Vibrant Textures of Imagination

Textured Creations

Discover how broken color and impasto techniques create depth, inviting viewers to engage with both the recognizable and the abstract in each artwork, sparking imagination and narrative completion.

Visual Narratives

Experience the balance of defined focal points and ambiguity, encouraging personal interpretation and emotional connection with each piece.

Artistry Unleashed

Through vibrant textures, I blend reality and abstraction, inviting viewers to engage with my art.

My portfolio showcases these techniques which evoke emotion and imagination in every piece.

I utilize broken color, impasto, and wet-on-wet techniques to create depth and intrigue in each piece, inviting viewers to engage with the narrative and explore their imagination. This creates dynamic, textured artwork that captivates.

Artistic Journey

My artwork is intuitive and a response to my emotions and surroundings. Exploring vibrant and sometimes dark, textured surfaces blending reality and abstract imagination. My work balances defined focal points with areas of ambiguity, encouraging personal interpretation and emotional connection, resulting in a distinctive artistic experience that resonates with the viewer.

Photographic Journey

My photography is all about exploring places on foot and letting the environment and my feelings guide what I capture. Whether it’s city streets, landscapes, or architecture, I focus on light, textures, and shapes to create images that go beyond just showing a scene - they aim to evoke mood and emotion. I like to play with abstraction and perspective to turn everyday moments into something a bit mysterious or dreamlike. For me, each photo is a way to share the experience of wandering and noticing the subtle stories and feelings hidden in the world around us.

Jim's artwork beautifully blends realism and abstraction, captivating viewers with its vibrant textures and imaginative narratives.

Sarah L.

★★★★★

About me...

I currently live on a barrier island on the Atlantic coast of Florida with my lovely wife. We love to travel and explore the world around us which gives me an expanded perspective for my subject matter. I'll usually bring a sketch book and my camera to capture the places we've visited and use those in my studio as inspiration for a painting or two. I'm drawn to the coast where the water, sea and sky meet. That seems to be a constant theme in my work. The immediacy of Plein air painting is something that I enjoy as well. The need to complete a painting in one go to capture the light has made me a better painter in the studio.

Largely self taught, with an occasional workshop here or there, I've been artistic all of my life and delve into learning more every with breath. It's the journey and the destination.

I love to let people interpret my art and photography. It should speak to you and tell you what it wants you to know. The story, the feeling, and emotion is what you bring to any art you see, and that's the way it should be.

As the very talented painter Harry Stoonshinhoff so aptly has put it, "It’s a big NOISY world, so I make small, quiet paintings." I wish I had come up with that one.