I've been working on The Ocean Series for more than thirty years. I guess you could say that this conflation of a traditional marine sunset with a color-field painting, something that originally crossed my mind sometime back in 1978, has turned out to be a fairly fertile idea for me. Call it a Remodernist approach to the color-field tradition if you like, but I'm not trying to deconstruct anything, fit into any category, or prove any theories. The ocean, with its infinite variety and constant flux, is a motif that never ceases to fascinate me; and to say that this image of the far horizon and the dying sunlight has broad metaphoric powers would be to belabor the obvious. My two greatest influences as a painter have been Mark Rothko and Claude Monet; in a way, my paintings are only a kind of simple-minded formal synthesis of the two. At least, I hope they're that good.

The Ocean Series

The Ocean Series is a remodernist response to the color-field paintings of Mark Rothko. Intriguing, calm, and evocative, these richly colored and detailed images appeal to serious art lovers, those who meditate, and ocean lovers as well.

Ocean Series Prints

These affordable, high quality ink-jet prints on acid-free, 100% rag paper are based on digital scans of the original acrylic-on-canvas paintings from The Ocean Series.