Concept Statement
This is what I told a gallery I’m doing, and I guess I’m going to stick with it. Never worked this way before. Always just a general...
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Nov 26, 2012
Feelin’ a Transition coming on…
Change is in the air. I’ve been experimenting in the background for a few months now, and had a breakthrough in the studio over the...
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Oct 20, 2012
Art’s Alive La Conner Exhibit
La Conner’s Premier Northwest Art Event November 2, 3 & 4, 2012 Friday, November 2: Invitational & Open Show Preview 12-4pm Opening Art...
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Sep 23, 2012
An Artist Talk
I will be giving my first official artist talk tomorrow night at the Whatcom Artist Guild Meeting. Source and method being the subject...
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Sep 13, 2012
Caressed by Ever-Moving Air
A musing on this painting’s significance. It is inspired by my actual view from the home to where we’ve landed and holds in it the...
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Sep 3, 2012
Tempests of storm-filled delighted feeling
Every Angel is terror. And yet, ah, knowing you, I invoke you, almost deadly birds of the soul. Where are the days of Tobias, when one of...
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Sep 1, 2012
Evening Love Song
This painting is my second experiment with this image of two clouds (the first being Ornamental Clouds, 48 x 48 in). The more time I...
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Aug 18, 2012
A Perfect Storm
There are moments when conditions are so perfect in the studio–the exact temperature and mix of medium to paint to mineral spirits, the...
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Aug 12, 2012
Organs of Sentiment
When I first made the connection between sky and the vast unsayable of Rilke’s words, I studied the works and writings of English painter...
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Aug 4, 2012
Depth into Depth
You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each ascent. So many are alive who...
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Aug 2, 2012
Loose and free
The weather was fantastic today and so my typical 3-4 hour studio session after work ran about an hour. I wanted to go kayaking with my...
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Jul 22, 2012
Stimmung I
I often refer to my works as atmospheres. Not a cloudscape or abstract landscape, but more a sensualness of a landscape–the feeling,...
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Jul 18, 2012
Stimmung
Here is a course I’d love to take…just wish I could read and speak German… so that I could figure out how to express, in words, what I...
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Jul 16, 2012
Paintings at home
The silver lining in the grey cloud of this recession has been that as I continue to produce work regardless of the art market buying...
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Jul 7, 2012
Painting Water
Since reading From Turnings and Returnings: The Art of Jake Berthot by Gregory Orr over a year ago, I’ve kept the ideas expressed below...
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Jun 17, 2012
Song of Myself
Paintings have been going out and coming back into my studio from multiple exhibits. It’s been a fun exercise to marry then up in...
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Jun 10, 2012
A Surprise in the Post
How rare it is these days to have an out of the blue surprise arrive in the physical mailbox. My studio mail address is not known by...
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May 28, 2012
Rubbed Down Into a Fine Veil of Color
My paintings are not about surface, they are about depth. They are not about defining, they are about leaving open a space for...
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May 11, 2012
A Sense of Scale
Source: annawolf.com via Sharon on Pinterest At right, my painting, Cumulus Umber (50 x 70 in, oil on canvas, 2012) photographed with a...
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Apr 14, 2012
Painting Large Clouds
I’m committed to painting large. This painting is 48 x 48 and the subject and my style are quite wonderful at this scale. Not only do I...
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