Transitions

March 2026

The show “Seasons” was very much about transitions and changes. Just as the year cycles through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, we too move through our own seasons of love, loss, grief, and joy. As is each day, full of possibilities. There are lessons to learn and opportunities to try new things.

This grid of images runs through various bodies of work I’ve made since moving to Albuquerque in 2019. Before arrival, I was painting mountains which have continued to evolve. Viewing this selection of twelve artworks I see ebbs and flows throughout the works. There are movements of openings and closings, directional shifts in the compositions, isolation, and multiplying. Many of these images are the “first” in a series.

The themes I focus on are time, exploration, the natural world, and geology. Mountains, to me, are a symbol of change. They themselves are constantly growing and shifting.

Beginning at the top, the transparent mountains overlap with lines crisscrossing the watercolor paper. Then the paintings start to shift in late 2022 with the Places of Flux series. The media moves from watercolors to acrylic paint. The paint is applied broadly and colors melt together. After my father passed, I started the Dark Night series, then slowly worked back to Places of Flux.

Other series branched out from Places of Flux. The colorful base, or background, continued in series that I refer to as Talisman, Canyon Views, Up and Over, Crystal Ball, and Mountain Belts. These series all include a silhouette (or masking) of a mountain, circle, implied sky, or organic shape.

As 2026 begins, I am very much still “in” a few of these series. I am aware and understand that there will be more transitions to paint through in my life. I will move, seasons will change, and life experiences will be lived. Every day is full of possibilities.