These two small moons are at the Symphony in the Flint Hills Art Auction to benefit the preservation of the plains. There is so much amazing art to choose from with many interpreations of the prairie, and for a very good cause. Auction bidding is now open until June 2025. My offering is a full […]
Category: Fresh off the easel
Trudy Furney Tribute Award
Thank you ROAR Art Show for awarding A Field of Wild Sunflowers the Trudy Furney Tribute Award. Sunflowers grow wild on the Kansas plains and are one of the last flowers to bloom in late summer. Their vibrant color ushers the land into the early half of autumn. They are the state flower of Kansas […]
Wise Woman’s Moon
The Wise Woman’s Moon (36×36) symbolizes the path from birth to our wise years. Like a woman’s life, the moon is a culmination of a thousand little details made from the indention of milo, wheat, and corn. Inside, hand-laid rust symbolizes the fleetingness of time. The deepening blue at the edge emotes encroaching twilight as […]
Switchgrass Gallery
If your travels take you to beautiful Post Rock Country, please stop by the Switchgrass Gallery in Lucas. You will find some amazing regional art to inspire you. Here are a few of my new offerings, including a collection of baby moons inspired by spring. […]
To Benefit the Symphony in the Flint Hills
Stones in a Flint Hills Creek was selected for the 2024 Symphony in the Flint Hills Art Auction to bring awareness to conservation of the tallgrass prairie. It has rust, prairie plant ash, country river silt, wheat kernels and very thick texture with layers of paints and inks. The online auction opens April 27 at […]
To Benefit New Territory Magazine
This piece is to benefit the mission of New Territory Magazine (bid now until October 21, 2023), a sublime publication that lifts up the lower Midwest. It started with love. In 2016, The New Territory launched as a longform print magazine for Lower Midwesterners who are hungry to understand the Great Plains and Ozarks. Their […]
It is nearly wild flower season
Wildflowers are a true prairie gift and symbolize individuality. I think of them as good souls born of the land. My favorite photograph ever taken by made dad was of my mother in a field of wild yarrow. Wildflowers are fleeting beauty in face of the warming land. My rendition has stone texture, paint, shimmering […]
Moon of the Water Bearer
Finished on the new moon in Aquarius (1.21.23) the fortuitous timing coincided with a gentle prairie snow, so I set the painting outside to receive the winter moisture, infused with nourishment and beginnings. It has stone texture, embedded grain, rust, and local limestone. My moon paintings are always a seasonal expression of what’s happening on […]
Flowers, Born of Land and Time
I love the ancient feel of these flowers, born of land and time. They contain the silt of the Smoky Hill river which tells the story of this place as it slowly meanders across plains collecting detritus. The piece is eroded with limestone and has stone texture, rust, sagewort ash, red earth pigment, and paint. […]
The Sun and the Moon
The sun and the moon remind us that nothing is stagnant, all is in motion. Painted with winter snow, rust, and the ash of hand-gathered prairie plants that carry the energy of a hundred suns and moons. Their energy reminds us of the wonder of a world in motion. […]
