Sketching and musing over the Winter Solstice, December 2024. rain shadownavigating the fog of dreaming and shadow and just above, and within… turmoil and tumultcurves… Read More »Winter Solstice Doodling, and fragments
oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″ This painting has been a journey. Three months and at least a dozen different versions, tried out, painted over,… Read More »Twilight in the Grand Canyon, as an encounter more than a happening
We often crave answers before we take the first step, but what if the journey itself is the answer? Lately, I’ve been exploring what it… Read More »We Are Breathing Puzzles – why we need spiritual companions in our lives
Well that was a shit election. I didn’t need to watch the needle – last evening’s downcast faces told me all I needed to know.… Read More »On Apocalypses
This distinction – what is art and what is not art – used to haunt me. I’ve been fascinated my whole life with the notion… Read More »What is art / not art?
Dinking around in the studio on a bunch of half-finished things the past couple of months. This one is kinda done. A 12×12″ artboard I… Read More »Cityscape-01, 2018, 2024
Once in a while (and I mean, my intention is monthly but work out to 3-4 a year), I write a little reflection to send… Read More »Receive my occasional reflections in your inbox
Continuing on my journey of making paintings of my favorite places: finished this painting of Tahoma (Mt. Rainier), from a photo I took a few… Read More »Painting: Contemplating Tahoma
Finally finished a painting! “Finished” being, “I’ve done a few dozen edits to this canvas, painted and scraped, painted and scraped, and have come to… Read More »Painting: Gelkie Peak, Grand Canyon
I’m slowly unpacking and easing into the studio. Not ready for monumental hero art; just playing and re-acclimating. Here is one of five such ‘re-acclimating’… Read More »Suppression just makes the fire burn hotter