Issaquah 2

1987.
Just like now, titles did not come easy. I`d get out an atlas and look for names that sounded interesting. Often the words were of a Native American language, such as this one. After I moved to the Northwest I realized Issaquah was a suburb of Seattle.

Hoh

The painting went south this week so I revised this one from 08. I changed the angle of the dead tree, which came to seem wrong in the last year. An advantage and drawback to having images of all my work on a hard drive is it allows for endless reconsideration and revision. I`ve killed more than one painting by 'fixing' it, but here I think it`s better.
This is the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula.

Fog in the Forest

The purpose of my upcoming residency at Sitka is to work on some really long pieces. I wanted to do something sort of large before I go. This is based on the smaller 'Fog on the Mountain 3'.

Reed Canyon Spring

I just spent the afternoon walking through Reed Canyon observing the budding vegetation. I`m thinking of the long 'narrative' work I want to paint of intimate views of the water`s edge. New life from the primal muck. This painting is from a couple of years ago. Same canyon but at that time I was looking up not down.