I just finished the artwork for the 2012 RiverFeast event for Deschutes River Conservancy August 4 at Ranch at the Canyons on the Crooked River. This soft pastel painting shows the rock formation known as Monkey Face from the opposite side from Smith Rock State Park. I chose the vertical format to get the long [...]

Last Friday I went up to Shriners Hospitals for Children in Portland to sign the new large giclee on canvas in their 3rd floor meditation room, placed by Art Etc. It was a quiet room with a large picture window looking over Portland. On a clear day Mt. Hood would be visible. I’m honored to [...]

The last painting I made for my April show at Tumalo Art Co. in Bend, OR, is of yellow-headed blackbirds in a crabapple tree. The challenge was to make the background of pine trees work with the intense light and colors in the foreground…ie I didn’t want the background to usurp the foreground. As with [...]

I will be showing my new paintings of Central Oregon landscapes, salmon and trout fishing art and a few bird paintings in April with fabulous sculptor and printmaker Danae Bennett Miller. The show opens April 6, during the First Friday Gallery Walk at Tumalo Art Co. in Bend, Oregon and runs all month. I will [...]

For our February show at Tumalo Art Co. in Bend, Oregon all of the artists in the collective painted things they are passionate about. As an exercise, because I hadn’t painted much since finishing my latest very large painting, “Into the Mystic” for the show at Black Butte Ranch, I wanted to do something different, [...]