There’s a moment in every artist’s practice where the ground shifts a little. Where you’ve earned enough mastery to know what you’re doing — and that’s exactly what gives you the courage to stop doing it.

That’s where I am right now.

It started in one of my color field workshops. I was teaching the technique, watching my students fall in love with it, and somewhere in the middle of that I felt something open up in my own work. I began experimenting with color field on my own canvases — and while I love what’s coming through, I didn’t want to stop there. I wanted to merge it with my painterly style. The expressive, gestural mark-making that has always been mine.

Pulling those two worlds together is a little scary, honestly. There’s a vulnerability in stepping out of what’s already working into what isn’t proven yet. But what’s coming out the other side is something new — and unmistakably mine.

The two paintings you’re looking at are the first untitled works in this new direction. Stained canvases meeting painterly gesture. A whole new conversation between technique and instinct.

I can’t wait to see where I take this. Stay tuned.

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May 30 — Perception & Interpretation: Still Life Painting Workshop

The last painting workshop of the season. With the right direction and mentorship, you’ll leave this workshop with something you never dreamed you could create. Choose the full 4-hour session to work on a larger canvas, or the half session for a more intimate format.

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Registration closes May 23.