Liberty and Barnard

Everywhere I go, I see a potential painting right in front of me that I’d love to create right there and then with my brushes and oils. Sometimes, I’m able to stop and record what I see en plein air. Other times, however, I only have time to snap a quick photo and take some notes to remind myself what I just witnessed. Later, these snapshots often become my special ‘Studies and Small Works’ that I sometimes use as references for larger works. Everyday beauty can be found in an old man sitting on a park bench, or while looking up at a street lamp at dusk, or witnessing a unique color scheme in the sky after a storm, sitting in your car in heavy traffic, or seeing the impact of light reflecting through the Spanish Moss in one of Savannah’s many Squares and parks. If you’re like me, those unique small spaces in your home are used for intimate, lovely & small paintings—each to remind you that there is a great big fabulous world just outside your front door.