WATERCOLOR

Once a month, you'll find me teaching watercolor workshops at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, NM. I take students on field trips to my favorite painting locations in the area. Many of these paintings were created during those excursions. Each return offers new light, new weather, and another opportunity to observe a landscape that never feels the same twice..  

I have a particular affinity for this wonderfully resilient cactus! To me, the Prickly Pear is the guardian of the desert and I paint them with joy and reverence. By lowering the horizon and looking upward, these paintings shift the cactus from a small desert detail into a monumental presence.

My interior paitnings are often mixed-media, exploring the dialogue between observation and invention. Everyday objects, remembered places, and organic forms become opportunities for experimentation. Open books on Matisse, O'Keeffe, the Surrealists, and the Transcendentalists are scattered across the studio floor, their ideas finding their way into the work.

What begins outside gives way to memory, intuition, and play. Funky Landscapes move beyond direct observation, inviting color and curiosity to take ! Here you'll find erupting volcanoes, radiant clouds, and wildly colorful foregrounds.