ARTIST STATEMENT

I try to capture the essence of baseball the way it was played many years ago. The players from this earlier time were often from America’s farms and mills. They did not play merely for money and most of them worked jobs in the off-season to simply to pay their bills. I find these old-time players and the game of that era fascinating. The players often played in dirty uniforms before small and large crowds in towns and cities across this country. They played baseball because they loved the game. I attempt to convey this uncomplicated way of being in my depictions of these men and women.

I am from a blue-collar family. My parents worked in the mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts which was once a vibrant industrial city. I think that due to the strong identification I have with working-class people I also feel an equally strong bond with these players who share perhaps similar backgrounds. I was once asked by an art teacher why I drew like an artist from the 1940’s. I think I know how to answer this question now.

I am a graduate of the New England School of Art & Design and worked as an award-winning advertising art director before making the jump to freelance illustration. I have completed commissions for well-known publications including Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Yankee, Scholastic, Boston Magazine and many more. My award-winning illustrations were done for prestigious companies such as Hasbro, John Hancock, Houghton Miflin and many more. When I am not creating new baseball imagery I enjoy painting the scenes around the coast of the North Shore of Massachusetts and Maine’s Monhegan Island.

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WATERCOLORS

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Black and White