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 […]

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Visit the Courtyard Gallery

I’m excited to partner with the beautiful Courtyard Gallery in Lindsborg, Kansas. This is a delightful town just off the main road that offers small time hospitality served up with a Swedish flare. The gallery promotes Kansas artists and our interpretation of the plains. I hope you will visit them at 125 N. Main Street. […]

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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 […]

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Cottonwoods are Whisper Trees

My favorite tree is the Cottonwood. There are some who say she is a whisper tree. A sort of sage that grasps secrets from the ether and gifts wisdom on the wind to those who would listen, telegraphing fortunes on fluttering leaves. The waxy click clack on the summer warmth sounds like the ocean to […]

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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. […]

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Buffalo Commons Festival, McCook, NE

Sometimes, there are just really special events that tell the story of the West and bring people together in unique ways, the Buffalo Commons Festival is one of those. Hope you will join us for this group show as we explore art as a storytelling medium. […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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