Parley Lake Vineyard, 12 x 20  oil on panel.
Painted on location in Waconia, Minnesota during an Outdoor Painters of Minnesota paintout.

Fairview and County Road A, 12 x 20  oil on panel.
Painted on location in Door County, Wisconsin.

Sheep Farm, 7 x 11, oil on panel.
Painted on location near Carver, Minnesota

Shadows and Light on the North Shore, 12 x 16, oil on panel
Painted on location near the Manitou River on the north shore of Lake Superior. SOLD

Cypress and Ruins, Fiesoli, 12 x 16, oil on panel
Painted on location near Florence, Italy. 2008

Early Spring Fields, 8 x 10, oil on panel
Painted on location near Watertown, Wisconsin.

Grosse Point Beach, 16 x 20 oil on panel. Painted on location in Evanston, Illinois during their plein air event, 2022. Winner of the Best in Show and Festival Choice awards. SOLD

Dempster Sailing Beach, 16 x 20 oil on panel. Painted on location in Evanston, Illinois during their plein air event 2022.

Sun and Wind at the Beach, 16 x 20 oil on panel. Painted on location in Evanston, Illinois during their plein air event 2022.

Fields Off Clitherall Road, Otter Tail County, 12 x 20 oil on panel. Painted on location, Minnesota, during the 2021 Prairie Lakes Plein Air event. SOLD

On the Hillside
18 x 24, oil on panel
Painted on location in Saint Donatus, Iowa.

Trees and Clouds, Loon Lake, 30 x 30, oil on canvas.

Outbuildings at the Farm
12 x 16 oil on panel

Painted on location near Saint Donatus, Iowa..

Spring Vista, 12 x 20 oil on panel. Painted on location near Baldwin, Wisconsin.

Cornfield Near Tomah, 12 x 16” oil on panel.
Painted on location while driving (getting lost) across Wisconsin.

Isle of Sky, Scotland, 6 x 8 oil on panel. 2020.
This was painted from photo reference shot on a trip in the early ‘90s. No particular reason for this, other than to experiment with a warmer palette…. and a simply desire to visit another country for a while.

Lock and Dam #1 at Ford Parkway, Minneapolis, 16 x 20 oil on panel. 2008.

Haybale Outstanding in It’s Field
12 x 20 oil on panel

I’m sorry I titled this painting with that old chestnut. I’ve always felt compelled to do it and today seemed like the right day.

Artist’s Point, Grand Marais
12 x 20 oil on panel

Country Yard
12 x 20 oil on panel
Painted on location in Danbury, Wisconsin. Freshly mowed.

Red Barn Painting
12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted on location in Carver, Minnesota.

Rolling Fields
12 x 20 oil on panel
Painted on location in San Francisco County, Minnesota.

Sheep Farm
7 x 11 oil on panel
Painted on location in San Francisco County, Minnesota.

T-Bird and the Old Jail, 12 x 16 oil on panel
Set on the side of a mountain, the old mining town of Jerome, Arizona provides a 20 mile view across the valley. On this cloudy, rainy day I was scouting for a painting and was captivated
by the lovely blue horizon. Then this red car and yellow ochre building facade jumped in front of it. SOLD

San Antonio Mountain Hills, Wine Country
12 x 20 oil on panel
Painted on location at the Sonoma plein air event 2018.

Vineyard Motif
12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted on location at the Antonio Mountain Vineyards during the Sonoma plein air event 2018. They make a heckuva Chardonnay.

Vineyard Medley
20 x 12 oil on panel

Painted on location during the Sonoma plein air event 2018.

Grapes!
8 x 10 oil on panel
Okay, not exactly an open space, but the vineyard sure has a lot of sky above it. Painted on location at the Sonoma plein air event 2018.
SOLD

Point Reyes Coast, California
24 x 18 oil on panel
Painted on location at the Sonoma plein air event 2018.

Sunflowers
12 x 16 oil on panel
This is a slightly larger piece created in the studio from a smaller plein air painting done on location up near Grand Marais.

Spring Fields, 17 x 31 oil on panel

North Shore Sunset, 8 x 14, oil on panel
SOLD

Crescent Bay Morning, 20 x 16 oil on panel
The surf, waves, and changing sands create beautiful shapes and colors.

Roadside Fishmonger, 12 x 16 oil on panel
This fellow was selling his fresh caught lake trout and walleye in Danbury, Wisconsin last summer. He said that he’s made a living selling fish ever since he got back from Vietnam.

Rocky Mountain Air, 12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted midday, looking into the box canyon that holds the town of Telluride, Colorado.

Vista from San Miniato, Florence, 11 x 14 oil on panel

Forest Lake, Viewed from the Rock Cut, Rocky Mountain National Park, 12 x 16  oil on panel

Sunbeams on 38th Street, 24 x 24, oil on panel

Colorado Mountain Winter, 10.5 x 16 oil on panel

Winter Morning at Duluth Harbor, 18 x 24 oil on canvasboard
Duluth's harbor industries lend a distinctive, rusty romanticism to the landscape.

Sailboats at Sunset, 48 x 60 oil on linen

Francis, Utah, 12 x 20  oil on panel
This was painted on a June morning just east of Park City.

Bird of Paradise, 10 x 8 oil on panel
Not sure if this is a floral painting with a landscape in the background or a landscape with a flower in the foreground. Do you care? Me neither.

Midday Over the Island, 8 x 10 oil on panel

Fall Colors Up North, 7 x 11, oil on panel

Rose Lake, 16 x 20 oil on panel
Painted during a Grand Marais Art Colony winter plein air event. A dozen or so artists gathered at Camp Menogyn on Bearskin Lake for a week of outdoor painting and camaraderie. On this gray day a few of us hiked to this overlook. What a shape the snowcovered lake made! 

