Alpine Spring Canvas Print

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Spring in the mountains comes slowly, and the snow takes its time to recede.

High in the Blue Mountains of Southeast Washington and Northeast Oregon, a hike in the high country, without snow shoes, has to wait until June some years, depending upon the snow pack.

The air is cool, fresh, clean, beautiful, quiet. Along the saddle of the hillside, clumps of snow cling tenaciously to the grasses, and the hiker who steps off the trail steps between them.

Alpine Spring, the artwork, invites the viewer to step into the country rural wilderness, this landscape of quiet and tranquility. The intriguing thing about wilderness lands is that life goes on within them, whether we are there or not. This is something easy to forget, when we get absorbed in our “modern” lives of work and phones and office cubicles and commitments: these encroach so strongly on our lives that we begin to think that this is all there is to life.

But up in the mountains, in the landscape of A...

I am a fine art painter who creates representational images celebrating light, life, and color. A commercial illustrator for more than 20 years, I have been painting for most of my life, and in the last 13 years have focused exclusively on fine art. I celebrate images that invite the viewer to step into the artwork and experience a sense of joy, peace, freedom, encouragement, meditation, and thought. There's a lot of angry art out there, as well as a lot of shallow pop. I choose to use the abilities and experience I have to promote beauty and goodness.