Patience - SOLD

Patience

24" x 12"

Acrylic on canvas

SOLD

The farm we're on has tons of beavers that are always busily building dams in the streams that run through the land.  When a flood comes, they take advantage of their good fortune and acquire lots of good, high-up branches that they usually don't have access to when the water's low.  We have a chewed-off branch sitting on our window sill - the bite marks from the beavers are so smooth and polished, and the branch is really quite beautiful.

When trials come, for come they will,

Be patient if you can

-from "Patience" by S. Moore

Seattle show

I'm excited to be starting my month-long show at the Burk Gallery in Seattle, WA.  We helped to hang the paintings last night, and the arrangement looks great.  It's a mix of older and newer work, and the pieces flow really well together. 

The official opening reception is on Thursday, November 11, and there will be an additional closing reception on Saturday, December 4.  If you're in the area, I hope you can stop in & say hello and enjoy some art and refreshments! 

Burk Gallery
340 15th Avenue East, Suite #350
Seattle, WA 98112
206.708.5880
[www]

Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 11, 5 - 8 PM
(part of Capitol Hill's Second Thursday Blitz Art Walk)

Closing Reception:
Saturday, December 4, noon - 6 PM
(Holiday Show)

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In other news, I will hopefully be posting a photo later today of a new painting, so stay tuned.

My portfolio encountered an unfortunate loss recently: Crossing the Yellowstone is no more.  It was damaged by the shipping company while it was en route to Freshwater Studio & Gallery.  Apparently, the poor painting was impaled by something while in transit. :(



Rest In Peace, my dear buffalo!



Harmonious Thoughts

Harmonious Thoughts

acrylic on canvas

20" x 24"

Available for purchase at Revolution Gallery, Issaquah, WA

This is actually a departure from my Montana paintings, although it doesn't look like it. We came upon this sunset in southeastern Washington.

The texture is more subtle in this piece than in my other landscapes, and I used some pearl paint to give it a glow.

"Harmonious thoughts, a soul by truth refined,

Entire affection for all human kind.

...

How pleasant, as the sun declines, to view

The spacious landscape change in form and hue!

Here, vanish, as in mist, before a flood

Of bright obscurity, hill, lawn, and wood;

There, objects, by the searching beams betrayed,

Come forth, and here retire in purple shade..."

-William Wordsworth, "An Evening Walk"

Proctor Art Gallery Anniversary

The Proctor Art Gallery is turning a year old this month! We're throwing a party in celebration. I hope you can stop by and say "hi" if you're in the area!

Show in Tacoma, WA

I'm excited to be hanging my art at the Northern Pacific Coffee Company in Tacoma, WA starting on November 30! The NPCC is a great venue with wine, beer, super tasty food, open-mic nights, regular live music, books, etc...sort of a one-stop-shop for the art-inclined crowd. David and Dan in Blackbird Pie have played a number of shows there.

Northern Pacific Coffee Company

401 Garfield St. S.
Tacoma, WA 98444

(253) 537-8338

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In other news, my computer has been on the fritz lately, making updates sporadic (particularly on my web site). Hopefully the situation will be rectified soon...I wonder if my iTunes music collection may have finally taken a toll on my computer's 8-year-old hard drive (nothing drives me crazier than planned obsolescence!)