Thanks

Thanks for ever changing landscapes and dramatic skies. Thanks for warm, intelligent conversations with family and friends. Thanks also for silliness and laughter. Thanks for love, support and kindness. A happy Thanksgiving to all.

Back From New York

I am back from a wonderful, visually stimulating week in New York. Highlights? The Starns twins "Big Bambu" atop the Metropolitan Museum, their South Ferry subway station, Monet waterlilies at the Met and MOMA, Miro at the Met, and a great show at the Guggenheim of art done during Faschist and Nazi regimes. The city is friendlier, cleaner and safer than I remember, vibrant and exciting as ever. I would go back in a heartbeat.

Final Week

This is the final week of my show of paintings and fused glass in Seattle at the Fountainhead Gallery. It looks as though the weather will be promising, so a trip to the Queen Anne district of Seattle may be just the ticket! Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday 11-6, Saturday and Sunday 12-5. The gallery is located at 625 W McGraw Street. For further information check out the website at fountainheadgallery.com or call 206-285-4467.

Sneak Preview

The work for the Seattle show is up and live on the Fountainhead website.If you want to have a sneak peek, the website is fountainheadgallery.com. I am excited to share the new work and discuss my explorations in painting and my new passion, fused glass. I hope you will join me Saturday, September 11th from 5-7 at the gallery. The gallery address is 625 West McGraw. For further details, check their website.

Seattle Bound

The works are completed for the show in Seattle. The title of the show is "Conversations with Trees," reflecting my ongoing woodland passion. There will be acrylic paintings on canvas, and work in fused glass. The show will be at the Fountainhead Gallery , 625 McGraw, in the Queen Anne area. The Gallery is open Thursday through Sunday. An opening reception will be held Sept. 11th from 5-7 pm. For more information and images of the work, check the website at Fountainheadgallery.com. Here is a taste of the work you will see.

A Colorful Wonderful Show

I would like to put in a plug for my friend R. Keaney Rathbun's show, "Sacred Moments." The work is joyous, playful and thoughtful. Filled with pattern and color, Keaney's work captures the celebratory moments of every day. Working in stained glass, needlepoint, sculpture, and silkscreen printmaking, Keaney has assembled a personal Book of Hours, and installed it all to resemble a chapel, complete with altar table. This work is the culmination of nine years and draws on personal experiences which become universal. It is truly a wonderful life celebration. I invite you all to visit the show at the Waterstone Gallery in Portland, Or. at 424 NW 12th Ave. Gallery hours are Wed.-Sat.12-6 and Sun. 12-4. The show closes on August 1. My apologies to Keaney for these photos. They just can't hold a candle to the real thing.Images are: "Daydream Believer, Campfire Stories, and Protective Coloration."

Hood River Outing

If you are in Hood River in the next few weeks, I am participating in the Kiteboarding for Cancer annual fundraiser. My work will be at Providence Hospital, Full Sail Brewing Company, and the Columbia Arts Center. There will be a big opening event July 2, from 5-8 pm, but the work is already in place. For more details, check out the KB4C.org website with a link to their blog. On the blog you will find images of the other participating artists. The works in this post will be for sale at the Hood River locations mentioned earlier.

What Would You Call It?

There is such a diversity of art movements in existence these days. Is it important to be attached to one? There was a time when there were fewer artists and many fewer movements. Impressionism, cubism, abstract expressionism. Today, there are more than I can count or probably know exist. So where do I fit and does it matter? I think I've always been somewhere between the cracks. I'll leave it to others to coin a phrase for the pictures I make.

New Paintings

Here are 2 new 9x12 inch paintings that I'm considering for inclusion in the September Fountainhead Gallery show in Seattle. The vertical painting is one of my favorite little hideaways in the village on Neskowin on the Oregon Coast. The horizontal piece is a forest scene focused on the bare branches creeping through the forest, just before spring.

Thank You

Thanks so much to all of you who took the time to come to "Four on Forty-first" on May 15th and 16th. I enjoyed meeting new and interesting people and seeing old friends. Thanks also to those people who purchased work for their collections. I am gratified and honored to be in your homes.