Gouache on paper, 45.5 inches x 30.6 inches, plus frame. private collection

gouache on paper. 7.25 x 9.5 inches, plus frame. private collection

gouache on paper, 11.75 x 15.5 inches, plus frame. private collection

mixed media. 8.75 x 8.75 inches, framed. private collection.

Gouache on paper. 3.5 x 30.5 inches, plus frame. private collection

Gouache on paper. 25 x 15 inches, plus frame. private collection.

33.75 x 29.5 inches, plus frame. private collection

gouache on paper. 4.5 x 6.5 inches, framed. private collection

Gouache on paper. 15 x 20 inches, plus frame. private collection

gouache on paper, 36 x 36 inches, plus frame. private collection

11 x 11 inches. gouache & watercolor on paper. private collection

gouache on paper. 4.5 x 6.5 inches plus frame. private collection

14.5 x 11 inches. gouache, micron pen & watercolor on paper. private collection

gouache on paper. 30.5 x 41.75 inches framed. private collection

This one is inspired by an article I came across which lists at length all the species that are affected by the border wall. Towards the end of the video they give the list:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-ecological-destruction-from-the-border-wall-in-american-scar

Blocked at the Border: Jaguar, Bighorn, Arroyo Toad, Least Tern, Flannel Bush, Least Bells, Light Footed Clapper, Loach Minnow, Masked Bobwhite Quail, Quino Checkerspot Butterfly, Mexican Gray Wolf, Mexican Long Nosed Bats, Ocelot, Canelo Hills Ladies’-Tresses, Northern Aplomado Falcon, Javelina, Salt Marsh Bird’s Beak, San Diego Fairy Shrimp & Otay Tarplant

gouache on paper, 31 x 45 inches plus frame. private collection

Gouache on paper. 5 x 5 inches, plus frame. private collection

We have two young great horned owls who occasionally gift us with their presence at night. We can hear them hooting outside. There are giant tall dead cottonwoods trees that provide the perfect branches for them to rest on, overseeing the land. The first night we heard them, they were signing together, the one beginning and the second overlapping just so that it was almost impossible to tell if it was one owl or two. Also in our landscape where we live, there’s flowering milkweed and tarantula hawk wasps which like to pollinate the flowers. They are one of the wildest insects to me because they’re known for having the most painful sting out of all the insects and for eating tarantulas.

Gouache on paper 35 3/4 x 36 1/4”

available at Hecho Gallery (Ceramic Sculpture by Wesley Anderegg at Hecho Gallery)

11.25 x 9 inches. gouache & watercolor on paper. private collection

18 x 24 inches. gouache on paper. 2023. private collection

18 x 24 inches. gouache on paper. 2023. private collection

33 x 56.50 in. gouache on paper. private collection

gouache on paper. 33 x 56.50 inches. private collection

The first piece to start of my series for the exhibition Abundance/Impermanence. It had a lot of juice and narrative in it to gear me up to start painting again. The flowers are Palmer’s Penstemon, which I see every year lining the roads at the intersection of highway 14 and I-25. Most of the other elements were inspired by imagery I found online… a woman from Unterfranken or Lower Franconia Germany… (a blog (folkcostume.blogspot.com) writes,) "In Ochsenfurt on dressy occasions, the hair is braided from 9 to 11 strands so that it forms a wide ribbon, the ends of which are then pinned to the top of the head. This is combined with a hairband across the front of the head [Samtband], and a comb and hairpins ornamenting the ends of the zoepfen where they are attached to the crown. This may be why the Haube has mostly been replaced by a kerchief in the Ochsenfurt area.” The house is a stone cottage, the people and trees are painted from a black & white photo of a similar composition… and the blue beetle bug is a car that was on the corner of my work place listed for sale… I thought about that car and how great it would be to have a fun, fashionable, vintage car like it. I grew up with a horse like the one in the painting, she was a buckskin and my parents would put me on the saddle since I was a small kid… I learned to ride horses at an early age and still feel a kinship towards riding.

gouache on paper 44.5 x 29 inches framed. private collection

gouache on paper, 6 x 4 inches. private collection

gouache on paper, 5 x 5 inches. private collection

gouache on paper. 5 x 7 inches. private collection

A visitor to my studio, who would come up to my window and stand up and hold still. The salsify is one of my favorite fluffy plants, it's like a giant magical dandelion. I remember seeing them at the Picacho peak trailhead and photographing them. The orange and yellow colors are because these are two joyful things in my life, that are both fluffy and peppy. Pet his belly and look at those tiny hands and feets!

Mixed media on paper 18” x 26”. private collection

gouache on paper. 8 x 5.5 inches

available at Hecho Gallery

including coyote, bobcats, great horned owl, mouse, desert hare, bull snake, pinon, juniper, cottonwood, yucca, cholla, datura & snakeweed gouache on paper 20 x 48 inches. private collection

Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together and can even be more successful hunting prairie dogs and ground-squirrels when they work in tandem. Coyotes chase prey on the surface, while badgers dig them up. Only one may end up with a meal, but overall, the collaboration benefits both hunters. This painting also features flowering mullein. Gouache on paper. 44” x 30”. private collection

gouache on paper, 7.5 x 5.5 inches. private collection

12 x 8.75 inches, gouache on paper. private collection

gouache on paper framed 30” x 30”. private collection

A coyote, a fox and a bat all hunt under a full moon. This is about the magnificent night… being invited but the bright moon, keeping us company and shining enough light over the landscape while we sit in the dark, trusting the darkness and being open to its joys, adventures, excursions and jaunts.

