Photo by Dale Headrick

His favorite painters include Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent and the Canadian Group of Seven.

Greg believes strongly in the traditional technique of working quickly on location to achieve a spontaneous, fresh style that never becomes too labored or overly fussy. His work is represented in galleries across the country as well as in many prestigious collections.

Greg paints only on location in the tradition of the French Impressionists. He has no desire to paint from photographs preferring to see the subject "En Plein Air" as the French say, "Outdoors in natural light". "I think it's apparent when work is done on location", Greg says "And I hope that it is obvious in my work in terms of the quality of light, and feeling of specific time of day and weather conditions."

He likes to describe his work as having the energy and excitement of abstract expressionism without the abandonment of traditional elements of painting such as subject matter and 3 dimensional form.

News from the Sobrans: November 1, 2001

	Photo by Bruce Young

Greg and Wanda have just returned from Europe with 50 new paintings of Tuscany, Paris and the Riviera. The weather was warm and sunny for the entire 6 week trip and they had Europe to themselves as few Americans were venturing out. Even Parisienne shop owners were unusually friendly and aggressive as they feel the lack of American tourist dollars.

Tuscany was everything it is cracked-up to be. The people are friendly and the food is superb. The simple, rustic menu is healthy and delicious, with heavy emphasis on wild boar, pheasant, truffles, mushrooms, tomatoes and pasta. The wine of Tuscany is from the Sangiovese grape which is either made into Rosso or aged for 5 years to be Brunello. They are both excellent and very reasonably priced. They eat lots of cheese from sheep milk which is eaten with honey when aged. Some Basalmic vinegar is sold at prices above that of French perfume and is eaten with ice cream among other things! The little hill-top villages are perfectly picturesque and the landscape is vast and difficult to capture photographically.

Many of Greg's watercolors from this trip are painted on brilliant hand-made sheets of paper from the Moulin de Larroque in France. Most Oils are painted on a very toothy, specially-made, natural color linen from the same Paris supplier who sells the paper. Both of these supports are new for Greg and he feels they make a significant difference in the finished paintings.

Exhibitions:

Gallery Amyot
Paris, France

Clarke Galleries
Stowe, Vermont & Palm Beach, FL

North Sea Gallery
Charlevoix, Michigan

Lucky Street Gallery
Key West, FL

Art Resources
Birmingham, MI & Harbor Springs, MI

The Gallery at Kona Kai
Key Largo, FL