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CHRIS MOENCH
AXIS OF HOPE PRAYER WHEELS 7 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 My first prayer wheel memorialized a hometown tragedy… On June 10, 1999, tragedy struck my hometown Bellingham. A gas pipeline ruptured and leaked 237,000 gallons of fuel into a creek in a city park. The gas exploded. Flames roared downstream 1.5 miles through a forested valley. Two 10-year-old boys and... Read more -
KIRK WELLER
DISCOVERED HORIZONS 7 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Horizon…expanse…distant view…opportunity…discovery… Growing up in Western Colorado, there was a constant scramble toward the near horizon toward the Colorado plateau. The breadth of the sky drew me west and I landed in the Pacific Northwest at age 23, with my family and friends many states away. It turns out one... Read more
Past
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MICAH KASSELL
TERMS AND CONDITIONS 3 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Every day we sign a contract - wittingly or unwittingly. A contract with a tech giant - A contract with a partner. Take out the garbage, pick up the kids. These terms are seldom questioned or challenged - for the good of order and abatement of chaos. The terms are... Read more -
JAMES FLORSCHUTZ
MEMORY MARKERS 3 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Assemblage of found materials is fundamental to my art practice. The process of assemblage imitates how the mind works in breaking down images and thoughts into fragments of memory. For me, memories can be elusive because they occur at the crossroads of perception and imagination. It is at this interval... Read more -
BETHANY ROWLAND
WHAT MEETS THE EYE 31 Aug - 28 Sep 2024 Catching sight of a raptor perched high in a gnarled snag, or soaring over its territory, looking for prey, is always an unexpected and marvelous gift. It stops me in my tracks. My focus sharpens, and the world feels lighter. For the moment, the bird and I are fellow seekers.... Read more -
EMILY BIXLER
FLOWERS FOR THE CRONE 1 - 28 Aug 2024 Flowers for the Crone is an exploration of humanity's relationship with nature, our fragile coexistence, and life's tendency to thrive amidst destruction. Utilizing found, discarded and offcut hardwoods, this work is seen as a collaboration with the wood shapes; directed by the nuances of each particular found piece. Made possible... Read more
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MARILYN JOYCE
THE ENERGY THAT MOVES THROUGH ALL THINGS 1 - 28 Aug 2024 I use my senses to explore a place, meaning my work comes from what I interpret as a place through what I see, hear, and sense as I move through the landscape. I research the area's history, culture, geography, and geology. One of the most critical aspects of this way... Read more -
SCOTT GELLATLY
MY WETLAND 6 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Obviously... it's not mine. The title of this exhibition speaks to the landscape that has informed my paintings for several years. It not only refers to the frequency in which I visit the small wetland areas near my home just west of Portland, but the manner in which I've internalized... Read more -
HELÉNA DUPRE THOMPSON
DETRITIVORE 2 May - 1 Jun 2024 In laypersons terms, a detritivore is a living thing that consumes detritus (plant or animal) in order to obtain energy and nutrition. By doing so, the detritivore releases nutrients back into the ecosystem. In this ongoing study (Detritivore), artists have allowed me into their studios to explore and photograph the... Read more -
WILLIAM PARK
Retrospective Hiccup 4 - 27 Apr 2024 I find myself cruising along, following the rules, making nice paintings ... then suddenly I'm out of control. Laughing. A joyous feeling takes over. A hiccup arises, 'I am going to get in trouble with the rules.' Then I snap out of it. Joy fills the studio And my soul... Read more
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PAUL XAVIER RUTZ
Small Forwards: Paintings of Girlhood in Basketball 7 - 30 Mar 2024 For the past three years, my wife, Whitney, and I have been coaching our daughter's elementary school basketball team. As volunteers with backgrounds in cheerleading and ballet, we tried various approaches to teaching the sport that first year. We learned to see basketball as an art of coordinated movement, like... Read more -
