieu in southern France is noted for its 12th century Collegiate Church of St. Pierre which began life as a Benedictine priory. It also has a village legend about Angeline, a young orphan who saved a couple of cats during a famine that caused the population to eat all the cats. When things improved the crops, in turn, were consumed by rats and mice that had proliferated in the absence of felines. Angeline then released her hidden cats and saved the village from a new famine. Whether one believes the tale or not, it is hard not to be enchanted by the cat sculptures that now appear in odd places about the village. My three “chat” prints are the result of my visit to La Romieu.

  • Size: 4”h x 5”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
La Romieu Chat #3

La Romieu Chat #3

The village of La Romieu in southern France is noted for its 12th century Collegiate Church of St. Pierre which began life as a Benedictine priory. It also has a village legend about Angeline, a young orphan who saved a couple of cats during a famine that caused the population to eat all the cats. When things improved the crops, in turn, were consumed by rats and mice that had proliferated in the absence of felines. Angeline then released her hidden cats and saved the village from a new famine. Whether one believes the tale or not, it is hard not to be enchanted by the cat sculptures that now appear in odd places about the village. My three “chat” prints are the result of my visit to La Romieu.

  • Size: 5”h x 4”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
Le Cimetiere des Artistes

Le Cimetiere des Artistes

I have always liked the visual landscapes of cemeteries, particularly those that are old with simple, classic markers. I had done the initial drawing for this plate but felt it lacked something. It sat for quite some time, and then one day I had the idea to gather my favorite artists together and commemorate them with images from their work. Thus was born my artists’ cemetery.

  • Size: 9”h x 9”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $140.00
Le Pigeonnier

Le Pigeonnier

This wonderful little structure, no doubt well into its second or third century, once housed what was an important major food source. Though the loft still has residents, these days this building’s primary use is as a garden shed. It’s accompanied by a well-filed supply of roof tiles, stones, slabs of wood, and stakes, thus covering nearly all eventualities. Newly sprouting leeks graced the first rows of this year’s potager when I did this image in the early days of Spring.

  • Size: 5”h x 4”w image size
  • Unframed & Matted: $80.00
  • Framed: $110.00
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