Inspired by the re-emergence of mist and clouds, I’m hoping for this painting project to speak to finding a space everyday to wander our...

There are so many things I want to write about in this blog post; so many associations that presented themselves during the month it took...

Thinking about Twombly and how he also loved Rilke and incorporated nuggets of poetry and writings in his paintings. Spanning a large...

Synchronicity I have begun a new ritual.  A weekend kayak around the perimeter of the first basin of Lake Whatcom.  An hour long tour of...

Artists face the “wall of necessity” in the way they become identified with a style of work.  And even though commercial success may...

“West Wind #2” – Mary Oliver You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without...

Mod Gray Home Office Tone-on-Tone Gray Bedroom Traditional Green Entry Fresh, Modern Living Space Fresh, Modern Dining Room Exciting...

I’ve always wanted to paint a Four Seasons Series–large scale and immersive–like Cy Twombly’s Quattro Stagioni that I was fortunate...

Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened, like winter, which even now is passing. For beneath the winter is a winter so...

Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist when sketching loves nothing so much as...

And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones...

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My brain has been consumed with DIY and the Home & Garden Show (I am the event director) and motivated by the fact that 30 of my...

I’m really enjoying seeing so much of my work hanging in such a fabulous setting. #artandhomeforsale #artexhibitinmodelhome...

This week has been an eventful art week. The talented designer Blair Hunt used a few of my paintings for window dressing at a local shoe...

Yesterday, a friend came into my studio bearing a tearout of this “inspired” writing by John D’Onofrio–a most talented photographer.  It...

I like this review of the Joan Mitchell Biography Lady Painter–especially the italicized section below– more than I liked the actual...

Making a World, 36 x 48 in, oil on canvas Lately I’ve found the experience of creating a study–a small scale work–prior to the large...

Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it...

Artists employ many tactics to break through to the subconscious and get themselves in a place where they are responding to the process...