I suppose walking paths has always been my thing. Drawing, as it were – making lines on surfaces. But the line is never the thing. It is the making of the line. I guess movement is my thing—it’s the not-knowing where the line will go. We have some control over the movement of the line, but the surface is determined – it has a ground, and an edge (like a piece of paper, or a landscape). I think ultimately, I’ve never liked that edge.
graphite and charcoal and acrylic paint on 18×24″ paper, and a little sketch of writing inspired by moonlight that illuminates just enough: Once upon a… Read More »new piece: moon radiance, inner summits
Painting completed July 2025, oil, 14” x 18” I’ve been thinking about what they are supposed to ‘do’. What is their affect? Why am I… Read More »Inner Summits
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
Something I wrote one evening while backpacking in the Sierras last summer: A field of sheer granite with rivulets, falling into the King’s Canyon itself… Read More »New Painting: Darwin Basin, Sierras
Finished this little oil painting over the holiday. Inspired by backpacking in Lake Chelan, the joy and adventure of actual nightswimming, REM’s Nightswimming, and the… Read More »Nightswimming
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
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