Warmer 
Blanket 
Take-Off 
Early Evening 
Night RideEva Lake: Take-Off
Oil on canvas, shown at Augen Gallery in August, 2006. I also showed with Portland Modern in the same month. All works 2006, 36 in square:
Warmer Blanket
Take-Off Early Evening
Night Ride
24 inch square, 2006:
Lavender Field
II
the
Italian 
Orchid II
Deeper Dive
Take Off
My goal in painting is to create an experience as opposed to a composition. I treasure an infinite space and would like the paintings to function more like a drink or a drug or what your favorite song does to you.
My favorite subject and place is the open sky and because I love it so, I paint it many times. The format of the grid released me to explore what always interested me: how color changes and moves, creating a painting which functions like a living object.
The phenomena of how light moves I witnessed on a particular night jet boat ride a few years ago. There seemed to be no horizon line; the sky and water were nearly one, a dark almost black. When the boat took off the city lights gyrated manically. This was no landscape but an unforgettable experience I am now translating into paint.
People have said that the work also looks like woven fabric. A probable influence is my family’s collection of Indian rugs and weavings, all at one time belonging to my Grandfather who was part Indian. Those woven pieces were the first pieces of art I ever saw and they are sort of coming back to me in my own work. I use no stencils or airbrushes and the results are similar to the irregular organic patterns found in both nature and those weavings.
Click here for works from my last exhibition at Augen Gallery in April 2005.
Click here for project in progress, the Richter Scale
Lovelake