Skysplitter Oil on board, 7"x5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. Same sky the cavemen saw, with one exception.

Babes in the Woods Oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD We grabbed the dog and took an afternoon walk the other day a few miles into the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area here in Oregon. We admired all the different types of trees in the forest: White and Red Fir, Tamarack, Spruce, Alder, Cottonwood and Ponderosa Pine, to name a few. It was a great walk but now my calves are sore--obviously I need to do a lot more of this. If only I could learn to paint the dailies while still moving I'd be in shape, right?

Mountain Valley Oil on board, 7"x5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

Cherry Tomato Oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

From the studio wall:


In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

~ Alice Abrams


You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

~ Wayne Gretzky


The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

~ Louis I Kahn

Western Afternoon Oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD My fascination with clouds continues. Here's another pretty dramatic sky.

Coyote Country Oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

Restless Sky Oil on board, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD I had almost forgotten how spectacular late summer storms can be here. Its like watching a dynamic stage set for a Wagnerian opera. Rain showers march majestically across the valley in slow moving translucent sheets. The sun stages sudden comebacks, beaming out of black clouds to light up a swath of grass or sky then winking out as quickly as it appeared. High drama above the farmer's fields.

August Thunder Oil on board, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD It was a glorious, blustery day yesterday in the Grande Ronde Valley of northeastern Oregon, where I'm spending a few weeks. After a long period of heat, dark clouds rolled across the valley and the skies opened up, tamping down the dust of summer.

From the studio wall:


No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn’t work anyway.

~John Robb


A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

~Maya Angelou


A friend joked that she only buys paintings to match her couch. So I told her if I painted a red apple, all she’d have to do was buy a red throw pillow and just like that the painting matches her couch. Only I wasn’t joking.

~Christopher Stott, from his blog

Memory 17

Acrylic on paper, 6"x6"
not for sale

A change of pace for today, back to the "Memory" series. This is my wife's mother Reta, interpreted from a Polaroid photo taken maybe 35 years ago.

Reta is the sweetest lady and much on our minds these days. She's 86 and recently had to leave her home due to declining health. Brenda visits her every day in the care facility.

Leaning Treetrunk Oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

Tangerine Quartet Oil on board, 7"x5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

Apple Pile Oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

From the studio wall:


I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

~Dolly Parton


The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

~Salvador Dali


The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

~ Francis Bacon


A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.

~ Paul Gardner

Rugged Range oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US.

Mono Lake Sundown Oil on board, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. There is something about the vastness and remoteness of this land that I have always found compelling. The sun carves its timeless path from rise to fall across this great silence. I am drawn to solitude. I never think of it as loneliness. I am filled by these spaces.

Posts and Willow oil on board, 7"x5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD

No Name Butte oil on board, 6"x6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. This thin little ridge near the California/Nevada border probably does have a name, likely recorded on some BLM topo map. But I think of it as nameless because I love it for it's absolute ordinariness. There are countless others nearly identical across the vastness of the West. I don't believe in hierarchies of beauty. I have a conviction that any patch of ground on this earth is as resonant and potentially meaningful as the next, if I am willing to be attentive to it. I believe this nondescript swell of sage and juniper is as deserving of my attention as, say, the Grand Canyon.

Cottonwood Valley oil on board, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD I'm spending a few weeks in Oregon. Since I got here I've been doing paintings inspired by the drive up from southern California. The trip is long but I love the landscape. I dallied awhile in the beautiful cottonwood-studded valley north of Bishop, where the spectacular Sierra range looms above the meadowgrass pastures. It reminds me a lot of another of my favorite places, the Wallowa Valley here in Oregon.

Flower Goblet Oil on board, 7"x5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD Brenda put these Carnations in a goblet--I thought it looked pretty unique and had to paint it.

From the studio wall:


Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

~Jack Handey



Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

~Henry Ford



Ring the bell that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen, “Stranger Music.”

A Windy Morning oil on board, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD I love the way the limbs of this tree radiate like the spokes of an umbrella.

Oak Shadows watercolor on paper, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD