Model on a Victorian Sofa

A piece of furniture that can definitely hold it's own against a figure.

Nate Sleeping

I'm in Washington, D.C. now, teaching, visiting family, and revisiting the past--including this painting of my son from a far away quiet afternoon.

NRECA Commission

My approach for this mural is "WPA Meets Post-Impressionism"--a stylized landscape combined with vivid color shapes. Click here to see more images from this project.

When I'm in Paris this spring, I'm going to see Raoul Dufy's mural about the history of electricity, and try to figure out how he managed to design a similar narrative in his wonderful decorative style--that's over 120 feet long!

NRECA Commission

For the next ten days I'll be an artist resident at the Vermont Studio Center, where I'm working on finishing a commission for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. My painting is a forty foot long landscape with a winding road (with power lines!) spanning coast to coast. I've enjoyed the chance to work like a WPA artist, finding a stylized, decorative language to state the organization's goals and history.

Clouds and Marshmallows

Changing leaves, changing weather, and hay bales waiting for winter.

Memory: Baltimore

I rented a studio near this part of Fells Point harbor for a time, and though it seemed odd to some that I would commute 45 minutes north on a freeway from my nice suburban neighborhood in Washington to spend the day painting in a seedy section of Baltimore, it made perfect sense to me to work in walking distance of these hoists and tanks. I'll have to go back there again with my french easel this spring and see if there's any industrial landscape I love left
in my old neighborhood.