A Man in His Garden

slogging through winter with still life's

Villa in Twisp
11x14 plein air study. The Methow river wends its way through the foot hills of the Cascades. A landscape of deer, salmon and exceptional steel head fishing if like my friend, Kevin Bevins, you know how to get 'em. It's an area that has been discovered by the 'rich and famous' but gets pretty mellow i

thoughts on plein air and abstract art
I write as much as I paint, perhaps more. I think I should share some of those insights as this is a journal of artistic progress.Every painting is an experiment. The current goal is to reflect not only the visual model but the internal thou

thoughts on art; abstract plein air
I regard this as a fine abstract landscape. It is from this point that the painting gets developed in an attempt to accomplish something that is a representation of nature. One that gives comfort to those that need to know wh

thoughts on plein air and abstract art
I regard this painting as a 'Spiritual' effort.Done in the Temple of the Studio, reflecting thoughts and artistic aspirations, reflecting my knowledge of horses, plein air landscape studies with deliberate attempt to include abstract composit