Katsura blue gouache on paper. 6 x 4 1/4”. private collection

As a kid I would go fishing with my dad. It was a special activity we’d do together. This paintings commemorates that time.

Gouache on paper 5 1/2 x 4”. private collection

This painting is inspired by the coyotes that emerge and make ruckus at night. It’s dedicated to the animals that are a part of a whole world that goes on and the stories that unfold while we’re sleeping. We often hear the coyotes outside while we’re sleeping upstairs with the door open.

Mixed media on paper 13 7/8 x 10 1/4 “. private collection

This painting is inspired by all the sharp, spiky, punk rock and tenacious critters and plants of the desert… and the time I once ended up walking from the river through Diablo canyon in the pitch black night. Luckily no cougars were heard or seen, but I did see the millipedes in the canyon during the day. I love how their legs look like a brush as they swish over the desert.

Gouache on paper 53 x 36”. private collection

crayon & pastel on paper 17 x 13.5 inches. private collection

This is an ode to one of the most beloved animals in the desert, the roadrunner. I made a card with a roadrunner and heart surrounded by flowers which is the most popular thing I’ve made. I was thinking about everyones love for the roadrunner and the globe mallow as I painted this. There’s the highway in the distance and a little adobe in the background that is from an old photograph. I love looking up photos of roadrunners hunting, especially seeing them go after rattlesnakes, I grew up almost taking them for granted, and they’re one of the most fascinating critters around.

Gouache on paper 15 x 9 inches. private collection

Krascheninnikovia is another name for the plant winter fat… its my favorite because of its fluffiness. The grasshopper mouse is another one of my favorites for their cuteness and ruthlessness. They’ll eat scorpions and make sharp cries that look like they’re howling at the moon. The ant was put in the painting because my partner Jordan said, “put an ant there, that’d be cute.”

Mixed media on paper 10 3/4 x 13 7/8”. private collection

Ravens are some of the smartest, most vocal and curious critters. They’re similar to coyotes in the sense of how they rule the neighborhood. This painting is in celebration of these mischievous ravens, the abundance of sunflowers lining the highways and roads and the magical super bloom of sleepy orange butterflies I came across at Bosque del Apache one Fall season. There were so many that they were crossing the roads, sleepily hovering over the ground bobbing up and down as they flew, thousands and thousands of butterflies… If you want an example of how delightful crows are, look up the video of a crow using a a plastic lid to slide down a roof covered snow, over and over again.

Gouache on paper 45” x 44”. private collection

Every year, throughout the year if I can make it happen, I love going to Bosque del Apache. It’s my favorite place and at any point in the year theres an abundance of wildlife and natural beauty. There’s screw been mesquites there, and cranes and all sorts of birds. I was surprised to find we also have herons here. They’re so stoic, graceful and elegant.

Gouache on paper 11 x 15 inches

available at Hecho Gallery

We have so many sweet bunnies around our house, they hang out outside and we watch them, usually theres one right outside my car door when I leave for work in the morning and the cutie doesn’t seem to be afraid when I come near.

This idea was my partner Jordan’s, he said to paint a bunch of bunnies around the rabbitbrush and one would be jumping in the bush. Couldn’t resist a cute fluffy bun!

Gouache on paper 22 x 22 inches. private collection

A friend once was telling me about a coachwhip, also known as a red racer and that they’re pink… I had to look it up and found several images of bubblegum pink coachwhips and couldn’t believe that a bubblegum pink snake existed! Later in the year I saw one, less pink though, on our porch attempting to get to the birds nest on top of the beams, sadly for the snake, but happily for the birds, the snake didn’t succeed. I was showing this painting to our friend, neighbor and landlord, and one of my favorite painters Jerry West and he noted I might have been a bit generous with the pink but that’s no doubt a red racer.

Mixed media on paper 17” x 13”

available at Hecho Gallery

gouache on paper 20 x 48 inches framed. private collection

mixed media on paper 16.5 x 12 inches. private collection

including coyote, bobcat, salamander, hummingbird, bushtits, raccoon, cota, evening primrose, claret cup cactus, blue flax, swallowtail, coopers hawk, garter snake, cottonwood, cattail, wolf spider, pine siskins, magpie, flicker & acorn woodpecker

gouache on paper 36 x 36 inches framed. private collection

gouache on paper 28 x 22 inches framed. private collection

gouache and crayons on paper 47 x 36 inches framed

available via Hecho Gallery

gouache on paper 80 x 37 inches. private collection

As part of my senior thesis for the Maryland Institute College of Art, Interdisciplinary Sculpture department, BFA ‘15

pastel, gouache, acrylic, crayon & colored pencil on backdrop paper 76 x 84 inches. private collection

gouache on wood panel 12 x 16 inches. private collection

private collection

Pastel & Crayon. private collection

mixed media on paper 17 x 14 inches. private collection

pastel on paper 17 x 14 inches. private collection

mixed media on paper 7 x 14 inches. private collection

Aplomado Falcon, Canada Lynx, Great Basin Silverspot Butterfly, Least Tern, Mexican Wolf, Pecos Mariposa, Pecos Sunflower, Piping Plover and Rio Grande Silvery Minnow

gouache on paper 36 x 46 inches. private collection

private collection

Gouache on paper 36” x 55”

available at Hecho Gallery

gouache on paper. private collection

Graphite. 22 x 30. 2014

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15 x 20. gouache on paper

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