Gallery of Recent Work

Work in Progress

Although I've been doing some textile work, most recently I've been focused on painting in oils. In August 2007, I did a pleine aire landscape workshop in Diamond, Oregon (southeast, near Steen's Mountain). Then in late November, Jer and I headed off to Basin, Montana, where I spent December and January in a large storefront studio, painting the village and learning about its history and inhabitants. So this collection of "recent work" is a mixture of textiles, primarily landscapes and abstract works based on landscape and oil paintings from eastern Oregon and from Basin Montana.

I also have been painting abstract works which seem to arise spontaneously, out of my representational studies. The series "Portals" were all done in Montana, during that two month period. The Gallery of Work in Progress shows a number of the oil paintings I've done around southeast Portland in spring, 2008.