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Our paintings are borne of the love of good in all of us.
Ink blue night sky looms over jagged treetops covered with snow reflected in metallic paint of green-blue-silver and violet. The metallic paint reacts to the ambient light of the viewing area, creating an 'aliveness' on the surface of the painting...heightening optics.
Inky Night Winter Trees
11x14x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
January 3, 2026
Charles
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High textured to-be-touched painting. Background air and sky is a cobalt blue. The dried brambles are golden-ocher, streaked beet-red and sliced with black lines. There is a path through it into dark cobalt night.
Where The Deer Slept
9x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
December 2025
Paul
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An aerial view of a molten skyscape built of dulled metallic bronze gold and burnished red somewhat submerged in a frothy blue glaze. The painting is a bold, low relief, smooth, texture designed to be explored by touch.
Epitaph
17x17x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
December 2025
Paul
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Wind enters the lower left corner of the painting in flames of white and lemon-green-yellow. Rushing strokes, bends and bubbles of darker greens sway toward the ground and upward to the iridescent pale blue sky. Grasses reach in all directions and are hovering from top left to downright over an earthen red clay soil.
Wind Tossing About The Goliath Grasses
12x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
November 2025
Paul
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A close view of a woven reed basket filled with bright orange and red tomatoes and green and darker green peppers... adorned with small yellow sweet tomatoes.
While You Were In Italy
12x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Fall 2025
Paul
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A wet evening landscape under a sky that is blue with silver striated clouds. In the far distance, a hill with a wooded ridgeline rises above a spring l-lime-green field sprawling behind a row of chiseled-burgundy and rose trees. The foreground is an uncut grassy field in waves of heathered green, blonde, burgundy and blue. All these colors are metallic and interact with changing light.
Seeing Through
11x14x2 inches
metallic acrylic on canvas
11.02.2025
Charlie
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A close up 'selfie' of two men and their border-pointer on the way out for a day trip. The driver is a happy bear of a guy, furry beard, dark framed glasses, gray cap and a grin. The other man, in the passenger seat, is in navy blue over shirt, white tee, white beard. Tuscan, their dog, in his black and white fur with spots is leaning forward on the protective mesh. His tongue is out and his eyes are bright! Moving forward!
Family Truck
11x14x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
Paul
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A set of portraits of two men on a yellow background. Both men have on dark blue shirts. Both men are bearded with white-gray and matching hair. The men are older. Strong presence carried in their eyes.
Paul and Charlie
(2) 11x14x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2025
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A field of exploding colors: honey-gold -amber, crimson, olive-dark-green, light-orange-tangerine strewn with white under a sky filled with aqua-blue-violet against a camouflage of golds, amber, mint-greens flowing with violet-blue 'faeries'.
Into The Field
(3) 12x24x1 inch panels
oil on canvas
Charlie and Paul
initial collaboration 1983
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Set of three 5x7 inch paintings creating a panoramic beach scene on a bright day with a windy-blue sky, silver-white-foamy ocean, golden-ocher sand beach. The composition is bright and fresh and full of action on a beautiful 'last' day.
Last Day
(3) 5x7x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie and Paul
2017
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A portrait of a mature chestnut tree in a well-maintained park setting. Chestnuts and burrs and leaves are strewn about the ground. The tree's leaves are fading, yellow, green, and sienna. The twisted trunk is in many silver-gray-whites. The sky is crystal blue.
Autumn
36x48x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2024
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A set of two emblematic portraits of autumn blooming plants: goldenrod and iron weed. The left panel,goldenrod, is a heavy golden bloomed plant oceanside under blue sky with high clouds. The right panel, ironweed, is a full bloom purple plant with green leaves against a golden field under a cerulean blue sky.
Goldenrod And Ironweed
(2) 12x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020
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A gently winding stone path leads the viewer into a garden of flowers, trees, raised beds, white post light, shells, stones and richly glazed ceramic pots. Blooming is in a flood of high summer colors: red, pink, white, purple, blue, green and cinnamon. Details cover the canvas inviting the viewer to stay a while.
Summer
36x48x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2024
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A white and gray cat is lounging on a mowed path around a garden full of lush tall green ornamental grasses that have seed tassels of champagne-blonde to glowing bronze. The scene is held in by distant emerald green ridges under a deep cerulean blue sky.
