Seasonal Salons
A living archive documenting how paintings discover their structure over time — through real-time observation and retrospective clarity.
What You’re Looking At
Each chapter records a decisive phase in the life of a painting — a moment when the artist’s perception shifted and the work changed direction.
What you’re seeing is not just the image changing, but the structure of the painting gradually clarifying.
A Seasonal Salon holds three layers of that process: the real-time studio moment, how the painting develops materially, and the understanding that only becomes visible later.
This Moment in the Studio
Real-time reflections recorded in the studio, set to footage of the work in progress.
A clear orientation to where the painting stands: what is structurally present in the work,
what is emotionally present for the artist,
what is being attempted,
and what remains unresolved.
Explore the Development
Before-and-after images showing the visual shift that occurred during the session — the overall change in the painting when viewed from a distance.
How composition moves through decisions in color, value, and edge.
And the in-between: the painting mid-revision.
Turning Point
A close detail of the moment where the painting turned — where something stayed stuck, moved closer to resolution, or finally worked.
Followed by integration written later, once the painting is complete and the recording can be heard again with distance.
What was happening in the moment becomes clearer in hindsight.
How to Move Through This
You can follow the chapters sequentially, or enter wherever your attention is drawn.
Each chapter stands on its own.
Together, they reveal how a painting builds itself: Through the ongoing exchange between action and intuition.
Current Salons
Horizon
40 X 60; oil, gold and silver leaf, mother of pearl, paper, abalone shell, on wood panel. How Horizon became "Grounded into the Infinite"
Ironwood
30 x 30 in; gold leaf, dyed silver leaf, oil paint on wood
next WIP coming soon
From Boulders to Saguaros
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