See my page with Art Span for prints and frames of a few works at

https://gmstearns.artspan.com

For decades, I have masked my interest in making art with peripheral careers such as art education or landscape architecture, or even avoiding it altogether with office jobs or massage therapy. Finally, I have allowed myself to focus on painting. I have a strong background in design, but I am largely a self-taught oil painter.

When painting, the possibilities are endless and can be overwhelming. Subject, style, and color palette could be carried in many directions. By setting a limitation on size and working smaller, the act of producing and finishing a painting becomes more manageable. The discipline of returning to the easel daily becomes easier. Carol Marine’s Daily Painting book has been tremendously helpful as a guide to getting and staying with it!

I love nature and design, particularly the spaces between. The interaction of edges, background/foreground, positive space and negative space, shape and form are a constant delight.