Canyons, 2004

    This was reaching back to a watercolor style I painted with in my teen. This is wet-on-wet oil and playing with the colors and blending the lines and colors into forms was a blast. I held in mind a desert paintingI could remember but no longer have. The original was a giant butterfly…

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Bowl & Kerchief, 1981

    I had finished intermediate painting classes, and set up a small room in the house I rented as a studio, with a painting bench, a small table and light for still life setups and minimal oil paints. This stayed with me, this single painting, from those initial on-my-own workings. I was taught paintings…

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