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I personally deliver or ship purchased prints. All work is non-digital. 

events 2025

cafe shows

summer Fairs

Cafe Javasti - Wed​gwood
8617 35th Ave NE
Seattle
April 16 - May 31
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 Macrina Bakery & Cafe 
​2408 1st Ave
Seattle
May 2 - July 31

Wedgwood Art Festival
​July 12 - 13
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Art in the Garden
Ballard P-Patch
​August 2

new work 2025

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​ In May of last year a trip to Cape Flattery on the Northwest tip of Washington state included a sighting of pigeon guillemots. The stunning scenery along with the brilliant red feet of these seabirds made for a joyful experience. The feet are a central part of the courtship with the male strutting around showing off his red splendor. The pair featured on the lower right had just mated...
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Outward Bound: Image 21" x 10" $315
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Quiet Along the Shore: image 21" x 10" $315
Common mergansers frequent an area on the east side of Greenlake. Often diving as a group to herd and capture fish they stir the water leaving patterns and bubbles on the surface.
​Between dives all is still, but for the disturbed lake surface. They are the bane of fisherfolk!.

local marshland, forested parks, ocean beaches - each home to a variety of birds...

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Chance Encounter: image 7" x 18" $215
On a recent visit to the Edmonds Marsh a flock of bushtits lit on the swaying stems of the bullrushes that lie alongside the boardwalk. ​
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Barred Owl: image 5" x 10" $160
This barred owl mother was perched on a limb watching over her two owlets who were testing their wings in the Arboretum. The three of them are featured in the large block print titled 'Initiation'.
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Sundown: image 4.5" x 10" $155
Sundown at the ocean. The end of a perfect day at LaPush.

​pelicans!

After a visit to the coast last fall and again this past May, both times seeing large flocks of brown pelicans, it became clear there is a shift North in their range. Flying the valleys between the waves, plunging beak first into the ocean, preening as they huddled in groups. These awkwardly graceful birds were captivating, prompting new work.
PicturePelican Beach: Image 7" x 18" $215
 

PictureWind Surfers: image 21" x 10" $315

The story of the marbled murrelet

This seabird nests deep within the old growth forest, laying a single egg on a mossy limb. 
The parents take turns nesting, flying back and forth to fish. Once hatched, they feed the baby till it fledges. Then they leave, abandoning the chick to find its way to the sea.
Hidden high and deep in the forest its nesting behavior wasn't discovered till the 1970's.
As the old growth forests are logged the murrelets disappear.  
Composing this piece was an intriguing challenge, but I was inspired when I found a photo taken by Brett Lovelace during his work with Oregon State University. He kindly gave permission to use the nest image, captured in his canopy work studying the murrelet.
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Marbled Murrelet: image 11" x 14" $210
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Shorebird Migration

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As I carved this block I was transported back into sunlight, sounds of surf and the wonderment as multitudes of birds whizzed past. It was migration time along the Pacific Coast - Leadbetter Point on the Long Beach Peninsula. So many blurred photos, but I came home with a cache from which to work.
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Surfing: image 21" x 10" $315

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Young barred owls test their wings in the Arboretum forest.
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Initiation: image 21" x 10" $315
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American Kestrel: image 4.5" x 9.5" $155
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Nesting I: image 4" diameter $65
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Nesting II: image 4" diameter $65
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November in the Marsh: image 4.5" x 9.5" $155

Nuthatches & waxwings

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Fleeting Moment: image 7" x 18" $215
A hike among the Ponderosa pines on a hot summer day. We stopped to rest and were gifted with the visit of a flock of nuthatches. Moving quickly, a fleeting moment.
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The Harvest: image 7" x 18" $215
Cedar waxwings gorge on the fruit of a Pacific crabapple. Tips of their tail feathers a vivid yellow as if dipped in paint. 

pileated woodpecker

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Forest Haunt: 21" x 10" $315
Camping along the Chewuch River. August heat and the aroma of ponderosa pine. I wonder which bird will show up. Barely saw the pileated woodpecker blasting through the forest across the river. Back and forth everyday, a flash of red, its wild call piercing the screen of ponderosa, cedar, cottonwood and firs.
A Forest Haunt.

western grebe - stiletto billed diver

I was inspired by a Western grebe diving through heavy surf in a winter storm at La Push.  This grebe is often called the swan of the grebes with its elegant long neck.
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Eye of the Storm: image 19" x 10" $315
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This photo inspired the block print 'Free Form'
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Such a waterbird!
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The position of the grebe's feet make it such powerful diver.

Being part of a flock

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PictureWave Runners: image 18" x 7" $215
Sanderlings dart between waves, digging into the wet sand racing along the ocean shore between waves. 


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Autumn in the marsh

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Autumn Gathering: image 21" x 10" $315
A hidden gem, the Edmonds Marsh follows the ebb and flow of the tide. Great blue herons congregate as the days grow shorter.

