The earliest of these portraits were drawn on behalf of the Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County during their pandemic online fundraising.

I discovered I love drawing dogs, who wear their hearts on their faces, and have continued to draw as direct commissions or as memorial gifts for friends.

A project doing oils and mixed media portraits of members of our local arts community. It was exhibited at the Ukiah Public Library in May and June of 2023.

In 2018 I was offered the opportunity to recycle a cache of paintings from a local artist who had died. They were her failed experiments, not part of her catalog. Realizing that several of the canvases were too heavily textured to be simply reused, I asked her widower's permission to work directly on these pieces. He graciously assented.

It was clear that this body of work would not be about her; rather the process would be a collaboration with her, responding in the moment to her marks, colors, and textures. The overarching theme would be mortality  

Having worked primarily as a figurative artist for many decades, this has been a very different and challenging project. 

It requires an openness of spirit and inquiry that hasn't been needed in my work to date. In common with all my work, it is intended to allow each viewer to enter and wander, finding their own narrative.

Velocity is a project that was born in 2014 while riding an Amtrak bus and snapping photos of the reflections and distortions captured in the windows as the late afternoon sun beamed through the western windows and straight through to the eastern windows. It’s part of a longstanding exploration of time and movement. All are acrylic paint on canvas.