Skulls
Since our first days of making art, humans have used the image of the skull to express the transience of our own mortality. From the annual interaction with the afterlife of Dios de Los Muertos, to Shakespeare's iconic stage dialog between Hamlet and the skull of Yorick, to pop culture marketing its brands, products, and memes; skull imagery and iconography stand out as one of the most universally recognizable and symbolic graphical gestures to exist. There is no need to localize, translate, or even vocalize the visual of a skull; they speak for themselves. Designing and painting this series ironically had me thinking more about present-day life to be lived than the future of non-life that is guaranteed for us all. The channels and pockets of space between the shapes in these paintings are a way for me to express how quantum physics feels to me when I consider my own time here. The art we make now can continue to live and expand its influence in our absence.
Yellow Flock Skull
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2024.
Original is available.
Red Family Skull
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2024.
Original is available.
Blue Star Skull
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2024.
Original is available.
Blooms
For my plant and flower paintings I like to manipulate scale and color to help tell the story of the plant or express a meaning I've assigned to it. For instance, the scale of my painting The Last Stargazer is loaded with personal, factual, and conceptual meaning; in this case it's a flower that blooms for only 2 weeks each year and spends the rest of its time living and preparing for that moment. It made me wonder if we could be stargazers, able to resurface and enjoy the view above; an idea so clear and beautiful that it prompted an immediate painting.
The Last Stargazer
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2022.
Original is available.
Flowing Blooms
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 x 1.5 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2022.
Original is available.
Leafy Blooms
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 x 1.5 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2022.
Original is available.
Buckhorn
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2021.
Private collection in Port Orchard, WA.
Yellow Blooms
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2021.
Private collection in Shoreline, WA.
Red Blooms
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
Painted in Day Creek, WA. 2021.
Private collection in Bremerton, WA.
PowerPoint Mountains
These fully scalable digital artworks were created by scribbling with an old-timey mouse in PowerPoint. Instead of trying to make these look like my paintings or other work, I decided to let these digital drawings do whatever they needed to do to express how these different locations and moments made me feel as both an artist and a mountain athlete; the lush vegetation of Hawaii during Xterra World Trail Run Championships, the jet trails over Mt Rainier while running the Wonderland Trail, and running the Aspen trail in New Mexico in the fall.
Mt. Baker from North Fork
PowerPoint slide.
Created in Seattle, WA. 2016.
Canvas prints available.
Wonderland Trail around Mt. Rainier
PowerPoint slide.
Created in Seattle, WA. 2016.
Canvas prints available.
Kaawaa Valley in Oahu
PowerPoint slide.
Created in Seattle, WA. 2016.
Canvas prints available.
Wheeler Peak from Taos
PowerPoint slide.
Created in Seattle, WA. 2016.
Canvas prints available.
Aspen Trail in Santa Fe
PowerPoint slide.
Created in Seattle, WA. 2016.
Canvas prints available.
