Month: January 2017

Some paintings are just extra special. This piece felt like opening a door to a new place. A place charged with something exciting and ominous, like when there is a storm coming and you can feel the energy in the air right before the thunder roars.

Eye of the Storm // This little lady and her fawns are catching stars. Mixed Media, handmade & painted papers and vintage constellation maps

Ursa Major III // Inspired by the Ursa Major constellation. Mixed Media using hand painted papers and vintage constellation maps

Beautiful Historic Main Street in Park City, I love driving out here to drop work off at the Gallery.

Making new happy messes in the studio and creating some new work for the Park City Gallery for February.

I have been painting up a storm in my studio and am ready to take some new work out to Silver Queen Gallery in Park City. Its always hard to say goodbye.

It’s funny how the subjects and energy in my pieces can change but always still feel like part of the same family. The colors, animals and energy is very affected by the things I’m experiencing at the time. The books I read and music I listen to can impact my work immensely. For example, I just finished the (Pulitzer Prize -winning) novel Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. It’s the only novel I’ve read in the Western genre but I really connected to it, it’s beautiful and terrible. Being just under 900 pages, it took me a few months to get through, but wow it haunted me for ages afterwards. Images of buffalo, and the shadows of the people that came before me, the harshness, grit, simplicity, and resilience of the human spirit… all that energy has found it’s way into my work. It makes me feel more connected to the ghosts of those people who forged out West that lead to my existence today. Park City with its old mining roots seem like just the place for these to be.

Between the beautiful mountains and ski resorts, the world renowned Sundance Film Festival, and historic Main Street with its array of Art Galleries, Park City is easily one of my favorite cities on the planet. I was lucky enough to grow up snowboarding in those mountains and was able to enjoy all that the city has to offer as I live an hour away. I have always dreamed of having my artwork in one of the distinguished galleries. I am so excited to say that I will now be showing my artwork at the Silver Queen Gallery! The gallery in on historic Main street and run by lovely people. I can’t wait to get started.