A List of Winter Classics
I find solace in recognizing what enriches my life. What a better time than the end of a year, to reflect and be thankful. A few of my favorite things include: driving in the morning or early afternoon [...]
An Artful Thanksgiving
“We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.” -Helen Hayes With the furious [...]
Autumn Art SHOW!
Autumn months bring much anticipation of the soon-to-be comforting wood stove and the often fretful winter driving. Geese are flying, deer are running, and animals gather acorns and nuts…people begin to think about the holidays (I’ve been thinking Thanksgiving and [...]
Farm to Home
Essentially, autumn is the quiet completion of spring and summer. Spring was all eagerness and beginnings, summer was growth and flowering. Autumn is the achievement summarized, the harvested grain, the ripened apple, the grape in the wine press. Autumn [...]
The Final Paragraphs…
I have been inundated with hours spent typing on my computer each evening after work, as I devote myself to my last semester of Graduate School. Blog entries have been lacking but I have been writing…I have been writing… [...]
Revisitation of Lessons: Emanation
When “the end” of something comes into view, we sense a change of direction and we dance our steps in accordance to all that has been and to all that will be. I have, before me, a road of [...]
Of the Magnificent
The following series manifest in a two day celebration of arm dancing mark making. The background yellow strokes are constant throughout my canvas works but my instinctual palette is that of bright, bold, and vibrant hues. Rarely do I utilize a [...]
Holding Flames
The Wheelbarrow June 12th Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but [...]
Barn Raising with Sienna Fontaine
Barn Raising with Sienna Fontaine (photographs to come) Gather younger brother and his patiently willing friend (make sure they are unaware of just how much work the installation may require). Pick the only 2-hour window of no rain on a [...]
Home as Lover
We construct homes, find homes, change places into homes, dream of homes, work for homes, tear down homes, and are forever-in-the-search-for-home. What does home mean? I paint homes, I write about homes, I cry about home, and I wonder about [...]
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