what i do
Welcome to my place! If you are looking for art with any kind of consistency, it’s not here. I don’t brand anything, especially myself. Ouch!
If you want art all over the place, you're getting warmer and there’s probably something here you might like. Mostly a painter, Acrylic is a good fit for me because I do a lot of “paint on and paint off” as I go. If I still painted in oils, I would end up with a muddy mess. The other part of me loves stones, rusty nails, beads, copper, driftwood and old bones: whatever the piece needs. I do get sidetracked with these treasures I pick up off the ground.
Art is how I greet the world. My purpose is to find joy in what I do and help others to step into their own creative selves. Often, we gather together in my studio to build up and exercise our "art muscles.” Sometimes, I do my own image making along the way.
I can't sell my art anymore than I can sell myself. Let me know what you want and I’ll see if we can work that out together.
If you are “looking for a sign” I can do that. My Dad was a sign writer/painter for Paramount Studios for 40 years and he taught me "to watch and learn." Along with signs he painted movie sets, clouds, sad clowns and horses’ rear ends. While he was in the garage building cars and playing the trumpet, Mom was in the house baking bread and trying to teach six of us how to be in the world.
I guess I am an artist. When I was a kid, I sculpted a horse out of bubble gum. That horse carried me on a full ride art scholarship to Mt. St. Mary’s University. After grad school at Idaho State University, and a lot of other fun stuff, today I'm illustrating a book, creating a website and painting fruit bins for the Food Bank. Building a fairy house for an installation here in Bozeman has been the most fun!
I honor it all and it's all ART!
I’m here if you need a quiet reminder that life is okay or a colorful image that can bring you back into yourself. Might be an image you find here or one you have in your head. Call me and we can chat over tea or coffee or cry in our beer.
I would like that.
If you want art all over the place, you're getting warmer and there’s probably something here you might like. Mostly a painter, Acrylic is a good fit for me because I do a lot of “paint on and paint off” as I go. If I still painted in oils, I would end up with a muddy mess. The other part of me loves stones, rusty nails, beads, copper, driftwood and old bones: whatever the piece needs. I do get sidetracked with these treasures I pick up off the ground.
Art is how I greet the world. My purpose is to find joy in what I do and help others to step into their own creative selves. Often, we gather together in my studio to build up and exercise our "art muscles.” Sometimes, I do my own image making along the way.
I can't sell my art anymore than I can sell myself. Let me know what you want and I’ll see if we can work that out together.
If you are “looking for a sign” I can do that. My Dad was a sign writer/painter for Paramount Studios for 40 years and he taught me "to watch and learn." Along with signs he painted movie sets, clouds, sad clowns and horses’ rear ends. While he was in the garage building cars and playing the trumpet, Mom was in the house baking bread and trying to teach six of us how to be in the world.
I guess I am an artist. When I was a kid, I sculpted a horse out of bubble gum. That horse carried me on a full ride art scholarship to Mt. St. Mary’s University. After grad school at Idaho State University, and a lot of other fun stuff, today I'm illustrating a book, creating a website and painting fruit bins for the Food Bank. Building a fairy house for an installation here in Bozeman has been the most fun!
I honor it all and it's all ART!
I’m here if you need a quiet reminder that life is okay or a colorful image that can bring you back into yourself. Might be an image you find here or one you have in your head. Call me and we can chat over tea or coffee or cry in our beer.
I would like that.
series just paint mixed up media gatherings archive