MARK DUNST
UNEXPECTED SOLITUDE 7 - 30 Mar 2024 When I was a kid, we lived in a sprawling apartment complex in Denver, CO. I must've been three or four at the time. On the way home from the tiny community pool, I realized I had left my favorite t-shirt behind. It was navy, short-sleeved and displayed a muscular... Read more -
ERIK REEL
STREET 1 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 My work has followed a life-long pattern of exploring aspects of how human consciousness processes visual stimuli, or what is often called cognitive processing, especially when involving two-dimensional information. Early on, this was based on a deep study of color theory and visual ambiguities and visual constancies involved in how... Read more -
WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION
JIM BRESSI, JEN CROWE, JAMES FLORSCHUTZ, SCOTT GELLATLY, MARILYN JOYCE, MICAH KASSELL, CLIVE KNIGHTS, WILLIAM PARK, MARYANN PULS, LORI RHODES, KEN ROTH, BETHANY ROWLAND, HELÉNA DUPRE THOMPSON, GARY VINCENT, KIRK WELLER 7 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 Read more
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ADAM GROSOWSKY
NEW PAINTINGS 2 Nov - 2 Dec 2023 Read more -
CLIVE KNIGHTS
THE WHOLENESS OF FRAGMENTS 2 Nov - 2 Dec 2023 The over-arching presumption of my creative endeavors is of a singular, shared cosmos of which we humans are ineluctably ensconced, and which claims us. By virtue of our bodily participation, and confronted by the common limitations of our body's perceptual capacities, their limited reach, we are destined to represent that... Read more -
MICAH KASSELL
UNLADED 5 - 28 Oct 2023 It is important in one’s journey to realize that we can only take in and take on so much before we become weighed down by our physical and mental baggage. In the past year, I’ve lost things that I’ve loved, and also shedded things and habits that I no longer... Read more -
TONY FURTADO
RING 5 - 28 Oct 2023 Using rings, links, and patterns sculpted from clay I explore the balance of fragility and strength in these forms. A few years back, I was watching a documentary about medieval armor, specifically chainmail. It spoke of how this age-old form of protection has been around for millennia and is believed... Read more
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SCOTT GELLATLY
SACRED SPACES 2 - 30 Sep 2023 This body of work celebrates the vibrancy and energy of nature. Not only the nature of our world, but of ourselves. Area wetlands provide the jump off point for my paintings, in that they inform my compositions. Rather than leaning into the descriptive elements of the landscape, I use its... Read more -
LORI RHODES
COMMON BONDS 3 - 29 Aug 2023 I am interested in the ways that people can come together, both physically and emotionally and in spite of their differences. Like many of us I find this challenging even though I believe harmony and unity are as necessary in life as in art. In this body of work I... Read more -
MARIEL PITTI
CUT IT OUT 3 - 29 Aug 2023 What is “ Cut It Out” all about ? Some time ago I started collecting packaging from dry food items. The titles of the drawings give you a clue. It was during Covid that I had the time and inspiration to work with these materials. In creating these drawings I... Read more -
MARYANN PULS
THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT 6 - 29 Jul 2023 Visual artist, MaryAnn Puls uses everyday visual stimuli, especially the interactions and unique amalgamations of nature and human made elements as constant fodder and themes in her abstract paintings and assemblages. In this body of work - The Shape Of Thought - her focus considers images that can form, morph... Read more
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KIRK WELLER
TANGIBLE MYTHS 1 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 We have little idea what specific story landforms tell. It is far too long to comprehend, and much of the record is erased. Epic battles have been—and will be—fought, won or lost. Missoula Floods. Celilo Falls. Tillamook Burns. And of the beings therein, glory and tragedy are undeniable with each... Read more -
WILLIAM PARK
