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PLOG (Painter's Log)
"Non, la peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer les appartements." -
Picasso.
After a sundae of workshops this summer: study with Michael Howard
and our whole painting class, figure and portrait with Barbara Fugate all
summer, a photographic trip to Georgia, Color and Light with Suzanne
Brooker, a commission and sale of two paintings brought all these ideas
into my studio.
ABOUT Expansion 36"x36" and Contraction 36" x 36"
These twin paintings explore the idea of objects or space itself
contracting and expanding within space. Painting these was quite a
wonderful experience involving invention using objects like paint chips,
carpet scraps, granite fragments and rubbings from a metal grate, as well
as notes and conversation with my patron while exploring the building.
These works are acrylic on canvas.
Interpreting environments is engaging. I like to do decorative paintings,
Picasso. If you want to commission a decorative painting, please contact me.
September 2005
Harstine Island paintings at Local Color at Pike Place Market through October 2005.
Why Paint?
It's a question that reasserts itself frequently, and the answer is
periodically new. Lately, I am exploring ideas more than I try to
represent scenes. There is an incredible sense of freedom for me to paint
while considering tangential ideas associated with the images developing
on the canvas. There are always surprises, even when a number of studies
precede the big work. At the same time, in parallel efforts, I am
thoroughly confronted by my inexpert ability to see and mix colors in
figure painting. The figure painting always brings me back to the
discipline of realism. I am confident that improvement can come with some
systematic experimentation and practice with the pigments. Which brings me
back to the freedom of working in ideas and their perfectly fine limited
palettes. But really, I'm not giving up on the figure at all. June 2005
Wine and Vine on Exhibit!
Four new paintings exploring shape, balance, color and free association.
Third Thursday Art Walk in Edmonds May 19
Arista Wine Cellars
new location! 320 5th Avenue
Harstine Island on Exhibit!
May 2005
Second Saturday Art Walk in Ballard at the Forum Center 1718 56th Street hosted by
Andrew L.
Parker.
Out the Window on Exhibit!
April 2005
Local Color Seattle
PIKE PLACE MARKET
Studio Show: Out the Window
The more I paint the more I am confronted by the workings of my own mind:
its preconceptions, its fabrications and its capacities to appreciate and
create.
What is fascinating about painting out the window is how interested I
become in otherwise predictable transformations: the sun or fog of every
day, the dawn to dusk of each hour, and the breeze or bluster of the
minute. Everything is changeable and not predictable at all. The 2004
summer season was a good model.
Picking up a paintbrush and starting to paint is extremely satisfying.
Before starting a painting, I do a number of studies in ink. I can tell
that the years I took pictures without film are part of my apparently
haphazard composition. December 2004
Robert Irwin opened my eyes to phenomenological
perception, and I was lucky enough to see him and hear him speak
recently at the Seattle Art Museum. October 2004
Why Paint?
Lately, it's about looking and noticing. Throughout the life of
a painting, it's about something coming together to become itself. A
painting is as much about what I want it to be as what it turns out to be.
The more I paint, the more I catch myself in the act of erroneous ways of
seeing. I only recently started drawing in ink which forces two things:
intentional good markmaking and creative recovery. June 2004
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