1967: I left home in Chicago and started school at Western Illinois University as a physics major. By the third week of my first semester my math class was already beyond my understanding. My new artist-friend and mentor Don Marshal advised me to give up physics and study art. He bought me some oil paints and made me promise, to: “Paint soulfully (with awe and reverence), and never have a gimmick.” We started painting together in the same studio - night and day, every day.
Every day I asked my ma, “How do you know when a painting is finished?” or
“How do you know if it is good?”
Cathedral 1973
House w Corral and Palms 1985
Swiss House w Pond
1986
A Steady Night Wind (Chinese House) 2006
snowchurch black 2007
whitesky 2009
