Hello and thank you for visiting my art page. I have been heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and more recently Childe Hassam. Their use of thick texture, bold brushstrokes and vivid colors has inspired me and helped make me the artist I am today. Art has played an important role in my life and I am thankful for the inspiration and joy it has brought me through the years.

As an enthusiastic and eager young boy I often drew my favorite superheroes out of comic books. For years I spent countless hours lying on the floor with colored pencils drawing Captain America, Spiderman and many others. As I grew a bit older my interests turned to sports and girls.

By the time I turned 22 I found myself married with a beautiful daughter. Soon thereafter my interest in art began to return. I started drawing again for fun and entered a contest from the back of a matchbook cover. I won the contest and got a free home trial course from the Minnesota School of Art. I completed the course and received basic drawing skills along with a certificate of completion. This small but important achievement set the stage for my career.

I started a minimum wage job at Keezer Mfg in Plaistow, NH, hand drawing letters on banners and pennants. sIx months later I was running their art department. But unfortunately the money and benefits were not good.

In the pursuit of more income and insurance I left the job at Keezer in 1980 and started working for AT&T in North Andover, MA as an entry level hand inserter. And as luck would have it, a job opening in their art department was posted and with my certificate from Minnesota School of Art and my experience at Keezer, I got the job. AT&T offered a great tuition reimbursement program which I took full advantage of by enrolling in Massachusetts College of Art in Boston as a painting major. It was very difficult with a family, working full time and going to school but I stuck with it and in 1992 I graduated and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

I paint with the same passion and enthusiasm I had as a young boy. Over the years I have painted at many different events and projects like my personal challenge to paint one "cube" every day for a year which was extremly challenging. Some other notable events include the 2016 invitation to go to Poland and test as painter forth the feature film "Loving Vincent" A movie about the life of Vincent Van Gogh which was made from 67,000 oil paintings, it was a wonderful experience. Later that year I was also hired by the town of Amesbury to paint live at the finish line of the Fireball Run in downtown Amesbury. Painting like this has continued at events like the Green Stride Running Race, Amesbury's Misic in the Pines, the "Tea Party" at the John Greenleaf Whittier Home/Museum, a week painting at the Floyd Virginia Plein Air Competition and two week long stints in 2019 and 2022 as the Artist in Residence on Star Island of the Isles of Shoals just mention a few. Live painting still happens for me every year at the end of July to the beginning of August at the Sunflower Festival at Coppal House Farm in Lee, NH where my work is raffled to benefit the NH Make A Wish Program. I have also done many connissioned paintings including but not limited to a 2022 large 4'x8' painting of Hampton Beach for the State of NH which hangs in the Hampton Courthouse, a painting of the Grist Mill at Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, MA and many paintings of the Nubble Lighthouse in York, Maine.

It has been an amazing journey to become the painter I am today. Currently you can see me frequently painting on Marginal Way in Ogunquit Maine. Here I capture the moving ocean waters, waves crashing against the beautiful rocky coastline and the colorful plant life that grows in the area. I am very lucky that a lot of people love my work. Many of these painting sell to the people vacationing in the area or to people with special memories as in weddings, engagements, anniversaries etc. I ship anywhere and have sent paintings off to most US states. I even have paintings out of this country. The paintings were purchased here and brought to Canada and even one to Italy. If you would like to commission me or purchase any of my work please inquire at the "Contact Page" here on this site.

 

Thank you kindly for your interest. It is greatly appreciated.

Ron