field paintings en plein air

STATEMENT:

"I adventure oil paint landscapes en plein air.  I am integrally connected to the land by teaching, painting, and preserving the wild places that I explore.   My landscapes evoke a poetic sense of place .  I follow in the footsteps of early painters of the American West."

EXPERIENCE:

Oil and Watercolor Painter:
Petaluma CA 2000-2011
Steamboat Springs, CO 1971-2011
South Royalton, VT 2011

                

GUEST ARTIST:

Steamboat Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO 2011
Door County Plein Air Paint Out 2010
Utah Fine Arts Museum Guest Lecturer for exhibit “Monet to Picasso”, August 2008
Exhibit “Women for Wilderness Quilt” March 2009

LANDSCAPE SEMINARS

“History of American Landscape Painting” Steamboat Arts Council July 2011
“Landscapes of the American West” Bud Werner Library, CO May, 2010
“Landscape Painters, Nature and National Parks”
Point Reyes National Seashore Nov 4, 2010
The Nature Conservancy’s Carpenter Ranch 2008
The Murie Center, Moose Wyoming, August 2007-2010

BOOK PUBLISHED:

“American Art Collector” juried Competition of New York 2009
“Paint with Intention” 2005

SERVICE AWARDS:

Steamboat Arts Council 1998 Distinguished Service Award-25 years of Service
Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Citizen’s Award, Denver CO 1997
Sierra Club RMC Conservationist of the Year 1996
Sierra Club’s Centennial Recognition-100years and 100 Heroes

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY:

Yosemite National Park 2005

Recent JURIED EXHIBITS:

Crocker Art Museum 29th Annual, CA 2007, 2010
Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite Museum, CA, 2002- 2009
ARTrails, Petaluma, CA, 2001-2009
Salute to the Arts, Sonoma, CA, 2000-2006
Maynard Dixon, Mt. Carmel, UT 2002
Steamboat Arts Council, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Steamboat Springs, CO 2001

Recent SOLO SHOWS:

“Landscape Painting-Forty Years in Routt County” Steamboat Springs, CO
Steamboat Arts Council, July 2011
The Nature Conservancy, Carpenter Ranch Nature Center, CO 2010
Pt Reyes National Seashore Association, Pt Reyes Station, CA 2000-2010
“Sonoma Landscapes” Sonoma County Bar Assoc. CA 2009
“Mountains of the West” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA 2006
“Landscapes of the American West” Maturango Museum, 2003

PUBLICATIONS:

Steamboat Today “Landscape Painting and Conservation”
High Country News March 2006: "Painting for Progress”
Pt Reyes Field Seminars: Cover Art 2006-2007
Mill Valley Gallery Guide: Cover Art 2006

Recent CONSERVATION SHOWS:

“Birds of the West,” The Nature Conservancy, Hayden, CO, 2004-10
“Landscapes,” The Nature Conservancy, Zapata Bison Preserve, 2005-09
Pt Reyes Red Barn, Pt Reyes Station, CA, 2004, 2010
WildPac, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Art Auction, 2000-2005
Marin Open Space, William Lester gallery 2003

TEACHING - Oils and Watercolor:

Steamboat Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO 2011
The Nature Conservancy, Carpenter Ranch Preserve, 2003-2011
Pt Reyes National Seashore, Field Seminar, CA 2001-2011
Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, 2000-2008
Southern Utah Hike & Plein Air Painting Workshops, 1997-2011
Steamboat Plein Air Painting Workshop, 1995-2011
Sight & Insight, Mill Valley, CA, 2000
Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1994-1996
Steamboat Springs Public Schools-Artist in Residence, CO, 1990

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln NE
Sonoma Land Trust, Santa Rosa, CA
The Nature Conservancy, CO
Pt Reyes National Seashore Association, CA
Bud Werner Memorial Library, Steamboat Springs, CO 
Tread of Pioneers Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO
Steamboat Springs Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO 
Routt Memorial Hospital, Steamboat Springs, CO

           

EDUCATION:

Scottsdale Artist School, Mark Daly, 1998
Plein Air Painters of America Workshop, 1997 & 1998
Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada, 1971
University of Lyon, France, 1970
Colorado State University, Colorado, 1967-1971
Born in Pasadena, California, 1949