A book of paintings and poetry
I just created this small book of paintings and poetry for my upcoming exhibit at Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle titled Reading Rilke:...
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- Mar 17, 2012
The Unity of Dread and Bliss II
Today I approached a big canvas. Significant is that over the past year I’ve found myself celebrating big accomplishments or decisions...
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- Feb 19, 2012
Representing the abstract with the abstract
The ideas I wrestle with–spirituality, the unknown, death, wonder, the possible, the unanswerable–are all abstract concepts not easily...
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- Feb 11, 2012
Red Painting
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...
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- Jan 27, 2012
Cloud Painting Details
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...
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- Jan 21, 2012
Between Two Worlds
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...
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- Jan 18, 2012
Springtimes Have Needed You
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...
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- Jan 16, 2012
Cumulus Blau Painting
Every January I paint a large scale painting. Something about the new year and spreading my wings and feeling the freeness that scale...
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- Jan 15, 2012
Healing Through Art Exhibit
I am so honored to be participating in the Healing through Art Exhibit at Peace Health St Josephs Medical Center beginning Feb 3 and...
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- Jan 13, 2012
Want the Change
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...
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- Jan 8, 2012
Port Townsend WA Art Exhibit
I’ve been ferrying around these last few weeks delivering paintings and attending openings. Last night my family and I took the Keystone...
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- Jan 2, 2012
My Hope for the New Year
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,...
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- Dec 26, 2011
A Year With Rilke, December 26th
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...
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- Dec 17, 2011
Trying on Something New
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...
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- Dec 16, 2011
Image-ing
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...
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- Dec 10, 2011
Very little paint, loads of depth
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...
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- Dec 4, 2011
A Whisper of Things to Come
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...
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- Nov 26, 2011
Listen
Yesterday I was talking about “silence” and today I’m contemplating voices. Maybe it is all about being still long enough to experience...
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- Nov 25, 2011
The Purity of Slience
From Concerning the Spiritual in Contemporary Art by Donald Kuspit The “spiritual” is a problem concept in contemporary art. When in...
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- Nov 19, 2011
The Spiritual in Art
Unfolding If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history, No gradual growth of consciousness Beneath the land grabs and forced...
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