SHOP ORIGINALS
REFLECTIONS
A Collection of Mid-Summer Lakeside Paintings
A PLACE TO GATHER & (RE)CONNECT
The Northwoods Lakeshore
These paintings depict the Minnesota Northwoods lakeshore, abundant in its power to gather and collect. For 100 years, my family has convened at cabins in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (and 10,000 cousins); my daughter is the sixth generation to spend her summers at our family cabin, sharing stories and building on a lakeside heritage. We visit aunts, uncles and cousins, spread across the Boundary Waters, traveling by boat from cabin to cabin and memory to memory, wrapped in rain and comfort, the lakeshore ecotone as the gathering point. The water’s edge is the great connector, a balm to the tension and profound polarization of today’s world. It’s a tangible, analog place of kinship, one of respite from our fast-paced, digital ecosystem; the parting of the dense forest is a place to get your bearings, study the sky and allow your eyes to travel along the horizon to meet folks from years past. Like the local flora and fauna, we gather to greet each other and the vista at the water’s edge.
Join me in your passion for lake life by becoming a collector.
FOUR SEASONS OF ASPENS
Original Aspen Paintings
WHY ASPENS?
Easy: If you love Colorado, you love aspens.
I'm not the first artist with aspens as my muse, and I won't be the last. There's the symbolism of this incredible organism, united by a single root system and one of the first species to come back after a wildfire. Walking through a glittering gold fall aspen forest or skiing through a silent snowy one is a quintessential Colorado experience. And then there is the opportunity for artistic expression: aspens offer a fascinating intersection of shape and color: round + white. The reflected colors across all the tree trunks result in intricate, architectural mosaics only Mother Nature could dream up. I painted my first aspen tree trunk as a teenager in the backyard of my childhood home in Steamboat Springs and have gone on to consistently study five or so specific aspen groves tucked in the mountains between Steamboat and Denver. Over the past 20 years, I return seasonally to these groves, observing how the forests have grown, evolved, or died, adding photos to a collection that now numbers in the thousands.
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