Winter Haven Red Painted on location in the

Painted on location in the Great Smoky Mountains during a beautiful July morning

This landscape is based on an earlier study

A pedestrian contemplates her next move in midtown Manhattan

while we ate dinner at our home in central Pennsylvania

Winter Haven Red Painted on location in theThis landscape is the debut painting in my new series, "What's Your 20?" as I celebrate my 20th anniversary of working as a full time professional artist. I grew up in southern Wisconsin during an era when the daytime high within the first two weeks of January often never crested zero degrees Fahrenheit. I fear no cold weather; in fact, I relish it. To me, there's something restorative about the stripped down, bare bones clarity of freezing