Color Combinations

I’ve recently done a bit of traveling to where I didn’t bring all of my art gear. I selected just a few tubes of paint, my tools and a pad of canvas paper. This was time meant only to play and explore, not to create any form of a finished product. What an AWESOME...

Spring Unveiling in Cannon Beach

May 6-8 th is the Spring Unveiling Arts Festival. The theme for this years’ group show is “Wild Spirit, Conservation for life…Raising funds through the arts”. This year also marks DragonFire Gallery’s 15 th year in business and because of that milestone anniversary...

New Work at DragonFire Gallery

Above are two of five new paintings that I’ve recently dropped off at DragonFire Gallery in preparation for the Spring Unveiling Arts Festival. This is the sixteenth year of Cannon Beach Gallery Group’s city wide event, happening May 6-8 th. I’ll be in the gallery,...
Playing With The Knife

Playing With The Knife

While demonstrating in a gallery this past Feb, I was surprised how many people (including gallery employees) were surprised that I consider myself a palette knife painter. My methods with the knife aren’t always traditional, so it’s not ‘obvious’ that I mainly use a...
UGALLERY + New Work

UGALLERY + New Work

I did this a bit backwards! Recently I shared an ‘artist spotlight’ that UGallery had put together about my work, but then I realized… OOPS… that’s the first that I had mentioned them. About a month back I applied to be a UGallery artist. For those who aren’t...

New Umbrellas

Since returning home from Arizona, my focus has been on cleaning up my studio, in part – completing a few of the paintings I have in process. Have four pieces to go, but here are photos of two new umbrella paintings one with a fun new palette of...