THE LORD LIFT THE LAND

“A few years ago, I asked Ophelia about her 8 foot fishing boat, the one she used to go out into the ocean to she. She told me that she didn’t have the boat anymore. Because of my surprise she proceeded to tell me that her boat sank one mile from the coast when...

FAREWELL OPHELIA

Farewell Ophelia – October 2015 Dear Ophelia, For over 15 years you have been such an important part of my creative life. I often thought that I would have loved to see you go on forever, as you seemed to move through time like an eternal upbeat young lady. But...

LOUIS TAYLOR

Louis Taylor – January 2016 My encounter with Louis Taylor was one of those moments in life that just happened, unprepared and spontaneous. During one of my many adventures in search of subjects, I was walking down the street in Seymours, Long Island, when my...

A DAY AT THE FARM WITH OPHELIA

  This exhibition is the second chapter of my four year journey with Ophelia that began four years ago with the ‘crabbing day’ and continues with this ‘day at the farm’. “I‘ll take you to my farm. It is time to go because of the tide.” I wasn’t too sure what the...

CRABBING WITH OPHELIA

OPHELIA lets go crabbing!! That is the beginning of a great journey in the Long island bush. A wild world unknown to me. A world into which Ophelia is about to take me. This is her world. The comfortable way she moves through the bush, tells me she is at home. She has...