I grew up in an artist’s home. My parents met at art school. I followed my dad into a life in academia as an art professor, teaching art first at Kent State University and later, Miami Dade College. During my forty years of teaching, I taught beginning level drawing and painting most often. But, in Miami, as an artist, the only work that I ever exhibited was abstract. Yet, at school, I was taking classes out every semester to draw or paint outdoors. The students had their assignments and I would sketch for an hour or two as they worked around me. But, I never showed these sketches. So I decided that when I retire from teaching, I will do more such work. I have been working on a series of twenty five 12” square paintings, mostly landscape referenced, of things and places glimpsed but not really noticed. I saw alot of it while walking, usually at dusk or in the evening. Much of this imagery originated in South Florida but now has been transplanted to Colorado where the light and the color are changing my palette once more.