Morning on Sneffles Range, 7 x 24 oil on panel

Gettysburg: View from Little Round Top, 12 x 20 oil on panel
Painted just before a rain at the Hallowed Ground in Pennsylvania.
I'm looking north up the fishhook line the Union troops formed toward the end of the 3-day battle. This pastoral view shows some of the fields where so many lost their lives. Just beyond the big mass of trees, center right, is where the 1st Minnesota performed so heroically. Quite a story. Look it up. 

Shetlands, Spring, 8 x 10 oil on panel
These furry critters are cute, but the bright yellow hay on the rich, poopy mud was truly beautiful.

Setting Sun at the Mine, 11 x 17 oil on panel
This contraption used to take miners down into a shaft said to be deeper than the Empire State Building is tall. After a morning of painting nearby in the old mining town of Jerome, Arizona, I looked forward to the afternoon, when the mountain would cast its shadow across the valley and the colors of the landscape would get richer and deeper. In order to paint the viewpoint I wanted, where the tower would intersect the horizon, I needed to stand on a slope of loose, broken rock. By the time I finished, it was dark and freezing. I accidentally kicked over my open knapsack, sending it tumbling down the slope, scattering stuff everywhere. Brushes, paint tubes, cell phone, keys. I spent the next half hour crawling up and down the rubble, praying the rental car keys would find my hands. They did.

Tipi at Cottonwood, 8 x 10 oil on panel
I love when the sun comes out late on a rainy day and deep blue clouds hang on to the horizon. They make a gorgeous backdrop for the sunlit ground.

Minnesota Mountain, Fall, 12 x 20 oil on panel
Painted in Cook County, Minnesota in late September when the maples were peaking. The wire fence interrupts the splendor of the colors on the mountain, but that's the way life goes sometimes.

Wildflower Pasture, 12 x 20, oil on panel

Harvest Gold, 12 x 16 oil on panel

New Soybeans, 18 x 24 oil on canvas

Farmhouse, 20 x 24 oil on canvas

Feet to the Fire, 8 x 10 oil on panel
When you canoe and portage in the wilderness, your feet get wet. This part of the day feels soooo gooood.

Haybales in the Sun, 8 x 10 oil on panel

Cold Springs Prairie
12 x 20 oil on panel

Painted on location at the famous spring near Fort Snelling in Minneapolis. I was part of a group of painters participating in the annual plein air event with Groveland Gallery. SOLD

Morning Over Jolly Ann Lake, Otter Tail County,
12 x 20 oil on panel. Painted on location, Minnesota, during the 2021 Prairie Lakes Plein Air event. SOLD

Early Summer Meadow
12 x 16 oil on panel. Painted on location near Baldwin, Wisconsin. SOLD

Breezy Sunflowers, 10 x 8 oil on panel
Each has its own personality.
SOLD

Seagull Lake Sunset, 18 x 24 oil on panel.
This view is from our campsite at the End of Trail federal campsite on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe and Wilderness Area, 2020. SOLD

Cornfield and Barn, 12 x 16 oil on panel
The summer was advancing and, despite being a midwestern painter, I hadn't painted corn yet, let alone a barn. Subject aside, this is an exploration (art speak alert) of the tension between flatness, modeling, and atmospheric perspective.
SOLD

Dressage Saddles, 12 x 16 oil on panel SOLD

The Angle, Gettysburg, 12 x 20 oil on panel
Painted on location at the Hallowed Ground in Pennsylvania.
This tree is fairly recent growth, but 146 years ago, on a hot July afternoon, this stone wall is about as far as old Bobby Lee's boys got. The Confederates crossed this mile-long field from the tree line on Seminary Ridge. As I looked across, I tried to imagine what was in their minds as they stepped into the open, knowing it was unlikely they would survive the hour.

New Market Haybales, 12 x 16  oil on panel
SOLD

White Barn, 16 x 20”  oil on panel
Painted in Burnett County, Wisconsin just after the holidays.
SOLD

Early Evening from Lafayette Point, 12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted on the shore of Lake Superior, July, 2017.

Autumn Haybales, 12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted near Victoria, Minnesota. In this country field in midafternoon, the colors were fairly muted. This suited me just fine. I was tired of chasing brightly colored maples around the city.
SOLD

Karaoke at the Crossroads
Painted near Farmington, Minnesota in late October.
SOLD

Cow Pasture, Utah, 11 x 14 oil on panel
SOLD

Old Silver Mine, Telluride, 12 x 16 oil on panel
The ride up and down the road that leads to this location made me cry for my mama.
SOLD

The Path to the Barn, 16 x 20 oil on canvas
SOLD

Rustic Barn Painting, 7 x 11 oil on panel
Being known as a painter of suburb-scapes and urban construction, it may seem as though I don’t like to paint rustic buildings, but barns like this embody so much history — the weathered wood, the encroaching grasses, the tilting creep toward collapse — painting scenes like this is in the DNA of every landscape painter. 

Campfire, 12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted with pals off the Gunflint Trail near the Loon Lake. Chosen “Best Nocturne” at Grand Marais Plein Air 2015.
SOLD

Country Mailbox, 8 x 10 oil on panel
The midday summer sun tends to bleach out everything it touches, but if there's a spot of color to be found, I'll paint it.
SOLD

Grand Old Birds, Sonoma, 8 x 10  oil on panel

View from Pincushion, 7 x 11 oil on panel
SOLD

Sonoma Dune Buggy, 12 x 16 oil on panel

Cattails on Cedar Lake, 24 x 30 oil on canvas

Misty Morning in Wine Country
12 x 16 oil on panel
Painted on location at the Sonoma plein air event 2018.