Fairly recent...a finished painting.

A diptych for a client's bedroom. A lover of bright clear color, this painting's color palette came from her window treatments and bed covering...both in fuchsias and oranges.

Fun video

Watch this great video from my friend Kris Crews featuring other friends, Jeremy Gregory= artwork and Tallest Tree= music. They are all so talented!

Children's playroom

Last week I finished a colorful mural for a playroom. My client had specific guidelines for me including bright color, fairies, toadstool, dragonflies, and flowers. Spent 24 hours on this project.

January 22nd Check Please show!

Check Please

with

Battersea

&

Apricot & the Beginners

Flyer created by Jesse Quitslund!

Check Please show!

This Friday, September 24th, come on out to the New Frontier. We will be joined by 

SEAN ALEXANDER!, TALLEST TREE!, and HUMBLE CUB!

$5

9pm

The New Frontier Lounge

301 E. 25th Street
Tacoma, WA 98421
(253) 572-4020

West Seattle pics!

A great night in West Seattle. Thank you ArtsWest, especially Nichole DeMent, and thanks to all that came out...







Me with the beautiful Erika Eckert, Carrie Barker and Teriscovkya Smith (all the way from NYC!!)!









Abe Beeson and Drew Schot buddying.










Ms. Janice Sigurdson doing her James Brown dance for Teriscovkya Smith and Julia Cummings...AMAZING!!!








Some gallery goers...
Loved seeing Kristi Nelson and her gang, here with my gorgeous sis,
Carrie Barker

AND a total surprise Aaron Cayko! So glad he came, here with myself,
Teriscovkya Smith, and Erika Eckert

Artswest opening tonight!

Just a reminder ( http://www.artswest.org/?q=node/158).

Hope to see you!

Reception: Aug. 12, 6-7:30pm

Where does creativity come from? What gets artists started on an idea? ArtsWest Gallery explores that enigmatic creative spark with artists Martha Brouwer, Dr. Mark Morgan, Mindy Barker, and Anita West in the exhibition Inexplicable Allusions running July 27 through August 21. The four artists featured in this exhibition lend answers to these questions by letting go of all preconceptions to create clever, quirky, sometimes surreal, but always delightful imagery.

Photographer and digital wizard Dr. Mark Morgan collects all the moments of his life to build his surreal digital montages. Morgan draws on inspiration ranging from a stray remark from a stranger on the street to a particularly moving song lyric. He can spend months at a time on a single image to build these wonderful, conceptual artworks. Morgan’s digitally collaged pieces include his photographs, watercolors, and graphic textures for layered ideas and images.

Mindy Barker draws outside the lines in her series “Mixed-Up Media.” Beginning from a photograph, Barker creates unique worlds of allusions using ink and acrylic paint. For example, a simple snapshot of a dog transforms into a colorful roller-skating worm with a prehensile tail and the words “SLURP,” “BLINK” and “YES” playfully intertwined within the piece. Barker studied art at Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Copenhagen.

Alive with creative spark, Anita West is an artist as well as an educator for an all-girls school in Kuwait. Reminiscent of Seurat’s Pointillism, West’s images of wobbly kneed camels, cats, and goats contain intricate designs from Persian culture. Her contrast of black ink on white paper suggests the stark desert landscape which can also allude to the cultural restraints throughout the region. Her art ultimately represents a wonderful flight of her imagination.

Martha Brouwer is a multi-award winning artist holding a Master’s degree from Harvard University. Utilizing intricate surface texture and technique, Brouwer’s inspiring works convey a delicate and nurturing display of human life intertwined with the animal world. Her imagery celebrates the interconnectedness of all life and its’ interdependent mysteries.

Please join the artists for an opening reception during the West Seattle Art Walk on Thursday, August 12 from 6-7:30pm.