UNBOUNDED 6 - 29 Apr 2023 UNBOUNDED That’s a glorious title. That’s the feeling I’ve been with since preparing for this exhibit. Last April I had a stroke that left me unaware and physically challenged for a number of months. Thankfully, with a lot of help from family and friends, l have recovered most of my... Read more -
KENNETH MARUNOWSKI
IDEA & IMPULSE 2 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Risk-taking, curiosity, intuition, problem-solving, physical engagement, spontaneity, abandon: these are among the elements that go into every abstract painting I create, elements that comprise what I refer to as a “spirit of play.” There are few guides to my process, particularly in its early stages, save perhaps a color relationship... Read more -
JAMES FLORSCHUTZ
ASSEMBLED FRAGMENTS 2 - 25 Feb 2023 The assemblage and collage of found materials is fundamental to my art practice. I am fascinated with how the collage process imitates how the mind works in breaking down images and thoughts into fragments of memory. I construct sculptures from thrown away materials which are deemed useless and obsolete, but... Read more
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HELÉNA DUPRE THOMPSON
UNINTENTIONAL SPECTACLES 2 - 25 Feb 2023 My upbringing in an industrial city (Providence, RI) and career as a firefighter have had a great impact on how I value and perceive my surroundings. My work looks at the archeology of mark making, history, and the detritus of contemporary civilization. It centers around the spectacles that manifest when... Read more -
WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION
JIM BRESSI, JEN CROWE, SILAS FINCH, JAMES FLORSCHUTZ, SCOTT GELLATLY, MARILYN JOYCE, CLIVE KNIGHTS, KENNETH MARUNOWSKI, WILLIAM PARK, MARYANN PULS, LORI RHODES, BETHANY ROWLAND, GARY VINCENT, KIRK WELLER 1 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 A vibrant collection of recent work by the gallery's represented artists. Read more -
SILAS FINCH
CARAPACE 3 - 26 Nov 2022 The shell of the horseshoe crab is not unlike the armor we build up around ourselves: a personal carapace that protects us from the surrounding world. Within the horseshoe crab, there are millions of years of evolution. They remain unchanged, a living fossil. The simplicity and beauty of their carapace,... Read more -
BETHANY ROWLAND
WHEN ATTENTION BECOMES DEVOTION 3 - 26 Nov 2022 Fine art photographer Charlotte Watts recently sent me an exquisite image of a single feather. 'I cannot feel this Barred Owl breast feather in my hand,' she wrote. 'It is 'nothingness', or perhaps we are, and it is there all the while... being breath exhaled.' I was moved by her... Read more
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GARY VINCENT
I SING OF TREES 6 - 29 Oct 2022 Walking in the woods has been a lifelong pleasure. Taking a trail through trees always evokes a sense of adventure. Better yet, leaving the trail to wander at leisure through the many patches of aspen on the western slopes of Steens Mountain. Autumn colors, unique trunk shapes, irregular black scars... Read more -
CLIVE KNIGHTS
PASSAGES TO THE END OF A WORLD 1 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Being mortal is perhaps the most profound commonality we share as human beings. We venture through life marking it with milestones and gravestones, striding across one threshold after another without ever truly arriving, always on our way, en route, passing through. Life is an unfolding experience spun back to ourselves... Read more -
KIRK WELLER
UNDISCOVERED MOUNTAINS 1 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Most “discoveries” of places on Earth as documented in history books neglect the footfalls of prehistory. These places have already been discovered millennia ago. We seem to demand that our own perception is what matters most. If we go with that, then all mountains are undiscovered to this day, until... Read more -
LORI RHODES
THE GREATER GOOD 4 - 27 Aug 2022 I am influenced by recent pivotal events and my place in the world as a woman. Current events have consistently challenged long held perceptions and seeped into my psyche as well as my work. In the past few years a constant drumbeat of threats that impact our shared destiny as... Read more
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JIM BRESSI
