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I live basically next door to the Hambidge Center, an artist residency program created by Mary Hambidge in 1934. Besides taking advantage of the programs and meeting artists from all over the world I have taught and taken several workshops. Check out their website at www.hambidge.org. One project I did was to produce a portfolio…

I am afforded the luxury of a deck surrounded by forests and mountains to sit, drink my coffee and listen to the birds as I’m waking up. Today I had the rare treat of a bear sighting. I’ve run into bears a few times while hiking but have seen them more often from my deck.…

The prints I produced for the Rizomi exhibition dealt with the symbolism of plants and the foraging of medicinal plants. Air / Soil / Self didn’t make it into the show but I really like the simplicity and the vaguely eastern balance. Air / Soil / Self – Relief print

The playing field ain’t really level. We’re just told it is. A Dismembered and Chaotic Pluralism – Letterpress / Collage / Stencil / Acrylic

A ghost print is a print pulled from a plate or block without re-inking first. These are usually either a mistake or a step in cleaning a plate but sometimes the effect is used on purpose. I will often play with the concept to make mono-prints. I throw most away but some are complete enough…

A week or so ago I wrote about the Cardinal couple kissing. I finally got a photo of them kissing but the male got shy and turned his back as I hit the shutter.

I was never really a Merry Prankster, just a devotee. I did get on the bus around 1972 and have had a good trip ever since. This print was produced a half century later. Get on the Bus (Further) Letterpress / Stencil

I have a thing about crows. I fed successive generations for 7 or 8 years. They once brought me a gift of a frog skeleton and would sit in the trees and caw at me (I’d caw back) when I was putting out their food. One day they disappeared. I would see crows (same ones?)…

Did you ever read Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey? He did more things than write One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and take LSD. Sometimes… is about the logging in the Pacific northwest. I read it after moving to the mountains and it had a profound effect on me. The Happ-n-So property I…

I don’t often do landscapes and I rarely carry sketching supplies when I’m hiking but often will hike, come back to my studio and produce drawings from my favorite remembered lines. They are very abstract drawings of scenes I saw. These are photos from a series I produced in oil pastels. These lead to totally…