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One of the many things I enjoy doing the most is painting and sketching. My utmost goal is to capture the beauty of wildlife, from a resting buck in the meadows of Pennsylvania, to the thundering herd of wild horses below the peaks of the Rocky Mountains in Montana.

Here in the valley of the Tuscarura Mountain in Pennsylvania, I consider myself extremely fortunate. I am witness to the wildness and beauty of this place and I try to express those same qualities in my art work. I hope to someday bring wonder and admiration of wildlife into homes that are not fortunate enough to look upon such beauty, the majestic mountains, the gracefulness of a prancing deer, or the elk sounding the bugle. Maybe I'll bring fond memories to an elderly man or an elderly lady, memories of the wonderful hunting moments they had with their sons and daughters, and each other.

Black and white art is my true talent, but I have recently been successful with a color painting of a deer bedded down in a meadow in the brightness of the morning. To create this painting, I found the photograph in a Pennsylvania Field & Stream magazine a neighbor gave us. It took me three days to complete the project, and a wonderfully realistic painting was the outcome. I titled it "Resting on the Sabbath", clearly meaning that this nocturnal buck had indeed been given a calendar. I have painted others that are semi-realistic; "The Getaway", "Before the Run", and "The Monster" are a few of them.

"The Getaway" is of a trophy buck splashing his way through flooded fields, not stopping to give the chance of a shot. In the second painting, one unaware doe continues to graze in a field as two bucks and two other does, with tails up, gaze directly at you "Before the Run". In the third, you look on as "The Monster" eludes you yet again by standing on the horizon, the boundary beyond unknown.