field paintings en plein air

EXPERIENCE

Oil and Watercolor Painter:
Steamboat Springs, CO 1971-2013
South Royalton, VT 2011-2013

GALLERIES

White Hart Gallery, Steamboat Springs CO
Portico Gallery, Montecito, CA
Cow Canyon Trading Post, Bluff, UT
Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT

GUEST ARTIST

Russell Rotunda, Senate Office Washington DC 2013
“Mountains of the American West”
Pt Reyes National Seashore Fiftieth Anniversary, Guest Lecture, CA 2012
Hayden Heritage Days, Dorothy Wickenden’s Book Signing, Nothing Daunted
Art Show and Sale, Hayden heritage Museum 2012
Steamboat Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO 2011 & 2012
Utah Fine Arts Museum Guest Lecturer for exhibit “Monet to Picasso”, August 2008

LANDSCAPE SEMINARS

“History of American Landscape Painting” Tunbridge Winter Series Mar. 15, 2013
“History of American Landscape Painting” Oregon University Lecture, Feb 13, 2013
“History of American Landscape Painting and the Red Desert” Sweetwater Arts Center, Rock Springs, WY Jan 3, 2013
“Landscapes of the American West” Bud Werner Library, CO May, 2010
“Landscape Painters, Nature and National Parks” Pt.Reyes National Seashore Nov 4, 2012
“Adventure Painting-Barranca del Cobre,” Media show and lecture sponsored by Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), Tucson & Tempe Stores, AZ, February 2011
The Nature Conservancy’s Carpenter Ranch 2008
The Murie Center, Moose Wyoming, August 2007-2011

NATIONAL PARK EXHIBITS

“Landscapes, Nature and National Parks” Pt Reyes National Seashore, CA 2002, 2012
Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite Museum Juried Exhibit 2004-2009
Landscape Matters The Murie Center, Grand Teton National Park 2007
“Pt. Reyes Landscapes” Morgan Horse Ranch, Pt Reyes National Seashore Association, CA 2001-2010
“Landscapes of the American West” Maturango Museum, Death Valley National Park 2003

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY

Yosemite National Park, 2005

BIRDING

Loon Survey Volunteer, Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE),
White River Junction, VT 2013
Heron Egret Project (HEP) Cypress Grove Research Center, Marshall, CA 2005-2010

BIRDING EXHIBITS

“Habitats and Birds” Montpelier State Visitor’s Center, Montpelier, VT 2013
Colorado Crane Coalition Festival Art Exhibit, Steamboat Springs, CO 2012
“Habitats and Birds”, Pt Reyes National Seashore Fiftieth Anniversary, 2012
“Colorado Birds” Steamboat Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO 2012
“Birds in Our Backyard” City Office Commons, Steamboat Springs CO 2011

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITS

Drawing Connections Exhibit, “Warbler” Siena Art Institute, Italy 2011

Recent SOLO SHOWS:

Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT 2013
Tunbridge Public Library, Tunbridge VT 2013
Vermont Scenes, Chelsea Library, Chelsea VT 2012
Burlington International Airport, “Mountains of the West” Sept-Dec 2012
Birds of our Backyards” South Royalton Market, VT 2012
Building A Local Economy(BALE), South Royalton, VT 2012
“Sierra Mountains” Community Center, Folsom CA 2011
“Landscape Painting-Forty Years in Routt County” Steamboat Springs
Arts Council, CO 2011
“Preserved Landscapes” The Nature Conservancy, Carpenter Ranch, CO 2010
“Mountains of the West” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA 2006

PUBLISHED

Vermont Magazine “South Royalton Market” Spring/Summer 2012
Paint with Intention Painting Techniques, Amazon Kindle 2012
Fletcher Allen Health Care, “Chickadees” Calendar 2013
Steamboat Today “Landscape Painting and Conservation” 2011
“American Art Collector” Juried Competition of New York 2009 & 201
High Country News March 2006: "Painting for Progress”
Pt Reyes National Seashore Association Field Seminars Cover Art 2006-2007
Mill Valley Gallery Guide: Cover Art 2006
Press Democrat, “Artist Paints for Progress” Profile 2001

NATIONAL 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 1992
Yampa Valley Environment 2000, Citizen’s Stewardship Award 1991

Recent JURIED NATIONAL EXHIBITS:

Crocker Art Museum 29th Annual, CA 2007, 2010
“Artists Reflect on Sustainability” Sonoma State University 2010
Maynard Dixon, Mt. Carmel, UT 2002
Steamboat Arts Council, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Steamboat Spgs, CO 2001

TEACHING - Oils and Watercolor

AVA, Lebanon, NH 2011-13
Wyoming Wilderness Association, Sheridan, WY 2012-13
Pt Reyes National Seashore, Field Seminar, CA 2001-2013
Steamboat Plein Air Painting Workshop, 1995-2013
New Hampshire State Art’s Educators Conference, Habitat Painting Workshop, 2012
One Planet Windsor-Orange School District, VT 2011-13
The Nature Conservancy, Carpenter Ranch Preserve, CO 2003-2011
Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, 2000-2008
The Nature Conservancy’s Zapata Ranch, CO 2003-2007
The Murie Center, Grand Teton National Park, WY 2007-2010
Southern Utah Hike & Plein Air Painting Workshops, 1997-2012

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Cypress Grove Research Center, Marshall, CA
Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln NE
Sonoma Land Trust, Santa Rosa, CA
The Nature Conservancy, CO
Pt Reyes National Seashore Association, Pt Reyes Station, 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:

Pt Reyes Field Institute, Jack Laws 2009-2011
Pt Reyes Field Institute, Oliver Klink, 2011
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