"Coming Home IV" 24 x 24. This piece is part of my Coming Home series , a body of work exploring the movement from apathy toward empathy, attention, and presence. I’ve never been great at listening. My mind is usually racing with five different thoughts during every conversation, podcast, audiobook, or sermon. And more often than I’d like to admit, I’m not actually listening at all. I’m performing. As I’ve investigated why listening is hard for me, I’ve noticed that my desir

“If you work hard enough, you can do anything you want.”   “Next time, I’ll just work harder.”  “ I’ll sleep when I die.”  I’ve thought and said all these things over the course of my adult life. And, other than the last one, these are wonderful principles and ideas to live by, but not when it causes you to start moving in the direction of the last statement.  No rest.  Beneath that striving was more than exhaustion. It was a trust problem. When I decided to create this serie

"Coming Home II" 24 x 48, paper collage, string, and oil on cradled panel. Part of the Coming Home Series . "Coming Home II" represents my ongoing movement from apathy to empathy. A journey I didn’t even realize I needed to take until I found myself sitting in the quiet presence of the Lord, morning after morning, slowly becoming aware of how much I had closed off. We live in an overstimulated world. There is always something demanding our attention. And yet, ironically, i

"Coming Home I - VI" Paper collage, string, and oil paint on cradled panels of various sizes. Available. This series presents one tree viewed from six different angles across six panels that together span 20 feet. Beneath the painted branches of each perspective lies a collage narrative exploring a different facet of the transformation I've experienced this past year. Same tree, six vantage points, one story of coming home to who God made me to be. If you've been following m

"Coming Home III" Paper collage, cotton string, and oil paint on cradled panel. 24" x 48" (One of many works in the show. ) Making art and hiking a trail share something essential: both require attention to where you've been, where you are, and where you're going. They are also metaphors for living life in g eneral. In Along the Way, a solo exhibition on display at CACE Gallery in Fort Morgan (Jan 15 - Feb 19, 2026) I explore how the vantage points we choose on a journey—

Starting Point:   Every spring, I have high hopes for our backyard garden. Little by little, these hopes wither right alongside my tomato and pepper plants. By August, complete disappointment settles in, I allow the beds to go to seed, and I head to the grocery store, further convinced that my thumb is indeed as black as night.  Sometimes, Christmas can feel like the end of a disappointing gardening adventure. It’s the end of the year when all our goals are supposed to be wra

Over the last several months, I’ve had the opportunity to share many behind-the-scenes secrets with people who’ve come to openings, festivals, and other events. I get questions all the time about where I get my ideas, how I put my work together, and what comes first—the collage or the painting. And you know what? I’ve learned so much more about my why  from talking about my how.  So, I thought I’d revisit this topic and compile this year’s reflections into an article about my

Collage layout for the new piece. For the past several weeks, I’ve been working on a new painting. It has come together slowly—piece by...

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Exhibits and shows come together in a lot of ways and the story of how "Where Are You?" , a two-person show featuring my work and that of...

I ask God a lot of questions on the daily. But I’ve noticed recently that God often asks questions, not because He needs information or...

“An object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest unless an external, unbalanced force acts upon it.”   I’ve seen...

"Best Moment of the Day" 12 x 12, private collection We are currently in the middle of Lent …the 40 day period between Ash Wednesday and...

As Lent draws to a close and Easter Sunday approaches—the heart of the entire season—I’ve found myself reflecting on what these weeks...