I first saw the Wedgewood Rock while studying the Puget landscape in Graduate school. I remember being thrilled by this enormous rock sitting in the middle of a modest mid-century suburb in northeast Seattle. The rock is evidence to the size and power of a glacier that once covered the entire Puget basin. It was…
Looking at and drawing ice cores at the National Ice Core Lab and University of Washington’s IsoLab was a beautiful and intimidating experience as an artist. My original attraction to this subject was the rich and long history that the cores contain. I have spent cold hours rendering several of the cores with a certain…
In November 2007, I traveled to Denver, Colorado to spend three days drawing ice cores inside a freezer at the National Ice Core Laboratory. This spontaneous trip was driven more by curiosity than a worked out plan and on the way there I began to worry. I had to face the possibility that the ice…
My images come directly from nature. I am influenced by history, natural science and studies in Landscape Architecture. When rendering plants and land, I am attempting to illustrate memory and time. I like to imagine all of the human events that have occurred in a place and observe how each subject is altered by these…