Pacific Portal 1, 40”x 30”, oil on canvas, 2014
The gallery contains recent work, selected earlier watercolors and oils, and a two-part video from a one-person show at the Boise Art Museum.
As Portland-based art critic and writer Richard Speer writes: The ocean—and nature in all its forms—permeates his aesthetic sensibility in ways difficult to overestimate. The artist [has a] gift for distilling a composition down to its powerful, primordial bones. Confident and assured, yet never showy, these are the works of a master of chroma and composition… From teachers and mentors, intense observation, an experimental attitude toward materials, and an innate sensitivity to the possibilities of line, he learned to distill an image’s components into an alloy of representation and abstraction so intertwined, so highly developed—to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke’s truism about science—as to approach magic.
Shaman’s Trail, 22” x 30”, watercolor on paper, 2015