The Rutkowski Loop posits that the same painting is not. I owe it all to Walter Rutkowski. He was my professor at LSU who said something like this to me…
My paintings typically emerge slowly, they haunt me for a day or three or twenty-three until they suddenly freeze in their tracks, say boo! and -- eventually -- disappear.
November 2014 I've been painting almost every day for the past few weeks and things are starting to stack up. Here's a view of the table top where the most…
My paintings and drawings are the result of a wrestling match between me and the canvas. During this process I rework, erase, and even turn everything upside down to correct…
Watercolor painting of a sweetgum leaf and its shadow. It's funny, isn't it?, that we're surrounded by a zillion of these and they are all different and all beautiful. That’s…
What better way to tell you about Richard Diebenkorn than telling you a story through a painting? Diebenkorn's "Ocean Park" series was completed during the 60s, 70s and 80s by…
This is a mystery of portraiture: the subject sits and the artist interprets. Does the artist allow his or her own thoughts and biases and filters to affect the image?…
During a recent walk in the woods with friends we saw our first fall colors of the season. My usual art plan for vacations, for this was a mini-vacation to…
I'm thrilled and honored to be one of the artists selected this spring to design a traffic box skin for the City of Boise. This is my first public art…
You're invited to the opening reception of Ghost Hunting. Twenty-seven new works will be on display. The show is located at Evermore Prints, 780 W. Main Street in Boise. The…
An admission of guilt: all the frames on my website are FAKE! Yeah, I have to say that although these frames would be awesome, they're all photoshopped. Hopefully, this was…
This piece is for a new show in August 2017 at Evermore Prints in Boise. The name Celestine, or Célestine, is Edgar Degas' mother's name, which seemed somehow appropriate.
Last weekend we were in Northern Idaho at Twin Lake, near Coeur d'Alene. It was great to relax and paint with a box of 99-cent watercolors and a ball-point pen…
In the shadows lie the mysteries. Did you notice what's lurking in the shadows today? Carol Robinson just posted a sneak peek of the new work in my show "Houseghosts." The show…
My show at the Carol Robinson Gallery opens on May 7th. I delivered 11 new pieces to the gallery this week for the Houseghosts exhibition. I completed this painting in…