Statement:

I am Canadian born, raised in Utah, and introduced to the desert at eight years of age. I have loved it ever since. I received a BFA and MFA from Brigham Young University and taught printmaking there for sixteen years.Drawing and then painting desert landscape has been my primary focus for over 50 years. You do the work, learn, teach, keep painting, maybe win an award or two (or not), but you love the work and go on painting. Lately, I seek out those views that get overlooked; not the scenic turnout view. Though I love slick-rock and towering red cliffs, I think I love the multiplicity of greys, siennas, pale ochres, blud-green or Morrison mills, purples and faded umbers of the badlands, even more. They tend to be what I paint these past years. Love of the desert, refuge, contemplation… an ongoing search for beauty… and the desire to paint something “worthy.”

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