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Artist Statement -



Water Play

Over the years, I have continued to explore and portray the beauty and sensuality of the natural world. I have returned time and again to the realism of nature as a subject because it provides me with a visual language that best expresses the abstract energy and emotional color that I find essential in my art.

My primary visual interests are water and the phenomenal forms that reside upon and within the watery plane. I love the tension created by objects such as leaves and lily pads as they hug the surface. I am fascinated by complicated levels of space created by trees, reeds, and other plants reflected in the water from above, combined with vines, leaves, and fish as they loom just below the surface. There is a painterly quality to these constantly shifting forms that allows me to mix and blend an endless variety of invented colors that create rich and satisfying contrasts of pattern and hue.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I wish to communicate my love of place and season to my viewer. I sense that I am depicting subjects that are very familiar to my audience, calling them to witness the sublime effects of light on water, freezing these moments in time and space...in a painting.


Artist Exhibitions



Solo Exhibitions

New Paintings, Rob Schouten Gallery, Greenbank, WA.
“Recent Paintings”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
American Art Company, Tacoma. WA
Columbia Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
Matzke Runnings Gallery, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Not In N. Y. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Small Fry”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Moss Adams, Seattle, WA
“Water Play”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA

Group Exhibitions

“Approaching The Landscape”, Stonington Gallery, Anchorage, AK
“Work in Progress” Fisher Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Bank of California, Seattle, WA
“The Natural World”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Collected Works”, The Public Art Space, Seattle, WA
Gallery Artists, Arterra, Bellevue, WA
“In Bloom”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Washington Year,The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. WA
Mt. Rainier Invitational Art Exhibition, Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Competitions

18th Annual N.W. International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA
The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
“Camera to Canvas”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Poncho Fine Art Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Chicago and Vicinity Art Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute
National print and Drawing Exhibition, University of North Dakota
New Horizons in Art, Mid Continental Plaza, Chicago, IL
61st Annual Texas Fine Art National Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
“Mid America 4”, The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
Annual Pacific Northwest Art Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum
34th Annual Puget Sound Area Exhibition, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Wisconsin Drawing Exhibition, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI

Awards

First Prize, The Wisconsin Drawing Exhibition, Milwaukee Art Center
First Prize, Racine Invitational Exhibition, Racine, WI
Purchase Award, New Horizons in Art, Chicago, IL
First Prize, 8th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum
Jurors Award, 74th Exhibition of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago
Third Prize, 17th Annual Mercer Island Visual Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA
Third Prize, New Horizons in Painting and Sculpture, Chicago, IL
Special Award, 12th Midwest Biennial Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Award of Merit, 7th Annual Container Corporation of America Show, Chicago. IL
Second Prize, 6th Annual Washington State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition
Purchase Award, 4th Annual Madison Art Association Exhibition, University Art Gallery

Commissions

Boeing Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, IL
The Sheraton Hotel, Long beach, CA
Westin Hotels, Dallas, TX
The City of Seattle, Seattle Aquarium
Nordstrom’s, Sacramento, CA
The Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Barney’s New York, Seattle, WA
Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, WA
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Saint Francis Hospital, Federal Way, WA
Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle WA
OASIS, Private Yacht, International
Weight Watchers Corporate headquarters, New York NY
Fine Art Resources, New York, NY
G.N.A. Corporation, Seattle, WA

Selected Permanent Collections

Bill and Melinda Gates, Redmond, WA
Jamison Financial, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Incorporated, Redmond, WA
Salish Lodge, Snoqualmie, WA
Jet West, Los Angeles, CA
The Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
The Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, TX
The Philipsborn Company, Chicago, IL
The Alaska State Art Commission, Anchorage, AK
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
HyattDelmonte Corporation, Des Plains, IL
The Kemper Insurance Corporation, Long Grove, I
United Bank, Houston, TX
Pacific Federal Bank, Seattle, WA
The University of Washington medical Center, Seattle, WA
Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, Seattle, WA
The Fairchild Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
The Northwest Acceptance Corporation, Portland, OR
The King County Art Commission, Seattle. WA
Peter Pendl, Qatar













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