Thursday, June 25, 2009

Joshua Tree







In 1997 I painted in Joshua Tree. Tim Terrell was the ranger in charge of the program. He made a lot possible for a lot of people.

New Mexico





New Mexico






New Mexico has become my home. Even after the intense beauty of Aspen mountains. There is a drama of clouds each day and never boring. Shadows fleeting across mountains pick this one out then, that.

Aspen





Aspen





I teach at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

These are paintings since 1999 when I first began there.

I have paintings now for ten years.

Sedgewick Ranch





Hank Pitcher and I had hoped to make a national school of painting. Young painters would come here each summer. We still have that dream. Funding is very scarce now.

We keep it going with the local students who take the course.

We have had fun with a biologist and geologist that point out colors of what "this is" and rock formations and here a big fault line making it informative for us as we paint.

Santa Barbara

This is the Lagoon I painted all through the 80's in black and white.




When I was in NY it seemed far away like a dream remembered, I would say.

I started painting it in color again I guess in the middle 90's.