Landscape Painter
Landscape has been my primary motif for more than thirty years. In the art of painting, the landscape motif symbolizes the conceptions and feelings people hold in relation to nature. I choose to paint landscape because of my boyhood intimacy with nature and because I believe that the most urgent challenge facing humanity is to discover a viable way to live with nature. I also believe art can have a transformative social role.
My paintings are my dream of a possible future. They express a gentle, intelligent and caring involvement with the land. They are about an attitude, perhaps like that of a good gardener.
Fly Fishing Mid-May — 68″ x 92″
Fly Fishing Mid-May, donated to the Surrey Art Gallery, is certified as a national treasure. Read more about this painting.
Download a pdf catalog of the 2010 show. This show was featured in Galleries West Magazine.
In 2020, my wife, painter Ann Nelson, and I were deeply honoured to receive a Surrey Civic Treasure Award, an honour presented every four years.