I just created this small book of paintings and poetry for my upcoming exhibit at Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle titled Reading Rilke:...

Today I approached a big canvas.  Significant is that over the past year I’ve found myself  celebrating big accomplishments or decisions...

The ideas I wrestle with–spirituality, the unknown, death, wonder, the possible, the unanswerable–are all abstract concepts not easily...

Red.  The color of February.  The color of anger, love, energy, danger.  I infrequently paint with red, but as I did here, with the burnt...

There are just so many yummy sections in this painting that can’t possibly be enjoyed in a 600×600 pixel image.  Here are my favorite...

For four months I’ve been working full time in a non-art related job.  A job so left brained and full of details, that I’m worried my...

Here is another painting and poem which will be a part of the Spring Reflections Exhibit at Peace Health St Joseph’s Healing Through Art...

Every January I paint a large scale painting.  Something about the new year and spreading my wings and feeling the freeness that scale...

I am so honored to be participating in the Healing through Art Exhibit at Peace Health St Josephs Medical Center beginning Feb 3 and...

A few weeks back my children and I took a field trip to Port Townsend to deliver some paintings to a new gallery there.  Prior to leaving...

I’ve been ferrying around these last few weeks delivering paintings and attending openings.  Last night my family and I took the Keystone...

Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunlit one. The way to it, barely begun, lies ahead. So we are grasped by what we have not grasped,...

A Year with Rilke, Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and edited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows is a dog...

I rarely experiment with surfaces.  I’ve found a canvas I love and stretch most of my pieces myself using purchased stretcher bars (I’m...

I took a car and ferry trip with four teenagers today.  We checked out the site of a future exhibit of my paintings, collected fantastic...

I love when the minimalism of form and the minimal amount of paint collide to create a great sense of depth.  Another work I created this...

As some of you who read this blog know, I took a non-art job about two months ago after having painted, taught and run a gallery for the...

Yesterday I was talking about “silence” and today I’m contemplating voices.  Maybe it is all about being still long enough to experience...

From Concerning the Spiritual in Contemporary Art by Donald Kuspit The “spiritual” is a problem concept in contemporary art.  When in...

Unfolding If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history, No gradual growth of consciousness Beneath the land grabs and forced...