Greetings!
I’m a multidisciplinary artist deeply connected to the practice of walking and exploring landscapes. My work as an artist is an ongoing exploration into the connections between people, places, and the everyday, manifesting as processes of walking, mapping, and mark-making. My art and writing are inspired by the experiences and reflections that arise from the present moment.
Scroll down this page to explore more of what I do and offer.
Landscapes
Recent landscapes of inner and outer terrains, inspired by wilderness, Jungian concepts of shadow work, and the process of inner integration.
Experiments
Working with crumpled paper, damaging and manipulating of the paper, determining how I respond to it as a surface for markmaking.
Walking
Drawings rooted in the everyday practice of walking, combining smartphone GPS tracking apps with traditional drawing mediums.
Videos
Time-based media projects, videos of walks and documentation, and occasional poetry reading.
Blog
Dispatches from the studio, reflections on the work in progress, and travelogues from the path.
Guidance/Coaching
I help curious people find meaning and presence through creativity, story, and sacred conversation.
Recent Art and Writing
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August 2026 – Roof is done
Re-roofing our house the past six weeks has been a beast of a project. I do not recommend it! There were days where the thought of hauling myself up a ladder one more time made me nauseous. The Youtube algorithm will forever populate my page with roofing videos. But it’s pretty much done and it…
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Attack One Thing Today – Especially If You Don’t Want To Do It
I am not a licensed, bonded, trained professional handyman or contractor. I have never worked in roofing or construction or anything remotely related. But a couple of weeks ago I went to clean the gutters and found several dislodged shingles, I knew it was time. I’ve been sitting on replacing this old roof for a…
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New work, Inner Landscapes, May 2026
Two small Inner Summits, erupting. 8×8″ It’s all I’ve got made in the studio from the past month, which is the way it goes sometimes. Lest you think my little contemplative art projects are meant to reflect some kind of calm inner spaciousness. Actually as depths are explored and accessed, energies light and dark (especially dark)…
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A Ritual For Releasing Old Written Journals
What do you do with your old written journals? I have filled Moleskines and various paper journals dating back to 1998. Almost 30 years of writing. When I fill one up, I go get another one. And my daily writing practice has continued on to this day. I had been kicking around projects for a…
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Pilgrimage of Participation: A Walk Through Matthew Whitney’s Work
By Kristin Martin (Kristin wrote the following essay on my work for a published catalogue from Principia College, which accompanied my recent exhibit. She has graciously given me permission to republish it here: Art is not a thing—it is a way.¹ The Old English word ‘wealcan’ (which gave us the familiar verb ‘to walk’) did…
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New work: Shimmering, 26″ x 36″
I’ve been working on this one for awhile – a crumpled paper surface, worked in graphite and acrylic paint. I had it to a point it was ‘done’ but not done – something about it wasn’t working. Reworked it with more paint, laid down more graphite. Now I look at it and it -shimmers- …which…
A little 3-minute video musing on my recent paintings, Inner Summits: