12"x16", Oil on Linen $1,400
“Settling into Evening” was painted below the dam across the Otter Tail River. It shows the sun setting as it shines its last light upon the regal and well-preserved Phelps Mill.
2024 Prairie Lake Plein Air 2nd Place
2025 MPAC Exhibit at Marshall Area Fine Arts Council
12”x16”, Oil on Linen, $1400
2024 Red Wing Plein Air
2025 MPAC Exhibit at Marshall Area Fine Arts Council
8”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,000
“Late Bloomers” was created in western Otter Tail County on a bright August morning along County Road 21. I loved the flow of flowers from the barn across the prairie to Lake Moen.
Prairie Lakes Plein Air 2024
16"x20", Oil on Linen, $2,200
Above an expanse of prairie, this one-room schoolhouse offered a glimpse of the past through the contemporary lens with the hole in the roof, boarded-up windows, and tired paint. But the way the last light of the day skipped across the chipped and peeling paint had me reaching for my softer brushes and more luminous colors so that the action of my hand could gently move with the light.
Prairie Lakes Plein Air 2024
6"x8", Oil on Linen
Red Wing Plein Air 2024
We were given 2 hours, but I started over, giving myself little over an hour!
30”x40”, Oil on Linen, $7,200
I was so struck by the light spilling through skyway and across the rail lines. The complimentary colors and temps in the shadow sides of the glass and stone buildings all offered a remarkable challenge to be knitted together and filled with reflected light.
9”x14”, Oil on Linen, $1,200
Patrician Gallery
1135 Central Avenue
Wilmette, IL 60091
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $900
Patrician Gallery
1135 Central Avenue
Wilmette, IL 60091
14’x18”, Oil on Linen, $1,600
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Minnesota Plein Air Collective
Bell Museum: MPAC Moments of Memory
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Red Wing Plein Air, 2023
14”x18”, Oil on Linen, $1,600
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Created During Red Wing Arts Plein Air Autumn Invitational, 2020
18”x24”, Oil on Linen, $2,800
All of these seemingly common things move our eye around the painting, inviting us to be present to our time and place.
12”x18”, Oil on Linen, $1,200
16”x20”, Oil on Linen, $2,200
Far as I could tell, this may be the northern most rail line along the north shore. The old ties spoke to the history of the place.
16”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,200
Painted just south of Duluth on a cloudy day where it felt like all the colors to come to play.
18" x24”, Oil on Linen, $2,800
Former Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak, @rtrybak, emailed me after he saw this painting. He said,” It reminds me of many fall days door knocking neighborhoods like Seward and Northeast. Too many people pass in and out of these scenes without seeing what is special.”
.Thanking him, I wrote back and shared this story:
"That piece was painted on location this past fall. Early in the process, I noticed a grandmother and her granddaughter watching me. I turned and wished them a ”good morning.” Then Grandma introduced her granddaughter as an 'artist' and went on to tell me how she indeed prefers making art to nearly everything else - books, TV, iPad, etc... So I invited the peanut to “help”
I work on the painting. I lowered the easel to where she could work and briefly shared what I was looking at and thinking about.
We mixed up some paint, and then, with the biggest brush, she made the shadows fall across the street. She was wonderfully locked in on where and how the end of that brush was moving across the canvas.
There’s always time to make someone else’s day - just like the Mayor and the peanut made mine.
16"x20", Oil on Linen, $2,200
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8”x12”, Oil on Linen, $850
This is a 50/50 plein air/studio painting. It was a very hot and humid day, and I wasn’t the only person looking to beat the heat in downtown Minneapolis, and it was time to move on. I remember how the place came to life with ambient light, perspective, and design. It felt like a math problem solved in poetry.
7"x9", Oil on Linen, $700
8"x10", Oil on Linen, $800
18”x24”, Oil on Linen, 2,800
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $900
Winnewissa falls feels like an oasis, in an otherwise expansive prairie landscape. Ancient faces emerge from the stone formations around the site. Were they living, they’d belong to giants. I felt small, and grateful to be allowed to paint by that same stream.
“For countless generations, American Indians have quarried the red pipestone found at this site. These grounds are sacred to many people because the pipestone quarried here is carved into pipes used for prayer.” Learn More on the National Parks website.
12”x16”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $900
12"x9", Oil on Linen, $800
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
12"x16", Oil on Linen, $1,400
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $900
12"x20", Oil on Linen, $1,600
8"x10" Oil on Linen, $700
9"x12" Oil on Linen, $800
8"x10", Oil on Linen, $700
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $700
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $800
11”x14”, Oil on Linen, $900
This is a memory painting, reflecting upon a winter hike I did with a friend along the Cascade River.
12”x16”, Oil on Linen, $1100
The air around Lake Pepin was filled with melting snow and light.
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
12"x18", Oil on Linen, $1,400, 2015
Plein Air & Studio piece created while an Artist in Residence with the Science Museum of Minnesota’s St Croix Watershed Research Station.
8"x10", Oil on Linen, $900, 2015
Plein Air & Studio piece created while an Artist in Residence with the Science Museum of Minnesota’s St Croix Watershed Research Station.
11"x14", Oil on Linen, $1,200, 2015
Plein Air & Studio piece created while an Artist in Residence with the Science Museum of Minnesota’s St Croix Watershed Research Station.
12"x16", Oil on Linen, $1,400, 2015
Plein Air & Studio piece created while an Artist in Residence with the Science Museum of Minnesota’s St Croix Watershed Research Station.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
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Created During Red Wing Arts Plein Air Autumn Invitational
9”x12”, oil on linen
It is funny how sometimes the simplest thing can put you in a time machine. I grew up on roads like this. Riding my bike to a friend’s, or going to the store. The closest one was 3 miles away. In middle school that seemed like The Tour de France. There’s nothing special about these roads until you think about all the people that live in one direction or the other. Or how these two roads were probably gravel when the barn was built. Do you see the barn? Just beyond the field, there’s a barn peeking out from under the tree line. It reminded me of a dog that knew it was in trouble or a toddler that doesn’t quite get how to play hide and seek. Beyond the barn, the road gently rises through the cast shadows of trees and phone poles. Behind me, Andy Evansen is creating a poem of a backlit cow in a midsummer pasture.
