The Love Oak | Art to Symbolize Family Love
Here is “The Love Oak.” This painting is a commissioned work for a couple celebrating an anniversary. They wanted me to illustrate a metaphor they used with their children to …
Tree of Life With Phoenixes & Wherever Light Is
These 2 paintings are quite different from each other, but I’m sharing them together because I painted them at the same time as commissioned pieces–one made for a mother and …
Creative Vision
Here is the first self portrait I’ve created in 11 years: “Creative Vision.” It is about being an artist and an agent of purposeful change and action–the process of conceiving …
Last Weekend’s Art Opening
Here are some pictures from my art reception in Portland last weekend! Here I am (on the far right) giving my artist talk. I shared my artist statements for the …
Reception This Friday: Cedar Lee Show “Keep the Wonder”
Over the weekend, I installed my solo show “Keep the Wonder” at West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Southwest Portland. Here’s me (2nd from right) with the gallery team after we’d …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Into the Winter Sun
I used to take walks in these woods bordering a little park near my home in Baltimore, rain or shine. This painting was inspired by one of those walks. I …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Fireflies
“Fireflies” from 2005. This is a painting of a soft purple night. A warm, insect-buzzing, summer night out in the country. The original sold long ago, this poor-quality photograph is …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Mountain Storm
Here is “Mountain Storm” from 2005. This may be one of the most intense paintings I’ve done. Boom! Thunder crashes; a lightning flash fills the dark sky. The thick clouds …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Dawn Unfolding
Here is “Dawn Unfolding,” painted in 2005. This painting is one of the ones that sold from my very first gallery show in 2006. While I was working on forest …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Towering Trunk
This painting from 2005 is called “Towering Trunk.” It’s an exciting painting to me because it shows that at this point, I was fully into the genesis of my “Looking …