Desert Sage Republic

"Desert Sage Republic". 11 x 14 Oil, 2019

This is an image from my trip to Republic in 2019. Republic is a town in northeastern Washington State surrounded by desert, hills, mountains, lakes and rivers. The area is intersected by the Columbia River about 100 miles north of the Grand Coulee Dam. The Grand Coulee was a mythical name to me as a child--we'd go off in our green Chevy station wagon to camp in eastern Washington. I didn't know anything of the issues of the dams and the displacement of tribal lands and whole towns, of the destruction of salmon spawning in some 1100 miles of river and tributaries.
https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/grandcouleeimpactsonfish.


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Fremont River

"Fremont River", 6 x 9 In, Oil, 2021

This is one of my favorite painting spots--the Fremont River--in a beautiful canyon that cuts through the north south ridge of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.


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Blakely Harbor Rocks

"Blakely Harbor Rocks", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

I titled this painting "Blakely Harbor", which is on Bainbridge Island, but my memory is failing me about the specific place, as the view looks coastal. So I guess at least it is about rocks.


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Farm Sky Idaho

"Farmland Sky Idaho", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

The sky is big in the west.

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Habor Boats

"Harbor Boats", 6 x 8 In, Oil, 2021

Sometimes these sketches seem sort of random. Just a design or an experiment--something that strikes me as interesting in the moment. Harkens back to my "painting a day" period from years ago, although I no longer hold to that.

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Cabin at Sunset

"Cabin At Sunset", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

Desert cabin.

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