My September Issue: A Sky Painting Project
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...
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Aug 27, 2013
Serendipity and the creative process.
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...
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Jul 15, 2013
Twombly and Rilke
Thinking about Twombly and how he also loved Rilke and incorporated nuggets of poetry and writings in his paintings. Spanning a large...
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Jun 29, 2013
Meredith Monk Interview and a Kayak Paddle around Lake Whatcom
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...
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Jun 23, 2013
Evolving as an artist
Artists face the “wall of necessity” in the way they become identified with a style of work. And even though commercial success may...
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Jun 18, 2013
Inspired by Mary Oliver’s West Wind #2
“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...
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May 27, 2013
Inspiration in Color
Mod Gray Home Office Tone-on-Tone Gray Bedroom Traditional Green Entry Fresh, Modern Living Space Fresh, Modern Dining Room Exciting...
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Apr 28, 2013
The Four Seasons, Twombly and Rothko
I’ve always wanted to paint a Four Seasons Series–large scale and immersive–like Cy Twombly’s Quattro Stagioni that I was fortunate...
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Apr 13, 2013
Surviving the Parting and Nature in the Balance Exhibit
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...
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Apr 6, 2013
Change
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist when sketching loves nothing so much as...
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Feb 3, 2013
The Shape of What You Lived
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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Jan 22, 2013
Making Books
http://www.mypublisher.com/index?e=OHm3Q8zJl3SnvK9yg-DELSmT4JrVn3lD&showForm=true You may view and purchase this book at the link above. ...
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Jan 20, 2013
Studio Makeover
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...
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Jan 18, 2013
Art in Context
I’m really enjoying seeing so much of my work hanging in such a fabulous setting. #artandhomeforsale #artexhibitinmodelhome...
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Jan 12, 2013
Lake Whatcom, Downtown, Bellingham Bay and Paintings
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...
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Jan 6, 2013
Another layer of Mist
Yesterday, a friend came into my studio bearing a tearout of this “inspired” writing by John D’Onofrio–a most talented photographer. It...
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Dec 31, 2012
More Joan Mitchell
I like this review of the Joan Mitchell Biography Lady Painter–especially the italicized section below– more than I liked the actual...
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Dec 26, 2012
Rilke’s Poem Entering
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...
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Dec 15, 2012
Dirge without Music
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...
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Dec 2, 2012
River Thames-ish
Artists employ many tactics to break through to the subconscious and get themselves in a place where they are responding to the process...
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