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Winter

I love the look of winter.Where I live it's very neutral, bare and, what some might call, dismal.I would rather refer to it as quietly beautiful.Even though we seldom see the extravagant beauty of ...

See

A friend of mine recently came to the barn for the first time. He's a professional photographer. Actually, his name is Paul Moore.I love how sensitive Paul's eye is to beauty. Sometimes where you l...

Fresh Start

It's a new year. I always love that feeling.The tree is down. The ornaments are stored. The lights are unplugged for another year.Life seems calmer, cleaner and a bit less cluttered. It's a perfect...

An exciting day

I am branching out, literally.I am opening my own gallery in the most unlikely of places - a barn. As you round the bend into the town of historic Leiper's Fork, the first building to greet you is ...

Shelly's Arm

Friday night my wife and I received one of those dreaded calls saying our oldest daughter had fallen and broken her arm.Suddenly we're in the emergency room.The next day she's in surgery.The next n...

Wings of the Wind

It is early morning, shortly after daybreak, and I am sitting at the edge of Lake Michigan on the beach. The air is quite chilly - I am snug in my sweatshirt.The clouds have rolled across the sky l...

Handwritten

There is not much I would rather receive than a handwritten note or letter. It is a gift in itself. (I'll admit, it's a bit ironic that I'm talking about "handwritten" as I type away on these littl...

Story

I am sitting here with my cup of coffee this morning pondering a very large painting that I just completed. It is only the second time in all these years of being an artist that I have painted a pi...

Miracle

Each spring my youngest daughter and I await eagerly for the first signs of bluebirds to appear inside their houses. When we see them busily going to and fro, we start peaking inside to see the nes...

The Making of a Painting – Part 4: The Result

We've reached the end of the series and here is the final result. “In God We Trust” ended up being one of the more complicated paintings I have ever pursued. But I’m so glad I did.Thank you for joi...