For the past several years, I have been painting watercolors of the Idaho landscape. I paint from photos I have taken while hiking in the areas around Boise, McCall, Ketchum/Sun Valley and Stanley. I have built a collection of paintings of places I love, which can be seen on my website. Having walked in, recreated in, and lived in Idaho for many years, I feel very connected to its landscape. I see geometrical forms in the hills and mountains that change shape and color with the time of day, the weather, and the seasons. I like to paint Idaho’s unique beauty: the mountains, the blue lakes, the alpine forests, the clear rivers, the high desert vistas, the vegetation, the rock formations, the wildflowers, and the wildlife. My goal is to make the painting as evocative of the place as I can so I can experience it again along with other viewers. My paintings art not generic landscapes of mountains and scenes that could be anywhere. They are quite detailed paintings of specific places in Idaho and people often recognize the locations. I have now started a series of paintings from our national parks. I also do abstract paintings with a technique called "pour" painting with several layers of paint. I currently sell cards and prints at the Boise Art Museum and original paintings through my website.
ART EXPERIENCE
Selected for the 51st Annual Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Center
for the Arts Evergreen, 31880 Rocky Village Dr., Evergreen, CO, September 19 –
October 26, 2024
Selected for ”The Anthropocene Epiphany”, juried group show at the Orange County
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California, July 3 – August 21
Capitol Contemporary Gallery, Boise, Id., member 2019, two person show in June 2019
City of Boise Visual Chronicle purchase, 2017
Group show at Surel’s Place, Garden City, Idaho, November 2016
Artist of the Month, St. Lukes Medical Center, Eagle, Idaho, December 2013
Selected for “Local Color-Boise 150”, juried show sponsored by the Treasure Valley
Artist Alliance and City of Boise, June 2013
Selected for City Traffic Box Art Project, Boise, ID, installed August 2012
Signature member of the Idaho Watercolor Society and a four-time award winner at
IWS shows
Group show at the Basement Gallery, Boise, ID, November through December 2008
Booth at Ketchum Arts Festival, juried show, Ketchum ID, July 2011
Booth at Art in the Park, juried show, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, September 2011
and 2012
Show at Initial Point Gallery, Meridian City Hall, Meridian, ID, juried show, November
2011
Show at the Eagle City Hall, Eagle, ID, March 2012
EDUCATION
Watercolor or oil workshops with Pat San Soucie, Ann Templeton, Cathy Woo, Judy
Morris, Jerry Seagle, and Stan Miller, 2000 - 2013.
University of Idaho, College of Law, Moscow, Idaho, Juris Doctor Degree 1981
Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts in English
Minor in Fine Arts, B.A. 1969
