Elk Falls Provincial Park 03, Vancouver Island, BC Canada, version 03, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.  White mat and white 27H x 33W” wood frame with crackle finish.

Cycad Leaf Fossil Chair, homage to the history of Earth, 29H x 29W x 29D inches up-cycled plastic vintage chair base, woven canvas strips, layers of plaster gradually cured, sanded and carved. Painted with acrylics, finished with varnish, and waxed to enhance colors. Functional art, very comfortable, durable.  Now being showcased at Creative Minds – 2023 exhibition, August 15 – Oct. 15, organized by Exhibizone and powered by @Biafarin platform.

The front of this chair is a rendition of the fossil of a Cycad leaf from the first species of palm-like trees that grew about 50 million years ago. The original Cycad leaf fossil was discovered in a Wyoming riverbed. The circumference on the back of this chair has an informal mosaic embedded with pebbles and authentic fossils of an extinct clam I found in a playground in the Dallas, Texas area.  The extinct genus of shells called Myalina are estimated to be 345 – 225 – million years old.
Completing the back of the chair, the surface is textured along with patterns of the bark and leaf scars of a fossilized Paleozoic Lepidodendron, a primitive species of the very first trees on earth, reaching heights of 130 feet (40 m) tall, with leaves that grew flat directly along the bark around 400 million years ago.

Eucalyptus Flowers and Seed Pods, 20H x 16W inches acrylics on canvas with weathered-look wood frame, has won a Silver Award in the 2023 In Full Bloom Online Art Exhibition at J. Mane Gallery, August 14th through Sept.

A Pretty Tail, 16H x 23W inches soft pastels on paper is showcased in Exhibizone’s Kingdom Animalia online exhibition showing Aug. 1st – Sept. 30th, 2023.

Just Sky, Summer sunset study – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.

The Strawberry, 24H x 18W inches graphite on paper.

Kootenay National Park, one of seven provincial parks that form the Rocky Mountains World Heritage site in BC, Canada, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.

Herb Pots, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. White mat, and framed version has white 27H x 33W” wood frame with crackle finish.

Showing at the 3 Square Art Gallery in Fort Collins, CO 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, “COLOR 2023” June 9 – July 14, 2023.

Showcased online in Biafarin – Exhibizone’s Gardenia 2023 International Group Exhibition June 1 – August 1, 2023.

In Fusion Art’s Lines, Shapes and Objects online Competition and Exhibition through June 2023.

Red-breasted Sapsucker, Hillsboro OR, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

Aspen / Poplar, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper