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Dawn rose oxide. Treebark steadfast. Flight erasing the space between us. Air marking, marks airing. Lightness lifts the grip of... -
Last week to see my work in London. ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ at No. 9 Cork Street includes a series of my paintings... -
Out of silence, a recent visitor teared, 'I see these paintings as a plea for tenderness.' Another whispered โItโs as... -
Here I felt the grass grow through my body, filling the surface with its energy. When the mark reflects back... -
I feel I must make myself as vulnerable as a fading blossom blown by wind in order to convey its... -
All of the paintings in ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ were painted outside durationally immersed over two years in embodied relationship within the... -
An exhibition wall contains this central space. A mentor once told me that a painting needs a room. This central... -
This and the subsequent three posts walk you through the complete gallery installation views of my ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ exhibition. For... -
Once again I am in love with small paintingsโas when I painted outside on small boards in the hills of... -
Proper artist portraits are fun! And in case you missed it, a 12-minute exhibition walkthrough video is on youtube (link... -
A master ink painter in China once demonstrated for me the three levels of an ink painting, his brush waving... -
My paintings sometimes echo as evidence of their environment as if somatic frottage. Here I rubbed my hand-processed oil stick... -
A thoughtful person commented that the tactility of these paintings must be hard to capture in images. Because this show... -
In ๐ต๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ I felt the earth push back. I attuned to the intensity of the storm transforming the mud... -
In Cloud Mud I wanted to give weight to the changes of light in the sky. Something about painting the... -
For many years I worked in walnut ink with a bamboo pen that had a flat-edged sponge on one end,... -
This is one of those night paintings with subtle shifts of atmospheric color that is impossible to convey in the... -
I am sharing a few extra works from this series because it is joyful and reminds me to keep dancing... -
Before night swallowed the grassland where I painted, a swarm of streak-throated swallows would fill the pink sky, carrying us... -
A friend once told me that sometimes you need to make a solid mark that in context transforms itself into... -
This is a good example of why I imagine the painted sides of these paintings like a slab of mineral... -
I started spraying my aluminum surfaces in 2022 after experimenting with many other ways of creating a rich, velvety, dense... -
My favorite time to paint is at nightfall. In the coolness of the night, I often see the burning of... -
Line has always been at the heart of my paintings. The infinite variety of line animates my workโhow it communicates... -
๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ breathes through its shifting sheen and densities of iron oxide and malachite. Layering lightly over one another, the...
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