Europe:

This section contains work made from 2014 onward. I retired from teaching at the start of 2014. Free to travel, I structured trips in 2014, 2016 and 2018 to regions in Spain and France famous for Romanesque architecture: Castilla-Léon and Soria in Spain; Burgundy, Auvergne and La Poitou in France. But I didn’t only draw at Romanesque sites, I drew whatever caught my eye along the route; I also deliberately planned visits to cities famous for architecture from other periods: Burgos, Trujillo, Jaen, and Amiens particularly charmed me. My trip in 2018 included a week in Lisbon.

At home in my studio, making the artwork you see here, I gave myself permission to mix my European drawings freely, arranging them however they seemed to fit together, independent of the subject’s physical location.

Within a 100 miles from Home:

Starting in 2014, I also set out to draw historic architecture and artifacts that could be seen within a day’s drive from my house. I live twenty miles from the Idaho/Washington State border near the base of the Idaho Panhandle. On my trips I looked for the oldest buildings in small towns and visited tiny museums. Wood and brick are the dominant building materials here. Museums generally focus on 19^th century metal and wood tools; some present splendid leather Indian artifacts. Having drawn so much stone sculpture and architecture in Europe, I enjoyed responding to the shapes of things made with different materials.