I call myself. a localist; my paintings depict scenes close to home, although I am traveling more to find painting sights.  I prefer the rustic natural scenes:  old trees, mossy rocks,  rivers snd creeks,  and occasionally cabins, fences,  and roadways.  Rarely I find people of interest, like in the "swimmers at Audra Park" painting,  usually I am. too shy to ask people to co-operate.

 I have spent most of my life with a small family, wife and two daughters, in a remote West Virginia mountain village named Helvetia, home to a number of local Swiss customs.  I still have my lovely wife, and at times the daughters.  In our senior years we have moved to a larger town,  Buckhannon, still close to Helvetia. 

I enjoy music: play guitar with fiddlers, and mandolins, and singers.  I direct an occasional choir and am active in church

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