The Journal
Notes from the Studio
Short stories about art, artists, collecting and the everyday moments they illuminate, from an oil painter with a background in art history and museums.
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The Art of Collecting What You Love
There's a myth that collecting art is something other people do — people with money, educated in art, with a wall of credentials and a dealer on speed dial. I...
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First looks at new paintings, early access to originals, and notes from my studio.
Art History & Museums
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Art Stories: Van Gogh's Sunflowers
This summer my daughter and I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see two of Van...
One Flower, Many Meanings: The Lily Across Art History
Few flowers have been asked to carry as much as the lily. Across five thousand years it has...
How Museums Shaped the Way I See and Paint
Some of the most formative classes of my graduate studies didn’t take place in traditional classrooms. They happened...
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Nos. 78 & 79: Two Small Magnolias
Red seeds in October, a subject I only stopped working on for a while, and two small paintings...
No. 77: Peaches
The fruit of immortality, a Renaissance symbol for truth, and a fuzz that won’t take a highlight.
No. 76: For Cleopatra
A banquet floor of roses, a goddess’s flower, and a salmon pink that isn’t anywhere in the painting.
