I’ve been thinking about the correlation of painting and poetry and just what it is that can make them flip sides of the same coin. I’d say it has to do with memory and time. Painting can be, and poetry is often, a record of memory. And so what happens to a person, an artist [...]

I recently had a conversation about the power of painting and how it can “move” the viewer. The particular artist we were discussing was Rembrandt. Later on I was thinking about what “being moved” meant, and whether that term “being moved,” is ever used when looking at some contemporary art that is fabricated by someone [...]

Today when I was painting I suddenly got very hungry. It was close to dinner time but I didn’t feel like I was quite ready to stop painting so I continued. But, I was aware of and thinking about eating dinner and then wondered if how this particular thought would be incorporated into the painting [...]

What am I doing? What makes a great painting? How do I make my painting both timeless and relevant? Who cares about landscape painting? It’s been done and is being done a million times. The landscape that we have known is disappearing. What do we want to remember? What is memory? Is memory ever true? [...]

One of the similarities of making good art and living a good life is finding the balance between chaos and control.

I’m going to be part of a “small works” show at Art Works Downtown, November 18-January 7. Reception December 10, 5-8 PM. I’ll also be having an Open Studio/Sale at my studio, Saturday, December 4th and Sunday, December 5th, 1000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA, 11 AM-5 PM. Call for directions at 415 [...]

Last year I was juried into a book put out by Alcove Press in Berkeley, CA, called American Art Collector. It has arrived today. It’s a beautiful collection of painting, sculpture and some crafts, juried by Howard Eige, Professor at California College of the Arts. My painting “False Lead,” can be found on page 336. [...]

My studio is located in an old school building, the Isabel Cook Building on 1000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., in San Anselmo, CA. During the summer Linda Kane Parker interviewed fellow artists in the building, Kathleen Lipinski and Wendy Goldberg and they were posted on the online Fairfax-San Anselmo “Patch,” news. Yesterday, the interview that [...]

The last few weeks it has become darker in the early morn, and darker earlier in the evening. This week in Marin County, CA, it’s become cooler, the light has changed and green leaves are turning cadmium yellow, indian red and burnt umber. People are having trouble sleeping. Last night I had trouble sleeping, and [...]

It is always good for the soul of someone who uses Nature as a jumping off point for their personal meanderings to make sure that they get out and back to the source itself-back to nature, the place where it all began.