Abstracted from memory and poetry

"Primal Pebble"

I picked up a cool pebble at our Cebolia camp.

If she could see and speak, she could tell us an epic story.

Rounded and polished in the Colorado's ancient glacial floods,

then her skin was blackened by air and sunlight.

The shinny black conceals a heart of hot iron colors from a fiery birth.

Ages ago big sister rocks were visited by native hunters

who carved through her blackened skin to warm life colors.

Prayerfully on the rocks imaging their memories, maps and dreams the hunters made the blackened rock a character in our history.

"Primal Pebble" is acrylic on stretched canvas, 48" x 24"

"Fleeing Home" is an abstraction from my memories of driving past the Walker Indian Reservation, Nevada. It is acrylic on stretched canvas, 24" x 48".

"Reed Sunset" is an acrylic painting on Museum wrapped canvas 24" x 36" x 1 1/2". Reed unset is a memory painting from doing many preliminary watercolors on location and bringing home momentous. As I painted it I was interested in abstracting the essence of the sunset experienced in our Winnebago parked right out by the water's edge with reeds on either side of us. Because we were dry camping without electrical hook up we sat in the dark motor coach looking at the last glow of sunset through the reeds. We listened to the birds nesting in the reeds.