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  • the art of revision: lessons from abstract painting

    When I was in my mid to late 20s, I was a graduate student in the art department at Indiana University. There were a few problems with this situation, but the most important one was that I was primarily an abstract artist at one of the most figurative schools in…

  • Overcoming Obstacles: the artistic journey in the garden

    In late spring, I emptied a bag of wildflower seeds into a mound of dirt I’d dug at the southeast corner of my house in rural Maryland. I raked the seeds into the soil, and it rained and rained. Green shoots began to come up, which eventually became zinnias, cosmos,…

  • the creative process behind ‘mcKinleyville’

    Eastern Shore, Maryland McKinleyville is the first painting that I have completed since moving here there years ago. McKinleyville is the name of the street that I live on, but it also embodies this place, rural, somewhat isolated, saturated with light and color. The painting began very differently than it…

  • In a New Space

    I’m going to try and say something about being in a new place, and a new space. A whole new place, that is, as the old place was in the midwest. This new place is on the east coast, and it’s far less isolated than my old place. My old…