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Six years ago my daughter Naomi and I stapled an enormous primed canvas to the wall, in anticipation of a new, grand work. An exhibition slatted for the Fall of 2022 at the Huntsville Museum of Art drove the desire to have a large visual statement piece for the show. Thus was born ‘ The Beacons of Gondor’.

A family trip to Iceland in 2021 fueled the inspirations for this landscape and provided the raw materials for references, details, and emotional majesty we experienced while there. It is a pleasure to be able to channel so many varied passions and interests into a single work of art, celebrating landscapes, nature, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth!