Glamis Dunes
There’s something about the dry air and raw emptiness of the desert that I’ve always lov...

The funny thing about this painting is this was the visualization I had of the first house I owned, a nearly dilapidated post-war house in Grants Pass, Oregon. A mean oak tree had buckled the driveway, lifing it three feet from the ground, and threatened the converted garage foundation, there was nothing but a three step stoop, by the front door, and the door was actually a delaminated mahogany interior door that was thin as paper.
Two years later it looked almost exactly like this, without the driveway slab but with a square step, rail, and porch railing, every brick carefully laid by my own hand.
There’s something about the dry air and raw emptiness of the desert that I’ve always lov...
Another glorious view from my back door of the setting sun spiked with palm trees against the bright...
John Pitre was one of my earliest art influences. Before the internet, we already knew of the depers...
It Begins With Us is part of a series that began with one of my wife’s daily walks in which sh...