Ru Ru And The Magic Grasses
18x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019
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An oceanside town under a champagne-white-violet sky. Yellow sand beaches border several rooflines and plotted dunes. The colors of the buildings are blue-gray. The roofs mostly dark forming a structurescape of sorts along a northern curve of the shore.
Roofs
24x18x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 1997
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A high-gloss high-textured landscape of a garden scene at the height of lush summer. Stones border a central garden with irises immersed in sun-golden soil. A background of flowering pink and lavender trees under a metallic silver-blue sky. Two white iris stand tall as a focal point showered with pink blooms of a vine climbing to a white pole.
Rebloomer
18x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2022
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A portrait of the classic white iris 'Immortality' reblooming in an early autumn. Its leaves are green-blue and smoothly curved in upward thriving growth. In the background a red roof rises this side of a pure light-blue sky bordered by cascades of golden leaves of giant miscanthus grass.
Immortality (Reblooming)
24x18x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2022
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A high-blue-pink sky above a dark ridge of green giving way to the sand roof and chimney of a singular cottage surrounded by many greens of a landscape with a detailed foreground of blue shade below tall grasses. A scarlet-crimson flower vine is splaying blooms in the mid ground. Evergreen branches hold a mugo pine in the dusky-blue foreground.
Out Back
24x18x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019
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Three bright blue oceanscapes of Assateague Island. The horizon is near mid-height of the canvases. One view is straight out over dark blue ocean. Another view is of a pile of conch shells with dotted green dunes up the beach with Ocean City in the very distant distance. The third is a southerly view of a lilac sand beach with distant darker green covered dunes forming an edge of the far-off horizon.
Three Assateagues
(3) 18x24x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 1998
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A late autumn view of a spray of tassled grasses in red, yellow and gold with white plumes screening the roofs of a couple cottages in a hilly landscape of umber and warm yellows. A bright composition of natural autumn.
Alley View
20x16x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2017
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Historic view of old Bethany Beach, Delaware. A simple small scape of structures from a penthouse balcony view jutting out into the white and blue space of the ocean and sky. Sketched brown-purple roofs cluster at the shore below.
Bethany Beach Penthouse Balcony View
20x16x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2006
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A panoramic view of a sky-ocean scene that is made of high and deep blues. The horizon is midline. The sky is full of smeared-white stretching clouds. The beach has wisps of wave crests touching cream and blush sands. Calm. Light.
Ocean
25x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2018
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Portrait of a mature man, silver hair, dark frame glasses, full beard, dark blue-green short sleeve shirt, beige drawstring shorts, bare feet on a stone path surrounded by cobalt blue pots with many white blooms, a post light, purple smoke tree branches and evergreens veiling the unusual opaque blue-violet air. Mists hover about the light.
Morning Mist
12x16x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020
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The second of three studies of a teal glass bowl in full light holding several pure lemon yellow lemons. The simplicity and color are joyous. The shadow is a teal glimmer on a gloss porcelain-white surface.
Lemons In A Blue Bowl
11x14x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2022
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A vertical white stucco porch wall serves to border a deep ultramarine blue sky and a forest of green growth. A pitch of a red metal roof is veiled in the foreground by a blue pine. The focal point is a red geranium in a clay pot on a weathered wooden slotted table.
White Wall
12x16x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020
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A garden view along a stone path that dissolves into an unfinished blue sky as it passes a raised garden bed and several plants in dark blue pots and some in a fire orange ceramic pot. Beautiful weaving of blue and greens in an organic setting.
Morning
16x20x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020
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A circular phase of 'uncountable' dots of hues rich in prismatic colors giving way to a passage formed by light in a near perfect roundness. Puddles of saturated primary colors form the entire composition in motion giving-way to more.
Infinity
24x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2012
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A vermilion sun rises over dark purple-black clouds in a blue sky space revealing sparkling glitter effects of stars high in the sky over a silver-blue morning ocean in dark hues of blue-gray.
Sunrise Delaware
5x7x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie 2017
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A portrait in high gloss texture of the iris Mother Earth. The standards are cream-white with tones of violet. The falls are lavender and rose-blue. The beards are orange. The bud at the throat is deep lipstick-red. A stone wall is in the background surrounded by lush green grass and shade.
'Mother Earth'
12x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019
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A very bright day view of windy-white sky with shades of light blue over a choppy ultramarine ocean noisily rushing to the shore washing and moving beach sands of ocher and green and turquoise and gold-amber.
Most Beautiful Day
9x12x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie 2017
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