Oswego Creek Spring

From a walk last weekend. That little 1/3 mile stream has so much variety and beauty, I`m always surprised I hardly see anyone back there.


oil on canvas 30"x24"


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Late March

That`s the best I can do for a title right now. This is a daily painting of an unknown flowering tree on the bank of Oswego Creek. I`m starting a larger version with the water included.

oil on panel 6"x6"


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Wet Winter Forest 2 / Cascade Head

It`s time to leave the winter woods. All of the recent forest paintings were inspired by a walk on Minto Brown Island a month ago.
We took my friend from New York to Cascade Head to hike the Nature Conservancy trail. It is simply spectacular. The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology is very close by and the deadline for artists in residency applications is April 20.


oil on canvas 24"x20"


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Winter Apples

From 1995.
One of my first restaurant jobs was dish washing at the original Cafe Beaujolais in Mendocino California. After I finished late at night, I would drive back to the farm where I was living and walk through the garden to get to my cabin. By the path was a Golden Delicious apple tree. Lots of fruit would still be hanging well into the winter. They tasted the best then and glowed in the moonlight.


oil on canvas 42"x46"



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Plein Air Watercolor Landscape

I have an old friend visiting and haven`t been painting.
This is an on site watercolor painted at the Joy Creek Nursery in 1999.
watercolor on paper 14.25"x10.50"


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Night on the Lake

A Daily painting.
Nathan Fowkes chose a painting of mine to be included in the online science fiction magazine 'Tor'. An issue devoted to images of spring. There are some knock out artworks, take a look. The dusky forest painted by Thomas Millie Dow, a 19th century Scottish painter, just humbles me. Also included is John Twachtman`s "Arques-la-Bataille", maybe my favorite painting in existence. When I stumbled upon it in the Met on my first visit to New York I was speechless. Thank you Nathan for the honor!


watermedia on paper 5"x5"

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Into a Different Forest

This small painting was tough. I painted, scraped, repainted all last weekend and finally set it aside in disgust. The bottom image was the beginning, and the middle image was what I did when I returned to it mid week. I mostly covered it with random color. Then I started to move that around and this final forest came through.


oil on canvas board 14"x11"



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