Heading into summer, and it’s a busy time! As usual, I have fallen behind on my updates, so here’s a mashup of what’s happening:

French Pastel Salon
I have been invited once again to exhibit at the salon in St. Aulaye, France this summer. Conversation in Flight Study (above) and Tesla’s Fire Study will be making the trip abroad (without me again, boo). Before they go, I plan to use both of them as a studies for large oil paintings, to bring to…

Summer Festivals
The 2012 summer schedule is complete and posted here. Noteworthy additions this year include a botanic-themed show at the Chicago Botanic Gardens, and the acceptance of my oil paintings at BAM. I’m very excited about both, and the rest of my schedule too. I hope to see you out there in the warm months! In the meantime, you can still see my work at…

Earth and Sky at the Tinman – Closing Soon!
My solo show at the Tinman is nearly over. If you haven’t seen it, stop by if you are in the neighborhood this week. If you can’t make it, don’t worry. Sue will keep the unsold work on hand for a few months following the show, so if a piece has been calling you, it might not be too late. And you’ll never miss an event if you follow me on…

Facebook
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Lightning Strike Nouveau, left, is one of the many new pieces created for  my upcoming show, Earth and Sky, at the Tinman Gallery. Work from the show interprets elements of the sky (clouds, weather, celestial bodies and flight) using elements from the earth (leaves, petals and stems).

The show runs through the end of April. The Last-Friday opening promises to be the usual fun Tinman affair, with live music, hors d’oeuvres and lots of good company.

Also, I’ll be on hand for a demo at the gallery on Saturday, April 14th. I’ll post more specifics later. These things terrify me, so I’d love to have you come give moral support if you can make it!

Earth and Sky opens Friday, March 30 at the Tinman, from 5-9 p.m. Please come out and see us if you possibly can, we’d love to have you!

To preview the show, click here.

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Ascending (left) is featured in the current issue of American Art Collector Magazine. It appears on page 87 as part of an article on botanical work. Although the piece is surrounded on the page by botanic-themed pieces, it could not be more different from the rest. For some reason, this always surprises me.

The actual piece is currently available at Cole Gallery in Edmonds, WA. Many thanks to the lovely Denise for submitting my work to American Art Collector!

Well, this is embarrassing. I forgot to post for about three months, it would seem. But I had a pretty good reason: I was busy.

Last time I posted here, I was off to Edmonds for an event at my new gallery there. Let me tell you, they put on a fun Third Thursday! One of the best parts was getting to see my childhood friend Sarah, who drove all the way from Bellingham to see the show.

I followed Sarah back and stayed at her house. In the morning she did a very convincing impression of my parents—meaning, she wouldn’t let me leave without a carload of stuff. On my way out the door, I scored a box of pumpkin scone mix, and, more importantly, a giant garbage bag filled with the thirteen blue hydrangeas I had been eyeing in her back-stairs window.

I had already been thinking about hydrangeas for some time—the way their billowy, cloud-like petals resemble a hazy sky when softly backlit. As an experiment, I made some new pieces for my gallery in Cannon Beach, using  my thirteen new friends to create stormy beachscapes.

Happy with the new work, I painted more for my upcoming show, Earth and Sky, at the Tinman Gallery. The show will have a mostly-sky theme, including the hydrangeas and other new sky-themed pieces.

Earth and Sky opens Friday, March 30 at the Tinman, from 5-9 p.m. To see more work from the show, click here.