May 31, 2009

Please contact Stephan Fine Arts Gallery for Sales information : (907)274-5009 or 1(800)544-0779 .

First Friday Reception

Snow City Cafe 1034 W. 4th Avenue Anchorage, Alaska , (4th Avenue and L Street downtown.) June 5, 2009 5:30 - 8 pm

I am pleased to announce that I will have new paintings showing for the month of June at Snow City Cafe. Please drop by and say hello.

My painting "Uplift" has won "Best of Show" and my painting "The Way to the Sanctuary" has won "Peer's Choice Award" in the Art for Alaska Parks Competition. Please see below for the images of the paintings.

You can now purchase prints of my work at Town Square Art gallery in Wasilla and at Stephan Fine Arts Gallery.

Added new images to the front page and created new "Figurative Gallery".

The Frontiersman Newspaper has published a three page spread about my artwork.

My painting "Seeking the Light" has been chosen as the recipient of a Rasmuson Art Acquisition Grant to purchase Alaskan Art. This has been awarded by the Palmer Museum of History and Art.

My Painting "Waiting for the Mist" has won the Alaska Art for the Parks award for "Best People in the Park". The painting "Envelopment" can be seen at Stephan Fine Arts Gallery .

I am a member of Oil Painters of America.

New

Below is my new painting " The Coming of Summer".

Above: "Distant Land", 36" x45", oil on canvas.

:Above: Detail of Palmer Field , 20" x24", oil on canvas.

Below: "Sudden Light" , 20" x24", oil on canvas.

Below: "Embrace" , 20" x24", oil on canvas.
Abobe: Detail of "The Swan at the Source" 20"x24" oil on Canvas
The Artist in Front of the Award Winning Painting " Waiting for the Clouds"
The family spent some time on Fox Island this summer. This is the view from the deck of our cabin. My easel is in the foreground.

"...It is as if the artist has created his own mythology. It is a very romantic, evocative painting, technically well balanced and very strong, formally" - Lucinda Barnes, curator of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art commenting on the painting "Journey"

"Intense!"- Overheard at an exhibition

"...paintings represent a blend of neo-impressionism and prehistoric Celtic fantasy...Each painting is richly colored...to capture the emotion of each work...mystical and enticing"- Andy Nau, Anchorage Daily News art reviewer reviewing solo show at Decker/ Morris Gallery.

"Your landscape have a grand, almost Wagnerian impact. When you look at them you get a sense of the mountainous landscape as dwelling for the gods." -

Andries Fourie, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Willamette University , Salem, OR