I am painting this summer. A small garage is my outpost. For many years I have been fascinated by qualities of the urban environment including the urban-rural fringe—-the spaces and edges of the landscape. My paintings this summer, 2026, follow specific works from the summer of 2025. Here are some of my daily notes:
Urban-Rural Fringe
6-28-26
The work explores a true period of life—the place where people live and work. The expression is honest.
6-29-26
Art helps people to understand feelings of hope, mercy, and forgiveness. Artists portray the conflict of having emotions.
6-30-26
To utilize traditional techniques of depiction to portray iconic qualities of contemporary culture.
7-1-26
Painting is a responsive act and an inventive act. To paint, one must see, interpret, and invent.
7-2-26
Painters engage with a balance of detail and generality, the art is knowing how.
7-3-26
The craft of art involves the attention of the artist. Each work of art seeks to match the vision of its conception.
7-4-26
Take time to re-charge as an artist, experience life, see, listen, and reflect.
7-5-26
Live with your work, it takes time to form a relationship—let the art speak back to you.
7-6-26
Sometimes one must go forward with bold strokes, and, sometimes one must go forward with ordered strokes. Art involves both sides of passion.
