I've been selected as a participating artist in the "Painting by the sea" exhibit sponsored by the ACM Gallery in Manchester-by-the-sea.  In association with the Manchester Arts Festival, my work will be exhibited in a group show during the month of July at the Manchester Historical Society's Trask House.  A reception and awards ceremony will be held on Friday, July 24.  For more information about the show, visit the ACM Gallery exhibition page.

This year I was invited to participate in the Secret Garden Tour, sponsored by the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Artists were located in four different spectacular private gardens, and buses carried the viewers to us. It was a wonderful event and a beautiful day. I painted two landscapes, the first of which is in progress in this picture. The second one I sold right off the easel! Later, our work hung in the museum for two weeks. Proceeds benefited the Museum, a non-profit institution. (You can also read about it in the Harwich Oracle.)

I just completed a commission for a couple who lives in Danvers. The new owner plans to give the painting as a wedding gift to some close friends.