Art Art Life desert

Great News!

Great news…I got in! My work has been accepted into the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Statewide Annual Exhibition. This is a highly competitive competition and it’s a great honor for me to be among the artists on the creative edge. Utah Arts & Museums will host a public reception on Friday, November 15,…

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Unveiling!

Unveiling! Rockwell Ranch Juniper Oil on linen, 48×48″ [Sold] My art is not just a picture of the desert, my work is a representation of the desert. It is a reflection of an experience, a meld of past and present experiences. I seek to transcend what can be physically seen, and convey my emotional response…

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Memorial Day Thoughts

A day of billowing storm clouds, twisted junipers, wind and the ceaseless movement of the dunes… I see continuity and equivalency between my own life experience and the cycle of life and death playing out around me. I spent my childhood in the desert camping and hiking with my late father, where he had spent…

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Yucca Mountain

“We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.” – Wallace Stegner…

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Making my Surface

The process; before the paint goes down: I’d like to share a little insight into how I prepare my painting surface. I like to start from scratch, some of the finest Belgian linen, aluminum composite board, and a stinky soup called rabbit skin glue…add blood, sweat, and tears.  

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