View from Arlo's 2

14" x 14", $2,100

View from Arlo's 1

10" x 22", $2,100

I graduated as an illustrator from art school, but soon found it wasn’t the career I wanted to pursue. I found it difficult being obligated to, and limited by, somebody else’s designated commercial needs. So instead I determined to paint my singular vision.

            Painting at best is a singular paramour and luck is eccentric. I spend much time on each painting I do, and while friends say the painting is finished, definitely finished, it never is. Emotionally I have to follow my own heart until the painting says to me yes, this is now the answer to your passionate, consuming quest.

            I love the land, In my paintings and in the black soil filtering through my hands in my garden.

            After a raucous youth, I determined to build and cherish – not to despoil. I try to find a point of peace and quiet and offer it to an agonized and hostile world.

            I find sorcery in sunsets when hundreds of birds suddenly fly into the air from orange tipped black trees, and the earth before me is warm and surprising. Magic!