ON ACCOUNT OF PAINTING 7 - 30 Jul 2022 On account of painting… In solitude, in silence, and and in softness, you may just find everything you’ve wanted to know about art. What I look for in a landscape is the slow, slightly dreamy, gracious moment, unfolding. Every canvas is a journey all of its own; a creative perspective,... Read more -
MARILYN JOYCE
VANTAGE POINT 7 - 30 Jul 2022 I engage with nature as my guide. I use my senses through my walking practice to connect to my surroundings and nourish my relationship with the land. Vantage Point provides a frame of reference, a perspective, to delve into one component of the landscape; the living, breathing world of plant... Read more -
SCOTT GELLATLY
POINT OF DEPARTURE 2 - 30 Jun 2022 The landscape is my jump-off point. My visual springboard. My point of departure. In this collection of paintings, I continue to reimagine nature's color palette, albeit in ways that are further removed visually from the original source. I have put a greater emphasis on memory and embracing the unpredictability that... Read more -
JEN CROWE
VISCERAL VIEWS 5 - 28 May 2022 Everyone’s experience over the past two years has been deeply personal and has changed us in ways we might never have expected. The pandemic has shone a brighter light on stark differences in our country. For some, location and access have played a large role in how they have moved... Read more
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WILLIAM PARK
FROM BUCKETS AND BIRDS TO GOLDEN LEAF 7 - 30 Apr 2022 I was in high school and the paint brush had just been invented. It seemed like something one could do any number of surprising things with, so I decided to give it a go. WOW!!! It's hard to imagine all the really cool stuff one could do with those bristly... Read more -
JAMES FLORSCHUTZ
MEMORY FRAGMENTS 3 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 The assemblage and collage of found materials is fundamental to my art practice. I am fascinated with how the collage process imitates how our minds work in breaking down images and thoughts into fragments of memory. I construct sculptures out of thrown away materials that have their own histories and... Read more -
MARYANN PULS
THE SHAPE OF THINGS UNKNOWN 3 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 I'm interested in visuals which fall out of the realm of representation but regardless of how abstract manage to express something that feels real. . My work is a manifestation of my observations and thoughts. I’m inspired by the endless formations created by nature and those created by humans, but... Read more -
KYLE "Wetiko" DANLEY
HOME 12 Feb - 1 Mar 2022 As an anxious and restless creative, with a million ideas, it's rare that I ever truly feel settled. There was an excitement in 2003 to leave home and attend art school in the intimidating city of Detroit; begin my adult life. My youth was enjoyable, innocent and safe, however freedom... Read more
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WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION
NEW WORK BY THE GALLERY'S REPRESENTED ARTISTS 2 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 JIM BRESSI . JEN CROWE . SILAS FINCH . JAMES FLORSCHUTZ . SCOTT GELLATLY . MARILYN JOYCE . CLIVE KNIGHTS . KENNETH MARUNOWSKI . WILLIAM PARK . MARYANN PULS . LORI RHODES . KEN ROTH . BETHANY ROWLAND . GARY VINCENT . KIRK WELLER Read more -
BETHANY ROWLAND
LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN 14 Oct - 23 Nov 2021 This past week, on three consecutive days, I happened to look up at a slice of sky framed between urban roofline and trees, and was graced with the reassuring sight of the fall bird migration. On Day 1, it was a dense kettle of swirling, rising Turkey Vultures; on Day... Read more -
SILAS FINCH
BEFITTING 14 Oct - 23 Nov 2021 Shoes are befitting to who we are. They offer a glimpse into the life of the wearer. They have personality, speak of stature, strife, labor, and craft. In movement and standing still, they are suggestive for how one carries themself. Over time, they become worn, tired, wrinkled, scuffed, set aside,... Read more -
CLIVE KNIGHTS
AUTOCHTHONOUS CITIES & OTHER LIMINAL WORKS 2 Sep - 12 Oct 2021 The artist and cultural commentator John Berger has said, “We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.” I maintain that the work presented in this show is the outcome of such acts of drawing, despite... Read more
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KIRK WELLER
