If you’ve visited my studio before, you may remember my landscape paintings—places encountered on the road or close to home, explored through color, light and texture.

This year, I have something new to share.

If you’ve visited my studio before, you may remember my landscape paintings—places encountered on the road or close to home, explored through color, light and texture. You’ll still find those landscapes when you visit this year, alongside a new direction I’m excited to share.

My ongoing Morning Practice drawings have been changing the way I see—and the way I paint. Working with a limited range of grays, I study shapes, lines and the relationships between light and dark. Those discoveries are now finding their way into larger, more abstract paintings.

Observation 1: The Sierras is the first painting in my new Observation series. It builds on what I learned through drawing, giving me room to explore the structure of a place and what I remember of it.

Landscape continues to be central to my work. Sometimes I explore it directly through plein air and studio paintings; sometimes a drawing leads me toward abstraction. During the tour, you’ll be able to see these approaches together—the landscapes, the drawings and the new Observation paintings—and discover the connections between them.

Returning to an artist’s studio is a chance to see how the work is developing. If you’ve visited before, I’d love to welcome you back and show you what I’ve been exploring. And if this is your first visit, there’s plenty to discover.