A book exploring the intersection of the philosophy of things, romantic poetry and art by Mary Jacobus and the story by Carson McCullers...

Inspired by our Chuckanut Mountains. all 30x30" oil on canvas.

I haven't much cared about things in my work. What's always been more important is the atmosphere. Land, water, trees act as a frame of...

For those of you local to Bellingham WA, my studio has a great front window and wall that I regularly rotate with new paintings. I've...

(click on video to expand to full screen) interior views and a corresponding poem As once the winged energy of delight by Rainer Maria...

I’ve been painting stormy seascapes. This is the third one in the series. They feature the colors cerulean blue French (a happy blue sky...

In 2018, after losing 3 members of my family in a short 14 months, I started painting a series of works titled 'softness touching the...

For a few years I took my atmospheres to a largely non-objective form inspired by Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko. If...

I can't remember a painting in the past 10 years that hasn't had a poem or writing attached to it, either in the making or the titling. ...

Marina Popova's Brain Pickings has introduced me to many writers and poets and their works. I frequently dig deeper into the books she...

“… if a painter has source and belief in that source, then form will come. I want to be clear here in that form in itself will never give...

Today I read this passage from nature writer Ellen Meloy in her book The Anthropology of Turquoise.  These words reminded me so much of a...

This abstract painting is ripe with with pentimenti–meaning the underlayers and marks that show through subsequent layers.  This effect...

“Psychologists believe that our capacity for creative work hinges on our memory and the ability to draw on our mental catalog of...

I continue to mull over what I want my next group of paintings to carry within them.  I continue to be influenced by this statement from...

There are three writings which have been relevant to my art practice over the past few weeks.  Collectively, they relate to intention, I...

I’ve been a bit obsessed with the color pink–which is not a good thing when it comes to the likelihood of a painting having universal...

Just thinking about these words from Rilke and this painting today. Consider whether great changes have not happened deep inside your...