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 …
Portland Open Studios 2021 starts this weekend!
Portland-area people. Come by for a visit during Portland Open Studios! 10am-5pm October 9, 10, 16 & 17. All the info, including a list of all participating artists and maps …
Happy Mother’s Day! Last Day of Spring Sale
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day! Several of the paintings sold over the past week were a mother’s gift to herself or a gift selected for the honored mother in someone’s life, to …
New Year’s Art Projects
I’m back to work after visiting with family for two weeks over the holidays. Happy New Year! In the studio on this sunny but frigidly cold first week of January, I …
Eclipse Love
Here is “Eclipse Love.” You may recognize this silhouetted couple from my earlier painting, “We Made It.” I loved the composition of shapes created by the way they are standing, …
Deep Roots and Milky Way
Here is “Deep Roots and Milky Way,” the newest addition to my Tree of Life series. This is a commissioned piece, and my client requested that I create a new …
Eclipse Birds
This is “Eclipse Birds.” Small silhouetted birds perch in the branches of a tree during a total solar eclipse. This is one of my favorite paintings in the studio right …
Re-Working “Red Trunks” During Portland Open Studios
This was my first year as a participating artist in Portland Open Studios. It was a much bigger event than what I’d pictured when I applied to be part of …
October Art Studio
The studio is still an ongoing project, with many details yet to be finished, but I’ve gotten it to the point where I’ve moved in and it is a functional …