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. […]
Category: Fresh off the easel
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. […]
Bones of a Winter Plant
Bones of wild sunflowers define the winter prairie and inspired this study at the time of Saint Bridget’s day, the traditional start of spring in the old world. In the depth of winter, we sense the land is turning a corner. On the Prairie, winter is necessary to scarify the seeds of wild plants, so […]
One with the Serpentine Depths
This painting points to the the mystery of deep water and serpentine eddies, symbols of creative life force, created with paint, stone texture, grain and rust. Serpents are one of the oldest and widespread mythological symbols, often representing rebirth and the shedding of old ways. […]
Moon of the Ice Lake
A winter moon born on the shore of Fossil Lake during one of the coldest months on record. I wanted to challenge the painting to see how it would adapt by setting it outside in -1 degree F with snow and ice. To me, in perfectly symbolizes the tenacity and strength of the prairie land […]
