I make images about natural places. I hope to create primary experiences –for myself as I work, for viewers who replace me in confrontation with the work— a transformation that offers back, in the languages of color, stroke, texture, movement what can be experienced of place. In so doing I rely on and open to others empathy, emotion, memory and time.
The places I choose are well known to me. I have made work about my garden at night, about Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor, UK, about my father’s Holocaust experience, and about the nature reserve along the Minnesota River, historically Dakota homeland, during seasonal flood and drought. Thoughts about knowing a place intimately, about history, nature and change are active as I walk and in retrospect as I work.
People tell me the work is beautiful, not an easy beauty but one that includes the fierceness of destruction, the cycles of decay and hopefully, replenishment. People also tell me that they use my work to ignite their memories, to revisit their own experiences in these or similar places. In order to engage in protecting our wild places and the multiplicity of ways in which they are essential, we need awe and pleasure alive within us.
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Image Gallery
Long Meadow Lake, Ebb and Flow, 2021
Oil stick on paper
44"hx56.5" framed, $4,500
Image title: 8_Long Meadow Lake Ebb and Flow
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Passing Radiance I, 2019
Oil stick and oil on board
36"hx48", $4,000
Image title: Passing Radiance I
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Passing Radiance II, 2020
Oil and oil stick on panel
36"hx48", $4,000
Image title: 4 Lyon PR II
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Passing Radiance III, 2020
Oil and oil stick on panel
30"hx40", $2,500
Image title: 4_Passing Radiance III
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Passing Radiance: Door Half Open II, 2020
Oil stick and oil on panel
36"hc48", $4,000
Image title: 2 Lyon PR Door Half Open II
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Passing Radiance, Door Half Open I, 2020
Oil stick and oil on panel
48"hx36", $4,000
Image title: 8 Lyon PR Door Half Open I
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Roman Road (Square) 1, 2020
Oil stick and oil on panel
36" square, $3,000
Image title: 6 Lyon Roman Road Squarel adj
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Roman Road (Square) II, 2021
Oil and oil stick on panel
36" square, $3,000
Image title: 7 Lyon Roman Road Square II
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Crosby Farm (blue and gold) #4 2020
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 19"hx25.5"; framed 26.5"hx34"
$2,000
Image title: Crosby Farm (blue and gold) #4
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Crosby Farm (sky-tinted water #2)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 24" square, paper 31.5"hx27" $1,800 unframed
Image title: Crosby Farm Sky-tinted Water #2, 2020
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Crosby Farm (sky-tinted water #1)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper image 19.5" square NFS
Image title: Crosby Farm (sky tinted water #1)
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Crosby Farm (spring flood #1)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 19" square, frame 31.5"hx27" $1,800 SOLD
Image title: Crosby Farm (spring flood #1)
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Crosby Farm (blue and gold #3)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper, Image 19.5" square, frame 31.5"hx27" $1,800 SOLD
Image title: Crosby Farm (blue and gold #3)
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Crosby Farm (blue and gold #2)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 15.5" square, frame 25.5"hx22" $1,100 SOLD
Image title: Crosby Farm (blue and gold 2)
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Crosby Farm (spring flood #3)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 18.5"hx26", frame 27"hx34.5" $1,800
Image title: Crosby Farm (flood #3)
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Crosby Farm (late afternoon, November #2)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 19" square, frame 31"hx26.5" $1,800
Image title: Crosby Farm (late afternoon #2) M
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Crosby Farm (late afternoon November #1)
Oil stick on Arches huile paper
Image 19" square, frame 31"hx26.5" $ 1,800
Image title: Crosby Farm (late afternoon1)
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Visual Prayer
Archival digital print on rice paper
Image 15"hx20.5, $250 unframed
Image title: Visual Prayer
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Soki's Room
Archival digital print on rice paper
Image 12" square $200 unframed
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In Soki's Room
Archival digital print on rice paper
Image 12" square $200 unframed
Image title: In Soki's room adj6 FINAL catalog
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In the Beginning Was the Garden Overlaid with Texts from the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible, the Koran and the Book of Mormon
Archival digital print, 22"hx17", $250 unframed
Image title: In the Beginning Was the Garden
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Wistman's Wood II#2
Oil and oil stick on panel
36"hx48"
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Wistman's Wood #1
Oil stick on gessoed paper
22"hx30"
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In Woods #2
Oil and oil stick on panel
Image 30"hx40", frame 31.5"hx41.5"
Image title: Lyon In Woods 2
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In Woods #1
Oil and oil stick on panel
Image 36"hx48", frame 37.5"hx49.5"
