Show Me the Way
"Show Me the Way" is a painting I’ve had in my head for a very long time. Surfing is...

This is an untitled piece I never liked that much, but several people have told me what they like about it - the subtle way the golds and greens are reflected across the river, the fine lines in the rocks reminiscent of Pitre, the talk of spring and mist and fog and newness.
Why it has escaped the purging bonfires, and why I keep it, is if you haven't noticed, many of my paintings are completed on New Years Day, year after year. This, I think, is the earliest of those, painted on New Years Day 1993. I'm not sure why I'm always painting on New Years Day but happy that I am.
"Show Me the Way" is a painting I’ve had in my head for a very long time. Surfing is...
Several years ago I was near poverty, struggling to fetch out a living in a southern Oregon town, li...
Something about this painting makes me happy, I hope it does you as well....
John Pitre was one of my earliest art influences. Before the internet, we already knew of the depers...