Reaffirm, renew, invent and explore

  Now is the time to find new ways, look for better places and explore unforeseen options in order to maintain sanity and redefine to save our art careers.  Many things will never be the same (for some, sadly, more than others) but new opportunities will present themselves as we struggle to make sense of the constant changes. My brick and mortar gallery is closed and will not reopen anytime soon. All effort and time is now being focused on launching an online gallery for my website. We are working out the details to make it easy to peruse and purchase with confidence. The new gallery will be offering the highest quality canvas prints of my most popular paintings. They will be stretched, gallery wrapped and coated with a satin finish true to the originals. In fact, they can easily be mistaken for originals. the quality is exquisite!

Center Panel 40x30

This is "Center Panel" one of the many images that you will be able to choose from the new online gallery. Also available will be greeting cards, my two coffee/end table books, puzzles and a fist full of other cool stuff that will be added as we expand this new venue. Soft launch should be sometime next week! I am looking forward to sharing this new adventure and hearing any comments that you have. Stay healthy and happy.......Don

Pastoral Dreams

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Breakthrough 48x60

 Pastoral Dreams is a three person show opening on September 20th showing thru October 3rd at Ventana Fine Art on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am pleased  to be one of the selected artists represented by this great gallery. I will be showing with Natasha Isenhour and Barry McCuan. A reception will be held on September 20th from 5-7 p.m. I am looking forward to a fun packed evening!

Sky Light 36x36

 I will have a total of 16 paintings available for this show including the five shown here.

Bluff Trilogy 30x40

If you happen to be flipping through the pages of a current issue of  "Fine art Connoisseur", the "Santa Fean" or "Southwest Art" you my see one of the ads or reviews for this show.

Early Rise 36x48

Spring Creek 48x36

"Spring Creek" has already been sold! It's exciting to see them go before the show opens!

Ventana Gallery

I am excited to announce that my art will be represented by the prestigious Ventana Gallery located on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I gained acceptance into this  gallery early in February and recently shipped three of my newest paintings that will be hanging with the likes of John Nieto and Rebecca Tobey! You can check it all out at http://ventanafineart.com/

Early Start 40x30

Restoration Complete 30x40

Spring Creek 48x36

These are the paintings that are now on display and may be purchased from the Ventana Gallery!

Port Townsend Film Festival poster painting

I was asked to create an image for the 18th annual Port Townsend Film Festival poster. The festival is a huge event held in mid September and attracts film lovers from all over. The finished painting depicts the closed off street with the blow up screen and the mesmerized viewers perched on hay bales bathed in the evening light of the Rose Theatre.

The painting was sold the night of the banquet when  it was unveiled and now hangs in the lobby of the Rose Theatre.

Mainstreet Gallery

On the move, again! It's Done! After a month of remodeling our new space, we have officially opened the new gallery and studio in the Flagship Landing here in Port Townsend. This will be my permanent studio and gallery for a while. Stop by and check us out!



We are located at 1015 Water street in the Flagship Landing. This door is the entrance to the gallery as you walk into the mini mall. very accessible and inviting.

It is a bright, clean, happy space to display art. We installed some great lighting and the paintings look great! This is the view as you walk through the door and enter the gallery .



It is a smaller space than I am used to but there is ample room to step back and enjoy each painting.

This space will be my new studio where I can work on some of the commissions that I recently acquired. it will be a nice place to paint, I even have a sink!





It is exciting to have room to display my larger works. The Madrona piece is 6 foot tall and 8 feet wide! 





I can even display some of my connected pieces. Each panel of this series is 24"x48"



Painting large

This madrona tree series is made up of five custom made panels. Each panel is 72 inches high and 18 inches wide. The panels are cradled two inches deep so I continue the look by painting a "gallery wrap" around the edges of each panel and they look very impressive hanging with a one inch gap between panels.

Reaching Out, acrylic on panels, 72x90

Fields and Fences

I have been busy painting a new series of my "Fields and Fences."  Here are a couple that I just recently had photographed. It is fun playing with some new color combinations. I am intrigued with shapes and the fields and roads can be whimsically manipulated in so many ways!

Around the Bend, acrylic on canvas 36x36



Morning Light, acrylic on panel 36x36