July 2009

My drawing today didn’t get interesting until I admitted my mistakes,
Until I stopped trying to be perfect,
Until I let the picture have something to say–
responding to what was really there, instead of my
expectations,
assumptions,
and fear.
I have often felt as though my art is my child–
If that is true, I don’t want to treat it like Michael Jackson:
Driving it to a destiny of artifice
and performance without substance…
Caving in on itself.
Honesty and uncertainty are the truly interesting things.

The human things.

Mi Casa, a house in Aruba, oil pastel on paper, 9″x12″

My ocean series is being featured this summer at Dreamclinic Massage! The clinic has been named best of the best in the country for massage by Allure magazine, and listed among the best places in the city for massage in 2007 by both Seattle Magazine and Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. The newly-remodeled space will be showing ten of my paintings in its downstairs lobby, all will be available for sale.

Pacific Coast Highway Mosaic, oil on canvas 12″x12″, 2008

Dreamclinic massage is located on 65th just west of Roosevelt near the freeway.

Hours of operation are:
Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 9:00 pm
Saturday 9:30 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday 9:30 am to 6:00 pm