FROM A DISTANCE: Across the Great Divide 2 Sep - 12 Oct 2021 The title of this show was taken from two songs popularized by Nanci Griffith, a wonderful folk musician, who died this August. We’ve had a lot of loss lately so it seemed fitting to take titles from two songs she brought to form: From a Distance , written by Julie... Read more -
LORI RHODES
SIGNALING 5 - 31 Aug 2021 Signaling offers work that I have created in the past eighteen months. It is my attempt to make sense of this new world and find hope within it. The isolation along with unprecedented pain in 2020 made the desire for human connection palpable. The work represents an attempt to understand... Read more -
JIM BRESSI
NEW PAINTINGS 1 - 31 Jul 2021 Jim Bressi extends and clarifies the importance of landscape painting. With no rules or limits, he creates with intuitive motion. He paints with a light touch across the canvas and clarifies the importance of generating imagery. He draws intrinsic vision from exploring in the mountains and seaside. His paintings summon... Read more -
MARILYN JOYCE
WISP 1 - 31 Jul 2021 Wisp explores my deepening connection to the land and sense of place by observing winter and early spring turning points. The seasons act as a working guide in the process of living and making. The subdued vitality of winter months gives way to early spring's explosive power, explored through daily... Read more
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SCOTT GELLATLY
A GLIMPSE OF NATURE 1 - 29 Jun 2021 I am constantly amazed by the tapestry of color, texture, and pattern of the natural world. I draw imagery from multiple sketches and studies created at local rivers, wetland areas and nature preserves. These sketchbook sized works in casein serve as a means of information gathering to respond to in... Read more -
WILLIAM PARK
NEW PAINTINGS 6 - 31 May 2021 My work in this show is a continuation of work that has been growing in large part since 1980 when a friend introduced me to Richard Diebenkorn’s work. I came to realize my connection to structure and how it helps bring some order into a life teetering on the edge... Read more -
KEN ROTH
TRANSITIONS 6 - 31 May 2021 2020, it is obvious to say, brought many changes to us all. It was, and still is, a confusing time in which to plan and make “life decisions”. It was in July of 2020 when my partner and I, Maria Carey, were given the opportunity to make a big change... Read more -
KENNETH MARUNOWSKI
SPIRIT OF PLAY 1 Apr - 4 May 2021 Risk-taking, curiosity, intuition, problem-solving, physical engagement, spontaneity, abandon: these are among the elements that go into every abstract painting I create, elements that comprise what I refer to as a “spirit of play.” There are few guides to my process, particularly in its early stages, save perhaps a color relationship... Read more
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JEN CROWE
PAINTINGS 3 - 30 Mar 2021 My paintings are created without the use of brushes using a mixture of oil and cold wax. I use paint in an extensive layering process to create a “history” on the panel. Throughout this process I focus on the use of color, texture and line. These elements portray depth through... Read more -
CLIVE KNIGHTS
PRECIPITATIONS 3 - 30 Mar 2021 Ironically, collage might be the most liberating creative medium. Despite being a process of gathering image material already wrapped up in everyday life, previously spent, so to speak, in its contribution to former intentions of which the collage-maker played no part (e.g. popular press, literature), it nevertheless inspires an intuitive,... Read more -
WINTER SOLACE
GROUP EXHIBITION 17 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 A Group Exhibition featuring eleven Represented Gallery Artists. JIM BRESSI, CHRISTIAN BURCHARD, SCOTT GELLATLY , SARAH B HANSEN, MARILYN JOYCE, ANNIE MEYER, WILLIAM PARK, KEN ROTH, BETHANY ROWLAND, GARY VINCENT, KIRK WELLER Read more -
SARAH B HANSEN
WILD WALKS: An Artist's Journey Through Sights and Sounds of Pacific Northwest Trails 29 Oct - 12 Dec 2020 WILD WALKS: An Artist's Journey Through Sights and Sounds of Pacific Northwest Trails presents contemporary landscape artist Sarah B Hansen’s latest exploration into her decades -long Northwest hiking journeys, through the use of mixed media paintings and auditory tracks. The mixed media work presented in this solo exhibition are created... Read more
