12×18 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a 2 ½ inch gold florentine frame.

A favorite drive down the coast to Leenaun over to Lough Mask by Lough Nafooey and back up along Lough Mask to Castlebar.

a bright road to the future.

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Shadows and mysteries in the Old City, Florence

Shadows and mysteries in the Leather District, Florence. Santa Croce is a few hundred yards to the right.

THIS HAS SOLD. THANK YOU.

There is a smaller framed version of Red Bicycle 2 available on this page.

You can order a signed print on rag paper at this link.

15×30 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a gold florentine frame.

It is easy to be forward looking during Spring in the Val d’Orcia

8×12 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a 2 inch gold florentine frame.

8x16 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a gold florentine frame.

DONATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

A scene from West Falmouth harbor that reminds me that the way into a safe harbor can often be a dangerous passage.

20x30 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas and framed in a 2 inch gold florentine frame.

This is a unique piece

Ballston a few years ago

pigment ink print on vinyl in a black wood frame, mounted on stretched canvas.  24×48.

This villa sits outside of Pienza in the Val d’Orcia. Easily accessible to the main road, it is much photographed. It is iconic.

It is also probably the image in which I went furthest in the direction of abstraction, as I sought a painterly, impressionistic look. I can’t promise that I won’t revisit this style sometime later.

14x18 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas and framed in a 3 inch black florentine frame with gold trim.

#6 of 15: varnished - 24x34 image, 26×36 overall. 24×34 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, backed by stretched canvas. In a cherry-stained natural wood frame.

16x24 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a 2 inch gold florentine frame.

This image comes from years I was partially spending in Ireland, a return to roots, an attempt to build a marriage across the Atlantic, an exploration of a land oddly familiar and strange. The sky was spectacular this day, it always was actually as the weather blew into county Mayo on the west coast from the Atlantic.

The lone visitor to the scene besides me, a woman doing her power walk on the beach leant purpose and perspective to the drama of the sky. Perhaps a quest we can all share.

This image comes from Quissett Harbor Boatyard. The very careful and precise sanding of the side of a boat caught my attention, and during a very thorough conversation with the man giving so much care I took this picture and obtained his permission to use and publish it.

My thought about this is that the mask hanging from his neck almost takes me into the operating room, and reminds me of the standard and duty of care that human beings have towards the work and people and things that they are responsible for, whether they are surgeons or sanders.

12x18 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas and framed in a 2.5 inch custom gold florentine frame.

This frame is beautiful. It is a custom made, hand rubbed wooden frame covered in gold (not real gold) paint. I believe it is a Hackman frame.

This image is my conscious homage to Vermeer.

“Knotting a Persian Rug” link had been praised many times as reminding viewers of Vermeer, a compliment that sent me into Vermeer’s life and body of work in order to better understand what people were saying.

In this Florentine Palazzo in the Santo Spirito district, the pensione Sorelle Bandine, I recognized the characteristic light from a window and sturdy armadio and table that might be found in the 17th century and in one of Vermeer’s interiors.

I asked the cleaning lady of the pensione to pose for me, interrupting her work; I don’t usually ask people to pose. She took the opportunity to rest, even close her eyes.

I salute Vermeer.

12x18 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas and framed in a 2.5 inch custom gold florentine frame.

This frame is beautiful. It is a custom made, hand rubbed wooden frame covered in gold (not real gold) paint.

This image comes from a very challenging transitional time for me. Someone I was chatting with on Match once asked me “what did it take to get that shot” . I answered, “a year’s nervous breakdown”. I was in the last gasps of a quest for a Ph.D. in medieval European history at Harvard, but I didn’t have a dissertation topic yet, my spouse was in her Fulbright year finishing up hers. I was wondering whether I could “do something with my photography”, I had palpitations every time I got in a vehicle. It was a challenging year.

But….. when people say “that reminds me of a Vermeer”, I feel it was all worth it. The first time I heard this, I had to go find out who Vermeer really was and I did. I accept the compliment. I love light the way he did, I appreciate the probability that he set up his scenes through a lens…. I can feel the lens when I look at his paintings, but I don’t want to die bankrupt the way he did. Maybe this (I almost wrote painting) will be more valuable if I do, but I think it is inherently pretty valuable. If you do, I hope you will give it a home.

12x18 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas and framed in a 2.5 inch custom gold florentine frame.

By the way, this frame is truly truly beautiful. It is a custom made, hand rubbed wooden frame covered in gold (not real gold) paint. I forget what it cost, but somewhere between 25 and 50% of the price of this piece.

This is a very beautiful photograph in a very beautiful frame.

"Conversation", archival inkjet print, 20x30 image, 24x34 overall, printed on rag paper, mounted with BEVA (archival) on a birch panel, in an unfinished wood frame.  

spirits in Cape Cod Bay space

pigment ink print on rag paper in an black wood frame, mounted on stretched canvas.  24×34.

a grand view over Cape Cod Bay to Provincetown

pigment ink print on vinyl in a black wood frame, mounted on stretched canvas.  24×48.

DONATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

10x15 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a black florentine molding with gold trim .

16x24 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board and framed in a 2 inch gold florentine frame.

24x34 inch pigment ink print on rag paper,  mounted on canvas board, framed in a contemporary frame.   

24x34 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board.  

24x34 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas board.  Framed in a cherry stain wood frame.

A scene from West Falmouth harbor that reminds me that the way into a safe harbor can often be a dangerous passage.

20x30 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, mounted on canvas and framed in a 2 inch gold florentine frame.

hope in the plague year

pigment ink print on vinyl in n black wood frame, mounted on stretched canvas.  24×34.

SOLD

a serious convesation at a serious time

pigment ink print on rag paper in an black wood frame, mounted on stretched canvas.  24×34.

pigment ink print on rag paper, varnished, backed by a stretched canvas, in a black shadow box frame.

this is a version of an image from 2012, taken at Chapoquoit Beach, and inspired by a visit to the museum of fine arts in Boston, and a pair of Rothko paintings there, as well as discussions with a friend about Delacroix' use of neutrals and development of color theory.

18x36 inch pigment ink print on rag paper, mounted on an aluminum panel, framed in a contemporary cherry-stained frame.    Ready to hang.  

This house sits under Corn Hill and looks over its beach.  Sun, shore and promise of much more.

pigment ink print on rag paper in an unfinished wood frame, mounted on a canvas covered birch panel.  17x22" image on 17x22" sheet.  

dead low tide leaves the ocean's footprint in the sand.

this is #1 of an edition limited to 100 prints on 17x22 paper.

pigment ink print on rag paper in an unfinished wood frame, mounted with Beva on a birch panel.   13x18" image on 17x22" sheet.  edition of 100.  $400