My painting is a compulsive and spontaneous expression of my reaction to the natural play of light, shadow, color, and shape in the world of nature. Water’s Edge … I believe that painting is such a personal expression of my existence that it is hard to separate “me” from my work. My work was at one time strictly representational until 1962 when I began to experiment with watercolors, acrylics and mixed media taking my themes from nature but abstracting them. Water’s Edge is such a piece taking its theme from the sea in Charleston, SC where I spent my childhood seeing the ships come and go in Charleston Harbor. My father was a solicitor of freight for the Southern Railway and I went along with him to the docks checking on cargoes. The love of the sea began early and has never left me. I love living in the Piedmont but miss the activities involved around the waterfronts.