Turner’s Sunsetting over a Lake As the season’s change, I’ve noticed that my palette changes.   As the Fall comes to an end and I’m...

Today’s wind (and an amusement like ride on the Whatcom Chief to Lummi Island as the first car on the ferry) reminded me of the day I...

For the months of November and December I will be exhibiting with Laurie Potter and Rob Vetter in a group show titled Earth, Sea & Sky. ...

I do believe my studio received as many accolades as my work these past weekends during studio tour.  And I would have to agree.  It is...

I recently took a full-time position in Marketing, which means that my studio time has been greatly diminished.  However, this past...

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the water undammed, the trees towering and the walls built low. and in the...

Jake Berthot, a NY artist influenced by the natural world and Emerson, has said that without the source, one cannot have form.  “. . . if...

Last week I posted my painterly response to this statement by poet Jorge Luis Borges,  Years of solitude had taught him that, in one’s...

Friday was my last artwalk at 301 W Holly St, M5.  For over three years and 40 consecutive First Fridays (missed just one) I have been...

Years of solitude had taught him that, in one’s memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day, not even in jail or in...

Nature inspires and heals.  It gives us a reason to take a deep breath and look outside our banal existence for meaning.  It serves to...

In preparing for our move, I had a yard sale this past weekend.  I sold a lot of books–because they had become burdensome and heavy to me...

Yesterday I took the ferry to Friday Harbor with my children and a good friend–who also collects my work. We went for the ride, and...

I created this painting last Fall.  It has been at a Seattle gallery for the past few months and I’ll be bringing it and another 6...

I’ve been teaching a bit of art to elementary age students this summer (well, I’ve been doing that for many years now) and didn’t have...

Here is a new painting I will be showing at artwalk this Friday at Kat Schneider Gallery. These words are my new philosophy. If we only...

For the past few months I have been ingesting ideas and imagining creating a new series of paintings.  I don’t want to let go of my...

It would most certainly help if I had something other than my iphone camera to photograph the paintings for these blog postings (hint,...

Although I’ve spent four sessions working on this painting, it is far from complete. For instance, the foreground is completely...

We may yearn to come to rest in some small piece of pure humanity a strip of orchard between river and rock But our heart is too vast to...