Installation view of The Rock Garden

Image courtesy of Shawn Long Photography

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Excerpts from Flow

Around 210 feet

from The Rock Garden


Around 220 feet, The End!

Selections from the Rock Garden

In August 2007, with the drawing "Flow" 2/3 complete, I did a series of 16 rock portraits in a sketch book while backpacking in Humphries Basin in the John Muir Wilderness in Fresno County. All of these portraits were transcribed into the scroll as part of its final 20' grand finale. In addition, a few of these portraits were incorporated into the paintings that were completed for the exhibit as well.

(appears in "Calm at the Top")

(appears in "Rock Still Life")


ink and graphite on paper
image size 5 x 7
framed size 9 x 11
Archival framing from Katayama Framing in Portland Oregon
dark finished walnut frame by Marcial del Cid of Aloha Oregon
8 ply museum rag mat, and UV filtering glass

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A Pair of Pairs, The New View!

Rock and Reflection
35 x 35
oil on canves 2002
1 of 2

Still Life Rocks
35 x 35
oil on canvas 2008
1 of 2

These images, mostly painted this past January were executed as a pair of diptychs where the canvases in each represented nearly identical images. As the work was being arranged for installation, I realized that by placing the two different images together and stacked vertically with the "Rock Still Life" painting as the lower image, I had a new diptych configuration that utilized the two separate images to create a single scene. Happy accident and lucky discovery. The pair of pairs worked as a very effective installation.

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More Flow!

Holy crap! presentation of this drawing is a major engineering and planning nightmare. With the installation date only 11 days away I have images to have printed and framed and the display case to build and finish, paintings to complete and more to frame, and the video installation is in the hands of others and I can only pray that it all comes off professional and on time! Enjoy another section from the 200' scroll while I go pull out my hair!

Painting Interrupted - "The Opposite Shore" 1987/2003

Started in 1987, this painting got packed up and placed in a storage unit in Southern California, along with the rest of my artwork, supplies and tools. There it lay fallow for sixteen years. When I collected my art from storage and brought it home to Portland in 2003, the grey sky, some green underpainting, and a rough sketch in indigo linework was all that existed here. I had recently completed seven paintings on canvas that I'd stretched onto bars made in 1988. Once I got the feel of my paint craft back again, I returned to this canvas, which was charged with meaning for me as the symbol of my separation, and my return as well, from my former life as an artist. This painting contains the root imagery for the drawing "Flow" as well as the drawings and paintings that will form the supporting cast in my upcoming exhibition in May, where it will be seen for the first time.

oil on canvas 25 x 35

Flow

Well, I've been away for a week and jet lagged for another so haven't posted much in a while. Now that I'm back in the saddle I'm trying to prepare various artworks for exhibition at the end of the month. Much of the focus now is on the display of a 200' scroll of paper with a drawing of an alpine stream on it's length. Here are a couple excerpts from this work.

"Flow" at 70 feet

"Flow" at 185 feet

"Thirteen Stones" in progress

Here is a detail from something I'm working n right now. It no longer resembles this image and is such a small part of the overall painting that I feel free to post it here. I'll put up all of the finished products in May so be patient!

Lake rock

This is finished now and will be paired with another almost identical mage to form a sort of double vision diptych