I paint primarily coastal landscapes - the marshes, creeks, inlets and quite anchorages along the New England coast. There is something about a coastal landscape that I find very captivating, especially one that combines a pleasant upland scene with small boats and a view of the sea.

Boats and the sea have always been a large part of my life. In my younger days I spent summers on Cape Cod sailing my first boat, a 12' wooden cat, out of Scorton Creek in East Sandwich. Many pleasant summer days were spent sailing along the dunes of Sandy Neck and through the marshes and creeks of Barnstable Harbor.

Following those wonderful summers on the Cape I took time out from boating activities to attend Tufts University then graduate school at Yale, majoring in engineering.

The busy years that followed didn't allow much time for boats but I did manage to squeeze in a 16' Town Class sloop; a 26' ketch rigged Chesapeake Bay Sharpie; a 15' Marshal Sandpiper; a 30' Tartan; an 18' wooden Novi hand made out of pine, oak, spruce and iron clinch nails in Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia by a 94 year old builder, $850 brand new and painted, best boat I ever owned; a 15' Whaler which the kids monopolized most of the time for water skiing plus assorted small outboards, inflatables, sea kayaks, canoes and dinghies. Now I am enjoying a 15' Stur-Dee skiff made in Tiverton, Rhode Island which my wife and I find perfect for clamming and fishing in the bay.

I have had some experience with larger boats too, having spent time aboard the John Cabot, a Canadian ice breaker, and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Albatross. Plus I have been lucky enough to have taken a few dives in the Alvin submersible while employed as an Ocean Engineer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

I began painting late in life mainly because the photographs I was taking never seemed to capture mood or atmosphere, which to me is the whole thing. I have never had formal training in painting, being essentially self taught, but I like to think I bring a strong feeling for the outdoors and the sea to my work.

Painters of the past whom I admire include Vermeer, the impressionists Monet and Pissarro, and the post-impressionist Seurat mainly because of his innovations in the use of color. I think my painting style has evolved over the years into a modern form of impressionism blending the clear, careful look of Vermeer with a touch of the freshness of the impressionists and the luminescent and vibrant colors of Seurat.

While I spend most of my time painting coastal maritimes, I am still drawn on occassion to paint upland scenes; the forests, mountains, ponds, and rivers of the New England interior. I also paint still lifes, especially in the winter when our wonderful New England weather shuts down any thought of venturing outdoors with a brush.

Presently I live at the edge of a salt marsh in Duxbury, Massachusetts with my wife Pam and our Labrador Retriever Otis.

I exhibit at various art shows and galleries throughout the Northeast and have been fortunate enough to have received several awards.

If you would like advance notice of new paintings as they become available please send me an email.

If you would like to see a painting or a print, you are welcome to visit my studio in Duxbury. Please call or email first for an appointment since I am not always here.

Thank you for stopping by.

Bernard J. Korites
Duxbury, Massachusetts

(781)934-0903
bkorites@comcast.net.