PAINTINGS

Every painting here is an original oil painting inspired by the places where I feel most at home. Rooted in a love of the Rocky Mountains and the natural world, each work of art is a teacher from whom I’ve learned invaluable lessons. Humans are a part of that nature. The more you know a rock, the more you know yourself. Please enjoy.

ALL THE WAY UP

HAPPY PLACE collection
Oil paint on canvas
30 x 50 cm

Available for purchase for $400

The further up you go, the further out you can see.

NEXT STOP: HEAVEN

HAPPY PLACE collection
Oil paint on canvas board
24 x 30 cm

Available for purchase for €175

The train dropped us at an abandoned mining outpost in the middle of the Uncompahgre Wilderness. Everything smelled crisper, tasted sharper, appeared a little more vivid out there. The senses were heightened–an animal in an animal environment. Everything is more beautiful when you are a little more aware.

A PERFECT NIGHT

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on canvas board
30 x 40 cm

Available for purchase for $150

A perfect night requires only one thing: recognition.

UNCOMPAHGRE PEAK

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
50 x 70 cm

Available for purchase for $700

The fields began crawling. Grass became rocks, became mountains that touched the sky. The wind breathed into water and the water jumped into the reeds. I saw it all and it saw me.

TIPPY TOP
ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
10 x 10 cm

Not For Sale

ALMOST THERE

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
30 x 40 cm

Available for purchase for $250

CALIFORNIA DAY DREAMS

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
30 x 40 cm

Available for purchase for $150

MAGIC ON SCHOOLSTRAAT

JAPANUARY collection
Oil on canvas board
40 x 60 cm

Available for purchase for $150

MT. YOTEI

JAPANUARY collection
Oil on canvas board
24 x 30 cm

Available for purchase for $150 –Sold

THE WAY IT USED TO FEEL

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
40 x 50 cm

Available for purchase for $550 – Sold

My life felt like a canyon.
Minutes wore away the rock like wind and water
and the further I went, the deeper the canyon grew.
Light struggled to reach me at a certain point and a choice was forced upon me.
Trudge on, deeper still, and hope for a clearing ahead.
Or, climb the walls. Find the light.
An entire lifetime can pass in this conundrum.
What you never know, until you try, is that the canyon is you.
It doesn’t want to lead you to darkness.
It wants to help you climb out.
Witnessing your efforts, the canyon encourages the tree to grow along the rock wall with footing enough to reach the next ledge.
Even the birds soaring above the plateau call for you to follow them.
“It’s all worms,” they sing.
It’s all you.
You can do this.

THE WAY I REMEMBER IT

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
70 x 60 cm

Available for purchase for $1500

Squint your eyes just right and watch the mountains move.
They squirm and ooze and shift and even disappear.
“All is worms,” you say.
Then it hits you, why you placed the mountains there in the first place.
It had to be this way, and it was always perfect.
You just needed to stop squinting to see it all.

REACH FOR THE LIGHT

Oil on linen
30 x 70 cm

Available for purchase for $600 – Sold

THE WAY IT IS

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
60 x 70 cm

Not for sale

If all is worms,
So, too, is the magic you’ve felt in your life.
Keep an open mind,
keep searching for magic.
Soon, you’ll know the magic in you.

THE WAY IT BEGAN

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on canvas board
18 x 24 cm

Available for purchase for €150

I saw the fabric of the universe in the cross section of an orange.
Little worms writhing and wriggling.
“Smash it on my face,” said my friend.
I smiled and squished my half into his nose like a human juicer.
“Now, me,” I said.
Euphoria.
Orange worms running down my chin.
Again and again we squished them until the worms spilled onto the ground.
That’s when they started crawling. They changed color too, and seemingly their form.
Soon, they had become the leaves on the ground and the bark on the trees. Even the stars that hid behind the wispy clouds took to slithering.

“All is worms,” my friend said to me, his orange skin writhing and wormlike.

“All is worms,” I repeated, and each time, and even still, euphoria.

THE WAY

ALL IS WORMS collection
Oil on linen
30 x 60 cm

Available for purchase for $450

The way is the same for everyone.
There is only one way, just as there is only one true story;
The story we tell ourselves.
A tale of fear and of conquest.
A tale that seeks only one truth.
“Why am I here?”
But in the way, we find the story.
And in the story, we find our way,

AUTUMN IN TORONTO

Oil on linen
30 x 40 cm

Available for purchase for €300 – Sold

THE PADDLER

Oil on canvas board
18 x 24 cm

Available for purchase for €150 – Sold

THE WAY IT COULD BE

ALL IS WORMS Collection
Oil on linen
40 x 50 cm

Available for purchase for €350

You don’t have to know that you are a sunrise to enjoy its beauty.
But can you imagine?
The whole world waking from your shining light?
When the world feels solid, and you become immovable,
Force yourself up to see a sunrise.
Its glory arrives each new day.
It beckons to you,
“This is the way it could be.”