Faces & Figures | St. Augustine Art Association
Two recent works exploring presence and psychological tension in the human figure were selected for Faces & Figures, a 2026 juried exhibition at the St. Augustine Art Association.
Blurred Lines Between Reality and Imagination
Editor’s note: This profile originally appeared in First Coast Senior Living on October 6, 2025. The article was written as part of a feature on creative lives in St. Augustine and Northeast Florida.
Why People Work
One of my earliest published pieces, written for the John Deere Journal in 1974, long before I imagined a life centered on art. Even then I was drawn to questions about what motivates people to work, think, and persist—questions that still echo through my photography and painting.
Painting Fiction vs Painting Non-fiction
A short reflection on the boundary between realism and invention in painting—and how works like The Weight of Memories move between observation and imagination.
The Artist as Mad Dervish
A reflection on painting as a process of chaos, discovery, and restraint—where the artist begins in wild motion and gradually learns to listen to what the canvas is trying to become.
Facing the Blank Canvas
For an artist, there’s nothing as daunting yet exciting as facing a blank canvas. The possibilities are infinite; and so are the risks. My approach is to simply make some brush strokes or marks or splashes of paint and see what that triggers. I try to keep the process an in-the-moment improv dance between eye, […]