I was born and grew up at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Reno. The landscape of the American West has always calmed me and steadied my heart. I need to paint these spaces. Spaces with which I feel kinship. Spaces which make me feel like I’m home.
They are the blur of my childhood memories. They are sediment and mountain shaped by time immortal. A dissolve of sunlight in the particles of parched air that carry sound, still and long. They are adorned with draught shaped wonders and skies of flowing stone. They are lonesome and demonic, pure in their inhospitable grandeur and uncaring of their sapien witnesses.
These are spaces as I see them and as paint can only describe them. Ruminations on time, erosion, rebirth, and a longing for place.
Sunset on a day of mourning, oil on canvas, 36″ x 60″, 2024
Sunset on the east mountains across the valley, study, oil on board, 5.5″ x 5.5″, 2025
Tin cabin with a rusty barrel on the west ridge, study, oil on Gessobord, 7″ x 5″, 2025
Western light from my neighbor’s field, oil on canvas, 60″ x 60″, 2024
August above the Turquoise Trail, oil on canvas, 60″ x 48″, 2024
Pyramid Lake in May, oil on canvas, diptych, 20″ x 48″, 2023
Snow and irrigation ditch, oil on board, ~ 4″ x 6″, 2023
Before the Heavens Fell (abandoned fort in Santa Fe”, oil on canvas, 72″ x 60″, 2023
Northern Pasture between snowstorms, oil on canvas, 48″ x 36″. 2023
Lost in Algodones, New Mexico, oil on canvas, 48″ x 30″, 2023
Afternoon tears over the Sandias, oil on canvas, 60″ x 40″, 2022
Agave and Cactus Field in Mexico or Texas, oil on canvas, 36″ x 24″, 2022
Canyon Storm, oil on canvas, 72″ x 36″, 2020
Dry Fields From Last Year, oil on canvas, 28” x 23.75”, 2020
Thirsting Land, oil on linen, 40 “x 40”, 2019