Current Happenings in the Studio
I often have pieces in progress; when I'm working on a painting, that can be my main focus for a month, or two or six.  When I reach the stage when it feels like it is getting closer to finished, I like to sit with it for awhile. It helps me to remove myself from the actual movements and process and lets me see it as its own being; it takes a moment to come into itself. So, they'll sit on an easel or hang on the wall until I can clearly see what they need in order to be finished. 
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I'm working on a series of wildlife that live in my home, the Greater Yellowstone Area. The textures and fluidity with Arches Paper, Water Soluble Graphite, Pencils, and Conte Crayons allow a looseness and freedom, and my travels lead me to experience these animals. Bison (Mammoth Area- Yellowstone National Park) and Magpie (Pryor Creek, Central Yellowstone County) start off the series. More to come.

I love the interactions and influences found in relationships. This painting investigates the melding of the Snowy Mountains in Central Montana and three horses: the all-seeing gray gelding, Pop, the maternal palomino mare, Cat, and the young, inquisitive black colt, Gus. It's been both linear in its process of painting and also a wide assimilation of integral parts. The colors sprang from stones and plant material that I found as I worked on this.