Fall is upon us! I would like to invite you to an Open House on Sunday October 19 from 2:00-5:30 pm.
Wine, cheese, and a chance to visit and see a few new paintings. I hope you will be able to come!

 I would like to show you 10 paintings from what will become a larger series of paintings of beautiful Quadra Island. Please click the image below to view this new series.

From the Beach House IV - Still Dawn (detail), Quadra Island.

I'm also working on a new series of kite surfers on Nitinaht Lake. The first (below) is now finished and appeared in an advertisement in this month’s Preview Magazine. I was intrigued by the brilliant turquoise of the lake surface as seen from within the dark shadows of the lakeside forest.  

View from the Forest - Kiteboards I (detail), Nitinaht Lake. Available as giclée print.

I'm pleased to announce that three more of the long-horizontal series of landscapes from Spain & Provence, including Eygaliers (shown below), are now completed. In October, some of the Paintings of the Sun posted this spring on my website will be exhibited at the Café Pane e Formaggio between Sasamat and Tolmie at 4532 West 10th Avenue. I will be changing the exhibit several times over the winter to show examples from the new Island series as well as the landscapes of Provence and Spain. Stop by for excellent coffee!

Eygaliers, 2008. Acrylic on multimedia board.

American Visionary Art Museum Four paintings of the Kindertotentanz series will be exhibited in a larger exhibition “Marriage of Art, Science and Philosophy” at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM), a beautiful world-class institution on the inner-harbor of Baltimore, Maryland. The exhibition opens October 2008 and runs until September 2009. Founded in 1995, the AVAM was designated by Congress as America’s national museum for self-taught artists. The Washington Post wrote: “...with eclectic exhibitions of self-taught artists, the Inner Harbor museum, like the artists themselves, stands decidedly outside the mainstream.”  The museum has won the support of collectors and the public through exhibitions that examine the relationship of art to the human condition, rather than to the canon of art history. It sounds like my kind of place: questioning authority and convention; too stubborn to know its place. I plan to go to the opening party Friday October 3, 2008. If anyone would like to come and celebrate with me — particularly those nearby in Baltimore, Annapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Virginia — I can get tickets that would allow you to attend. Let me know ASAP.