The last time I was in Arizona, I visited the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun in Tucson. The art was mostly religious but it was worth visiting to see the adobe buildings built by Ted DeGrazia and the Yaqui and Tohono O'odham tribes. Read more...

Now that the weather is sunnier, I've been walking up and down the steep hills of my neighborhood for exercise and taking photos along the way. I like to get close up to things and have been known to trespass into people's yards! I'm always on the lookout for intricate patterns that you can find in nature. Read more...

I recently got back from a trip to Maui where I visited a couple of botanical gardens. There was such a variety of lush vegetation that it was almost overwhelming. On top of that, there were all these cute geckos and lizards running around. I'm thinking my next series of art will include a lot of flowers and plant life with the occasional insect or lizard hanging out. Read more...

Spring is arriving and I'm looking forward to sunnier weather and more color outside. I've been reading about the artist David Hockney and how he painted spring around his house in 2020. He painted the same nature scenes over and over but with slight differences (dawn, dusk, rain, sun). I think I would get bored documenting the same subject matter repeatedly but I do see the value in really looking at your surroundings and not taking it for granted. Read more...

It's been quiet around here. I've been reading about a simpler life and Agnes Martin. She took solitude to the extreme by moving to the middle of nowhere in New Mexico. I do see value in her methods. It can be hard to do your own work when you're constantly surrounded by other people and their ideas. Read more...

I realize it's been a while since I last wrote. I had a bad bout of COVID last month and I'm still feeling the effects. The good news is that I got a lot of reading done and I started working with some new art materials! I'm done working with paper (for now) and I've switched over to using birch plywood in my art. Read more...

I recently got back from a trip to Tucson where I've fallen in love with the Sonoran Desert with its gorgeous sunsets, cacti everywhere, and desert critters. Read more...

I feel like I'm hibernating. I haven't been out much and I've been hunkered down in my studio making a lot of artwork. I'm also changing up my art process. I used to work with multiple layers of colored paper sort of like a screen printing process. But now I'm cutting individual pieces of paper and placing them by hand. It's more labor intensive that way but it saves a lot of paper. It's actually not hard to do if I'm just making one of each design. Read more...

I recently got back from a trip to Arizona where I checked out Phoenix (good tacos), Sedona (amazing rocks) and Tucson (cacti everywhere). Of the three, I liked Tucson the best. They say Tucson is the "Austin of Arizona" and I can see why. Read more...

Matt and I headed up to Vancouver BC recently and had a fun time walking around Stanley Park and eating our fill of izakaya and ramen. We also spent a week in Oregon checking out Portland and the Mount Hood area. I recommend checking out Hood River. It's a super cute town with lots of restaurants and artsy shops. Read more...