"Goats on the Rock", July 2026. 100% wool. I have the honor of being featured artist for the month of July at Orcas Island Artworks. I wanted to make a special piece just for the occasion. In May (a little too close to the deadline if you ask me) I had the realization that the time had come to create a piece I'd been incubating in my head for years. Here's the story behind it and a little bit of how it got made. Like goats, I love a good rock. I'm not a rock climber -- but th

Jokingly titled "The Empty Nester Series", I finished a handful of little portraits before I got the yearning for toddler times out of my system. Actually, yearning isn't quite the correct term -- I fully remember how not-easy those times were. That said, how could I not indulge myself in at least a little nostalgia.

Having just gotten back from the "Orcas Retrospectives" opening at the Orcas Center, I feel inspired to share a little more about my...

I looked upon these connections both literally and figuratively. The more my kids (and I, for that matter) made connections about the world

The trial and errors of pushing your art a little beyond your area of expertise!

Caution: this post is rambly and circuitous and has lots of pretty photos of art I made and also mentions authoritarianism. Let's begin.

Note: This story involving my daughter is told with her permission. On the first of December, 2023, my youngest kid, Lu, stopped...

Sometimes I think that I would be perfectly happy painting just one scene from the farm over and over. Any single landscape is a...

The last few weeks, driving through town in the evenings, I noticed that the shops had lights on long past closing time. I knew that this...

"...No longer required to make with our hands in order to assure our survival or to make a living, more and more of us now do so by...

I've been incubating this idea for a while: blending stories from the farm with the process of creating wool paintings. Without any...