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Monday, December 4th, 2023
Astoria, OR landscape – Between Sun and Storm, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”.
Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach OR
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Haystack Rock, protected as part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Cannon Beach OR, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”.
Warmth in Winter
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Cape Meares Fog OR, left, and Campfire Smoke, Yosemite National Park CA, above, each 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, 27H x 33W inches framed size, showing online January 28th – February 28th in Pastel Society Alaska’s Warmth In Winter exhibition.
Exhibition: Emptiness
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Showing online Dec. 15 – Jan. 15, 2023, Exhibizone’s “Emptiness” – Petrified Forest – Crystal Forest Trail, AZ – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. White frame with crackle finish, total size 27H x 33W inches.
This piece also won a merit award in Contemporary Art Room’s exhibition, “Trees and Fields”, showing online in December, 2021.
H2O
Friday, July 29th, 2022
Stormy Oregon Coast (2018), 4H x 6W inches watercolors
Honorable Mention in J. Mane Gallery’s “H2O” 2022, opening July 31st, 2022.
Kootenai National Forest
Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
Kootenai National Forest ID, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, 27H x 33W” framed size.
Cape Meares Fog
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Cape Meares Fog OR (2021), 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Showing in-gallery at the Art Center of Morrow Bay, CA. Pastel Society of the West Coast 99 Voices in Pastel 2022, June 30th – Aug. 7th
Green Tree Frog
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
American Green Tree Frog on Crocosmia leaves, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Showing in Fusion Art’s 7th Annual “Animal Kingdom” International Online Juried Art Exhibition, September 2022. Asian Elephant is also in the exhibition and received the “Artistic Excellence” award.
Fire in The Gorge
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
Fire In The Gorge, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W”.
Known as the Eagle Creek Fire, on Sept 2, 2017 a wildfire lit by a 15 year old destroyed 50,000 acres in the Columbia River Gorge, mostly in Oregon with some fires in WA. The fire burned for three months and Hwy 84, a historic route into and out of Portland, was shut down for much of that time, forcing travelers, including me on my way to Alberta, to take side-routes. That year there were forest fires in the mountains all along the drive north, and a border patrol officer commented, “You have ashes all over your car”.
Crater Lake OR
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Crater Lake State Park OR, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches, white wood frame, crackle finish.
Crater Lake’s water is in reality a vivid and surreal blue. I reworked the lake colors and background textures quite a bit, trying numerous techniques to create unique water representation, and at the same time make the surrounding mountains recede… resulting with these vertical line textures. I finally made the call to stop because in trying to fix things in some areas, other areas that were fine started becoming messy. Pastels and paper were pushed to their limits.