I consider one of the great benefits of being an artist to be the ability to choose my own subject.  And if I so desire, incorporate life experiences, synchronicity, and downright awe of nature’s beauty into my work.  Everyday I feel it a responsibility of my practice to notice what I notice and then make a choice to connect these sensations to some larger issue that’s been on my mind or in my conversations or to a piece of poetry, and create from nothing a newness surroundin

I wonder if my tenacity shows in this painting. Three times I painted this sky study and wiped it off. Either the paint felt slippery on the board (I’m used to the canvas absorbing the paint and medium), or the opacity/transparency of the paints was off, or I just messed the whole thing up. Fourth time was a charm. #cloudscape #skystudies #smallworks

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Sky Study, oil on cradled board, 8×10 SOLD I’ve been working on a number of larger canvas pieces getting ready for a show at Allied Arts in July. They range in size from 24×24 inches to 48×64 inches. The scale is an important factor for this body of work. But understandably, in this economy, small works have come into vogue as a means for artists to survive and sell works. Translating my atmospheric meanderings to small has been a topic I’ve explored and discussed more th

In honor of Earth Day, I finger painted a sky. A heathly fluffy white clouded breathable sky. On such a fabulous spring day I could not bring myself to continue working on a painting that had gotten too dark (you can see it around the edges). So without much ado and not really knowing where it was going to take me, I flipped the canvas 180 degrees, found a fabulous blue oil stick and went to work. The white clouds were added with my fingers–loosely and quickly. Not a sing

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#readingrilke #abstractlandscape #glazing #cloudscape #scumbling #paintingandpoetry

From Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet Things are not nearly so comprehensible and sayable as we are generally made to believe. Most experiences are unsayable, they come to fullness in a realm that words do not inhabit. And most unsayable of all are works of art, which-alongside our transient lives- mysteriously endure. #abstractlandscape #cloudscape #paintingandpoetry #readingrilke