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KIRK WELLER
LOST SOLITUDES 3 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 It’s good having people around. But our world is too full of people. Solitude connects us with the absence of others. And it is the absence of others which is one of the most poignant things we endure or enjoy in this life. Growing up in Western Colorado, the most... Read more -
BETHANY ROWLAND
SIGHTLINES: On Seeing What is Really There 3 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 We are living in a time that calls for hope and generosity and clarity of vision. Our lives have been upended by a virus we can’t see, in a world already wounded and hurting, and where our attention is easily squandered on what we fear. There is so much that... Read more -
MARILYN JOYCE
DARK SKY RHYTHM 2 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 I consider myself an artist grounded by the earth, in the land; feet planted while I walk, senses heightened and amplified by nature. Thus my work, reflecting that profound connection. The skies, always above me. This past fall and winter, I had opportunities to visit eastern Oregon and specifically the... Read more -
SCOTT GELLATLY
CATCH AND RELEASE 4 - 30 Jun 2020 Imagery comes from where I feel the most deeply rooted. These paintings have their origins in the numerous, small wetland areas near my home in Portland. Multiple sketches and plein air paintings have been created on-site, catching the endless supply of compositions and color relationships. These studies serve as the... Read more
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WILLIAM PARK
FRIDAYS WITH FRED 7 May - 2 Jun 2020 In April 2007 a tall, lanky fellow entered my studio near the end of an exhibition party. He was an interesting sort. During our conversation I asked if he would consider sitting for me. He readily agreed. This was the beginning of our weekly sessions. We each brought our skills... Read more -
KEN ROTH
THROUGH THE VEIL 27 Feb - 2 May 2020 This current body of work represents for me an attempt to approach painting from a new point of view. My preoccupation has been to challenge myself with the process by which I build an image, specifically an attention to surface, chromatic range, special definition, luminosity, and the tension of open... Read more -
JASON MAYER
NEW MONOTYPES 8 Jan - 22 Feb 2020 My monotypes are often a direct response to personal experience, a ritual held between the threshold of the subconscious and intent. I will use photos I have taken as a means of reference to reconstruct still framed eye witnessed accounts, as well as work from my imagination, no image, connecting... Read more -
SARAH B HANSEN
LAYERED LANDSCAPES 7 Nov - 28 Dec 2019 Opening Reception November 7, 5-8pm Read more
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JAMES FLORSCHUTZ
ACCUMULATION 31 Aug - 2 Nov 2019 Accumulation is a collection of works that investigate the concepts around society’s detritus, consumerism and obsolescence as it relates to knowledge and skill in culture. I accumulate and alter used up materials and assemble them into sculptures. Each sculpture might suggest a tool or a certain application of a tool.... Read more -
JASON MAYER
NEW MONOTYPES 31 Aug - 2 Nov 2019 My monotypes are often a direct response to personal experience, a ritual held between the threshold of the subconscious and intent. I will use photos I have taken as a means of reference to reconstruct stilled framed eye witnessed accounts, as well as work from my imagination, no image, connecting... Read more -
MARILYN JOYCE
PLAYA REFLECTIONS 3 Jul - 28 Aug 2019 First Thursday Reception, August 1, 5-9pm A key component of my art practice is walking the land and being present in the environment. My passion for the natural world, joined with walking, provide parameters for my art. This firsthand connection allows for the discovery of a place through sound, color,... Read more -
VICKI SHUCK
NEW PAINTINGS 6 Jun - 2 Jul 2019 “Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.” T.S. Elliot, excerpt from “The Four Quartets” Capturing moments of life has been my focus with my oil painting for about the past 15 years. I begin by carrying a camera with... Read more
