Interlude

18x24 inches

oil on canvas

The view upwards through the trees still has the power to draw me into the moment.  For a brief instant, I feel again the childhood sense of being present. No future, no past, just now-- what a blessing of innocent youth.

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Fugue - SOLD

48x24 inches

oil on canvas

From the dictionary: 1a : a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts b : something that resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements

I had thought about "choral group" as a title, because I felt these trees were making music together, and I stumbled upon this definition of a "fugue" and it just fit.

This is also in the "Trees" show at the Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River, OR.

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Day of Grace - SOLD

30x40 inches

oil on canvas

Anyone who knows me knows that along about October I start griping about the weather.  It shouldn't come as a surprise to a native Oregonian that summer here is just a blink between the wet seasons, but every year I get indignant that the warm weather is over already.  And yet I LOVE the fall colors.  Hence the title of this painting: a day of grace, or, unmerited favor.  A day with the benefit of blue skies and a warm sun shining down on those lovely autumn hues.

This is hanging in the "Trees" show at the Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River, OR.

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Line Dancing

40x16 inches

oil on canvas

Here's another painting that is in the "Trees" show.  I didn't really know where I was going with this one until I was painting it-- it progressed to this point and said "stop."  So I did. It's a personal favorite.


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Autumn Sighs

36x12 inches

oil on canvas

This was painted for the "Trees" show at the Columbia Art Gallery, in Hood River, OR, showing this month.  I truly enjoyed painting for this show.  Trees are so human.

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A Cut Above - SOLD

12x9 inches

oil on panel

I find the Coyote Syncline incredibly challenging to paint.  It's amazing to look at in person, but it's difficult to translate to canvas its immensity.  Especially plein air, since I paint pretty small outdoors.  I feel this one is successful-- I was going for that early morning freshness.  I hope you like it, too.

This is hanging at the Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River, OR, as part of the 2011 NW Plein Air Show, during the month of September.

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Growth!

Wow.  I have discovered Carlson.  Amazing that such a boring, difficult book could be so enthralling four years later.  Who knew?  Thanks to my first plein-air workshop instructor for insisting that all his students purchase this staple of landscape painting.  He'll never see this, but thank you, John Budicin.