A yearlong study in 2023 exploring both process and content of my current practice.  In February 2021 in the middle of the pandemic, my teaching career after 40 years ended. I found myself not only unmoored from the daily work that had structured and informed my creative practice for four decades but also in a state of creative uncertainty.  With additional time on my hands to reflect, I began to doubt the direction my work had taken over the years and found myself wanting a greater sense of clarity and purpose in my creative intentions. Over a long career I had accumulated many loves and sources of inspiration for the work, but I suddenly felt unsure whether these had been fully examined or simply accepted. Had they simply become what one might consider a habit, a place of easy comfort? the pandemic seems to have pulled the foundation of more than teaching out from under me. I felt a great desire to push my passions and challenge my assumptions about the work, the imagery I had become so comfortable with, the process, the methods and the materials I had grown so use to.

I decided to paint one painting or create one work of art every month for a year with as little expectation or preconception as possible. I wanted to find out what kind of work I would make, if i could make anything. I decided to adopt an attitude that insisted:  the work could be about anything or nothing, it could employ any materials, any methods, and the goal was to become a witness to the process.  But i quickly discovered i needed rules of engagement to create anything at all. So, i invented some; 1) one painting a month 2) a year of reflections through text and drawing 3) each monthly work would begin within a 30 x 30-inch framework 4) I would observe and record the evolution of each work through daily photo documentation 5) I would suspend judgement about beauty for as long as possible 6) I would not resist  distractions   that might come in the form of other works sketches or tools.

Architecturally inspired works developed from a combination of observation, invention and memory.

From my earliest days as an artist the figure has been a source of inspiration and interest. Although I don't think of myself as a figurative  artist, working with the figure  both through observation and invention  have influenced  my work compositionally and with respect to the language of form that proliferates through it. 

Informed largely from my work as an architect, this series of small scale constructions explore a variety of architectural, spatial and volumetric themes. These works are executed in mixed media with an emphasis on wood, paper, plaster and also as ceramic works using low fired clay methods.  Several works represented  here were commissioned pieces, including the two that were translated into bronze.

For the past thirty years my journal/sketchbooks have played an essential role in my work. They act as incubator and laboratory for nearly all of my projects, paintings, and constructions as well as a chronicle of my thoughts and ideas about the arts and their role in society. This selection of images representing the spectrum of my investigations..