View fullsize Bellingham friends: come to "Scholar/Teacher/Artist" opening at Western Gallery Thursday April 6 5-7pm! It's full of good work, and you can see some of my Swamp/Garden paintings in person too!
View fullsize Anamorphic Carolina. #carolinabays #waccamaw #artandecology #naturalpigments #handmadeink
View fullsize I have begun to write messages on the little ovals that are acts of devotion to the so-called Carolina Bays. Names of plants in these oval pine savannahs, lakes and peaty bogs. Early explorer and settler admiration and exploitation. Destruction ongoi
View fullsize 2022 was my year of rebuilding a life, piece by piece. This remodel-in-progress is shelter, home base, skin, belly, lungs. In a few weeks it will be ready for habitation! In 2023 bring your plants and seedlings to bless this rebirth!
View fullsize Then the teachers went to Venice 😍
View fullsize Tiny selection of the work we saw in Paris as part of WWU global learning class. Brilliant shows include “Les Choses” at the Louvre, Mickalene Thomas at the Orangerie, Din Q Le at the Musée du Quai Branly. The students returned ful
View fullsize Strange visions at Moissac cloister and church. I had a little field trip
View fullsize More terranes. I will bring these paper pieces home with me but will have to leave behind shuttered windows to a sunny courtyard. Lovely studios for both WWU students and faculty at VCCA-France. #vcca #vccafrance #wwuart #wwuartdepartment
View fullsize Flying over BC and Alberta was incredible. Now I’m in France teaching, starting out by using the woad grown and made locally here. Experiments.
View fullsize This is totally different from what I thought I would be making right now. I don’t know what to say. It just happened. ???
View fullsize A post to celebrate the spark of joy of a new yellow: this one from some sunflower petals.
View fullsize I cannot say enough good things about @vashonartistresidency! I left this beautiful seaside room yesterday with a sad heart but much gratitude for time there. I’ve been showing the profusion of new work that has come out of it. Here are some im
View fullsize …. "We find ourselves on the entrance of a vast plain which extends west sixty or seventy miles. This plain is mostly a forest of 'long-leaved pine,' the earth covered with grass, interspersed with an infinite variety of herbaceous plants
View fullsize A new body of work is forming, based on the Carolina Bays, fascinating ponds, swamps, long leaf pine savannahs and their unique ecosystems. These include several species of fire resistant survivors such as Dionaea muscipula. “The Flower and the
View fullsize What to do with all the swatches of foraged ink experiments?
View fullsize Anish Kapoor in a puddle of rust and plant-ink.
View fullsize Another beautiful studio day. Grateful to be here! #vashonartistresidency
View fullsize Dreadful news propelled a new batch of paintings of “Traps for Tiny Prey”. Flytraps have evolved a creative way to supplement photosynthesis in a nutrient-poor environment. They catch only non-pollinators.
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View fullsize I cannot believe my good luck to be at an artist residency at this moment on this rocky road of a year. This place is heavenly! #vashonartistresidency