When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them." (Nikki)

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language." (Paul Gauguin)

exhibitions

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Honorable Mentions

Thursday, June 16th, 2022


 

  Asian Elephant, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Honorable Mention in Contemporary Art Room Online Gallery 'Animals' exhibition   Healthy Squirrel, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Honorable Mention in Contemporary Art Room Online Gallery 'Animals' exhibition  

Honorable Mention certificate, Contemporary Art Room Online Gallery 'Animals' exhibitionAsian Elephant (2020) and Healthy Squirrel (2022) 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, each are $750, framed. Both ‘Honorable Mention’ in Contemporary Art Room Online Gallery ‘Animals’ exhibition, May through June, 2022.

Exhibition

Sunday, May 15th, 2022


 

Trask River OR, 27H x 33W inches soft pastels on paper

  Blue Flag Iris, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper   Branches 'n' Blossoms, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

These 3 pieces (Trask River OR, Blue Flag Iris, Branches ‘n’ Blossoms) are showing in The Lakeland Art Guild 50th Annual Melvin Gallery Art Exhibition, May13th through June 4th.

Trask River (autumn leaves floating) will also be showing at Las Laguna’s “Golden – 50 or Older” online group exhibition showing June 2nd-30th.

Fins, Feathers, and Fur

Friday, April 29th, 2022


 

Prairie Dogs, Drumheller, AB - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Prairie Dogs, the Badlands, Drumheller, AB – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

  New Feathers, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches.   Fruit Bats, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches.   Sleepy Sun Bear, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches.

New Feathers, Fruit Bats and Sleepy Sun Bear, also each 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper… all 4 are included in J. Mane Gallery’s “Fins, Feathers & Fur” online exhibition opening today and on view through May 2022. All four are the same size and price.

Elements of Nature

Saturday, January 1st, 2022


 

Paint Arson, 11H x 11W x 3D inches acrylics on canvas


 
Cumulonimbus, Montana sunset, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paperPaint Arson, 11H x 11W x 3D inches acrylics on canvas (2009), wrapped sides painted, frame unnecessary. Set on shelf or hang on wall. This and Cumulonimbus: Montana Sunset (2020) are in J. Mane Gallery’s ‘Elements of Nature’ online juried exhibition, showing through January 2022.

I don’t always have clear intentions behind my work, other than to make it interesting of course, because I wonder if too much explanation muddies a fresh impression of it. However, the writing connected to “Paint Arson” is worth the read. Fire is a destructive force, and positive associations with it are not immediate. For example, the pinecones of Sequoia, the largest trees on Earth, only open under the extreme conditions presented by fire. Read on…

Petrified Forest

Friday, December 24th, 2021


 

Petrified Forest, Crystal Forest Trail, AZ - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

Art Room Gallery merit award for Trees and Fields - Petrified Forest and Kananaskis Valley Petrified Forest, Crystal Forest Trail, AZ – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on 90 lb. cold pressed watercolor paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”, white wood frame, crackle finish.

In addition to Kananaskis Valley (mentioned earlier in Grey Cube Gallery Forests and Meadows), this piece won a merit award in Contemporary Art Room’s exhibition, “Trees and Fields”, showing online through December, 2021.

Chicory

Saturday, November 13th, 2021


 
Chicory, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

Chicory, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper (done April 2021 – now sold), showing through December in Las Laguna Art Gallery’s online exhibition, Botanical Art and Illustration.

Honorable Mention

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021


 

                 

  Honorable Mention, Landscapes 2021, Grey Cube Gallery   Kananaskis Valley, Alberta Canada - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper   Kanisku National Forest, Idaho - 14 x 20 inches watercolors

Kananaskis Valley (Alberta Canada) and Kaniksu National Forest (Idaho USA) both received Honorable Mention, Forests and Meadows Grey Cube Gallery’s online competition and exhibition, Nov. 2021

In Full Bloom 2021

Thursday, June 17th, 2021


 

Prickly Pear Cactus, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33 inches.
Prickly Pear Cactus, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33 inches.
Chicory, Beautiful Invasion, Blue Flag Iris, and Orange Milkweed are all accepted entries in J. Mane Gallery’s online exhibition: In Full Bloom 2021.

Chicory is sold. All are the same size and price.

  Chicory, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper   Beautiful Invasion: Scotch Broom, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper   Blue Flag Iris, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper   Milkweed along Hwy 69 Kentucky, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper  

MFA’s ‘Oh The Places I Would Go’

Saturday, February 20th, 2021


 
Queenstown Peaks, New Zealand - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paperQueenstown Peaks, New Zealand – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper and Lake Louise, (Alberta, Canada) 16 x 20 inches acrylics on canvas Lake Louise, 16 x 20 inches acrylics on canvasare on view at the Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) online exhibition, ‘Oh the Places I Would Go’ Jan 22 – Feb. 26, 2021.

The prospectus suggests, “Oh the places we would go if we weren’t in quarantine. Or maybe, oh the places we will go once the world is safer. MFA’s fifth People’s Choice exhibition is all about the special places that we can’t be right now and places we’re dreaming of.”

Landscapes of the Mind

Sunday, December 6th, 2020


 
The Campsite and Winter Forest Dogwood exhibiting in Landscapes of the Mind, Santa Clarita CA

Two pieces will be showing at the Landscapes of the Mind exhibition at the First Floor Gallery, Santa Clarita city hall December 2020 through March 19, 2021. Here is the link to the virtual exhibition (work shown is not to scale). My two pieces, The Campsite and Winter Forest: Dogwood, both watercolors, are located just to the right as you enter, behind the central walls.

 

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