Heaven and Earth

The Tower; 12 x 9.5"; pastel on paper

  This week I began a series of small pastel drawings in conjunction with the larger landscape paintings.  Here's the latest one.

Faculty Exhibition Opens Monday

  The Annual Faculty exhibit at the Community College of Rhode Island is being installed today.  I entered a small pastel drawing from my recent series of landscapes based on the book The Sheltering Sky.  The opening reception is this coming Monday, February 25 from 4 to 6 pm at the Flanagan Campus Gallery in Lincoln, RI.  See you there!

The Sheltering Sky

  I recently completed a small series of pastel drawings in tandem with the larger charcoal drawings of trees.  The pastels were a chance to rest while in the midst of the much more demanding large-scale work.  The composition was inspired by an image by Adolph Gottlieb, Orb.  I worked with this idea of balancing two compositional elements.  The resulting landscapes began to remind me of my former home in the Sonoran Desert as well as the novel by Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky.

The Desert; 8 x 6"; pastel on paper

Swelter; 8 x 6"; pastel on paper