Irondale Beach

Irondale Beach is a beautiful little spot where Chimacum Creek runs into the bay. It is being remediated by various groups owing to contamination from a very old steel plant ...

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Madrones

So I fought and fought and fought with a trio of paintings this past week. Today I set them aside and began a new painting which painted itself. My muse, she's ...

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Mount Townsend

Several weeks ago I had about 4000 things to accomplish, so instead I went to the mountains. I hiked Mount Townsend, at least until my fear of heights kicked in ...

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Untitled

New work! This is a 60"x48" oil on canvas. The image is from a storm cloud in Northern Colorado last June; not an epic storm, just a pretty one. I have ...

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The Need for Solitude

"Solitude" mixed media, 16x20 on illustration board I've been spending a lot of time walking this summer, particularly through the woods all around Port Townsend. The rhythm of walking, the quietude, ...

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Birth of a Tree (drawing…)

So here is a drawing process for you. I have been experimenting in the studio with drawing effects and have come up with a mixed-media approach that is making me ...

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Drawings

New work, done as part of my graduate studies. I have been thinking about trees a lot, easy to do when you live up here. When I ...

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“Vessel”

My new painting is titled "Vessel." I began this piece during my oil painting class, and my students commented on how the under-painting looked like a ship. This was complete ...

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Manifest Destiny

One of the series that came about through my graduate work at Goddard College. This entire series is tiled "Manifest Destiny." It is a combination of the academic research I ...

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The Harbor

New painting! In fact it is still quite damp... This is from an image I saw several weeks ago. In real life the bay was not nearly as interesting, it ...

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Horizons Art Show

Here are a few pictures from the art show at The Art Mine. It's a nice, big space and a little hard to convey just how it feels. I have ...

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