Since I use landscape as a jumping off place to reach into the unknown, I started thinking about how one (me) can start off thinking about going in one direction and wind up in another. I’ve just completed five paintings that were derived from a photograph that I took down by the Corte Madera Creek-a [...]

Somehow I’d convinced myself that I’d gotten separated from myself, from my painting from the mere fact that I’d been living and that certain aspects of living had taken my attention away from a contemplative life. Can you separate your daily practical life, that such as buying food, paying bills, cleaning the kitchen floor, tidying [...]

Sometimes you can be dead for a long time but not know it. Despite working in an academic environment and despite consistently working in the studio, I’d say I’ve been brain-dead about art for about 20 years. There have been a few exceptions, such as when I got into a reading jag of art history [...]

In the early part of May, I participated in two weekends of Open Studios. The following week I spent preparing for a large party that I gave in celebration of my daughter’s graduation from college. During this time I was reading “The $7 million stuffed shark: the curious economics of contemporary art.” My computer died [...]