Iron stained, homey, homely

From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

Well lived-in, well used

From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

Fragile and organic?
That would be those it protects.

From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

After the Initial impulse,
All we can do is watch

From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

As the waves of consequence expand and disperse

From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

I was thinking of an energy
Massive but contained
Energy unlocked
Like a tricky puzzle
Wrangled
Not fully tamed but not completely unleashed

There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.


From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.


From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.


From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.


From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.


From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

A storm approaches,

From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

Foreboding shadows lengthen, stretching that line

From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

A storm approaches,
Foreboding shadows lengthen, stretching that line
The one between needed precipitation and destruction
However, the alternative is dust.

From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.

Yup, its pretty much blown away.

The Island/Westwind pairing
speaks of a prevailing wind;
and not necessarily meaning
an air movement
in a specific direction.

This landscape speaks,
not of a place but a time;
of global uncertainty,
questioning previously unshakeable ground
that we once thought we stood upon,
when we stood upon the earth.

Remember that day, the one down at the river?
The sky was everywhere sunshine,
the landscape was immensely wide open,
and the river was Huge.
The afternoon went on forever,
and yet took no time at all.

The vivid colours of childhood
meet vague but ever-present
Calgary colours of Buckskin and Blue.
Scale conforms to the priority of memory
rather than the geometry of Euclid.

Clearly remembered experience
meets vaguely remembered fact.
Solitary and completely engrossing
this small huge world that I survey

One Warm Line
thin,
distinct,
a single warm trace of human activity


At this time of year
frigid brittle asphalt
is a welcome sign.
If you can see the yellow line,
you're probably going to make it
to your distant warm, safe destination.
If not...


Here,
between the flatlands and the mountains
a unique Albertan identity,
possibly even pride.
Its basis,simply our existence in this place.

One Warm Line is rooted in the barely-realized, sublime landscapes of the mid-19th century.

Beneath the Long Grass
The mass and the meaning of the land
in a material laden artifact.
Accumulated interwoven layers
secured to the cherry panel with
encaustic medium and oil paint.

A mindset of a realist in
a world filled with energies,
both physical and contemplative.

Where human and natural forces meet
there shall be challenge and synergy
all planted firmly together
in the enduring prairie landscape,

Impression Sunrise - how little alteration of a 2x12 piece of lumber does it take for me to read it? A pinch of cerulean pigment in beeswax and one white line. How quickly it impresses landscape into my consciousness

Burlap in encaustic, oil paint, lumber stamp exposure, painted encaustic texture on found lumber

12x11inches

From art school artist statement.....
I hide things in plain sight. -
My goal, if anything is to create a scenario
where something does seem to have been made
with a specific purpose;
something that seems like it is all spelled out.

But somewhere within the work I attempt to place
a softly spoken something-else,
a murmured voice from the back of the room,
to raise the suspicion that there may be
an intent here that is not immediately identifiable.

An unexpected depth;
an unexpected connection;
that is something I can say that I am excited about.

the writing is somewhere
within the writing
on the wall

Moored
Organic oil
binding, seeping,
anchoring itself
through the crisp granular structure
of the wall plaster.

Contemplating energy and environment

Layers, transparencies, and a depth of materials.
Encaustic waxes combine with transparent oil paints.
An underlying support of canvas, burlap, and linen interwoven through the work.
Gradually layers move on and off the surface,

In search of a connection between
the way that I sense, and
the way that I come to understand
the natural energies at play in our environments.

Abstracted use of material in layers.
Active grounds interwoven between
surface and substrate.
Centered on a suggestion of landscape or environment

A codependent interchange of energy
between material layers and surface imagery.