Winter in the marsh

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Through the winter they stood, usually folded into their wings with only a top-knot of feathers visible. 
 With flyovers of a bald eagle the herons unfolded, all beaks pointed skyward tracking its flight. 
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Winter Vigil: image 18" x 7" $215

one hundred herons

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 A Winter project:
100 pen & ink studies of herons.


Working from photos taken at the Edmonds Marsh in its Winter beauty of soft browns, greys and silvers as the tide flows in and out.

Herons hunkered down amongst the reeds and grasses solitary yet congregating. Anatomy a mystery hidden in feathered plumes, neck folded, head tucked alongside and feet anchored in mud...

A meditation. 
A counterpoint to isolation as we traveled the unknown of a pandemic.
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Winter Flight: 10" x 21" $315
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Winter Heron: 6" diameter $155

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owl moon series

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Snowy Owl: image 4" diam. $65
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Northern Pygmy Owl: image 4" diam. $65
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Long-eared Owl: image 4" diam. $65
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Spotted Owl: image 4" diam. $65

LOON & OWL

Common Loon

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Moon Song: 6" x 12" $165
A long ago canoe trip in the Boundary Waters, loon calls haunting the night inspired 
​Moon Song.

Great Gray Owl

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Three Owl Tree: 10" x 12" $210
Inspired by a photo in Paul Bannick's book: Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls.
​By permission of author.

 Each print is an original
printed by hand in black ink and watercolored individually

Mount Rainier

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The Mountain: image 21" x 10" $315
Inspiration for this block print came from a stunning photo taken during a snowshoe hike.  The route was along the North side above Paradise led by an accomplished mountaineer. A pair of Clark's nutcrackers survey the winter landscape. These intelligent birds have stashes of thousands of conifer seeds for winter forage, most of which they retrieve though buried in snow. The rest are left to grow.

 nesting colony

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Steamboat Slough: image: 21" x 10" $315
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Cormorants in Silhouette

This piece was inspired by a photo generously shared by a local photographer kayaking Steamboat Slough.
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He captured the colony of nesting cormorants perched atop the pilings, remnants of another time. Mt. Baker in the distance marks its unique location.
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It was a delight to see wood ducks in late winter drifting in the waters of the Arboretum. Courtship a few weeks away.
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Bewick's Wren: 6" diameter $155
The wren, a garden visitor flitting through the dried flowers of the climbing hydrangea.
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Reflection: image 8" x 14" $210
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Varied Thrush: 6" diameter $155
The call of the varied thrush, a sweet reward for morning coffee taken in the chill of dawn's early light.

tidepool banquet

Black oystercatchers forage ocean tidepools feasting on limpets, mussels and other marine organisms. Their flight is punctuated with a distinct whistling call. Pairs stay together year round, their vivid orange-red powerful beaks stand out against the grey of winter. 
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Tidepool Banquet: image 21" x 10" $315

Summer on the River
with rough-winged swallows

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Riverbank nest tunnel
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Rough-winged swallows - the parents.
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The fledglings on a limb.
While we camped along the Chewuch River a family of  swallows were nesting in a riverbank tunnel beneath our campsite. We watched for two weeks as the parents vanished through the tangle of roots into the nest hole, bugs clenched in their beaks, swiftly exiting to capture more. Then suddenly all was quiet. The family had left the nest with the fledglings now in feeding positions along a bare limb. Each patiently waiting their turn.
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Raised on the River:i mage 7" x 18" $195
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Nest Watch: image 4" x 8.5" $100

Sandhill cranes

These fascinating birds have an ancient history with fossils clearly identifiable from 2.5 million years ago.
​More distant crane ancestors reach back 9 million years. It is one of the oldest bird species still in existence.
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They are tall, can be aggressive  and have a huge voice. 
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When needed their legs and beaks are powerful weapons as they strike out at a rival in courtship or defend their young.
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Its beak is heavy enough to penetrate the cranium of a smaller mammal (s.a. fox) that might prey on young.
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Promenade: image 7" x 18" $215
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Sandhill Sunset: image 6" x 18" $215

Night Heron - A Wetland Hunter

The black-crowned night heron feeds in the dim light of dusk and dawn. Its call is bit like a chihuahua, the sound a short sharp bark. Seems like all the heron family have an unexpected voice.
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Black-crowned Night Heron: image 7" x 18" $215
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Wetland Palette, a sampling of some of the watercolors used in this piece.
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Warbler Migration

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Audubon's Warbler - female
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Wilson's Warbler - male
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Audubon's Warbler - male
Spring visitors arrived  outside my studio window, feeding on the flowers of the vine maple. 
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Warbler Migration: image 16" x 9" $180
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Intaglio: Drypoints

These images are drawn directly on small (2" x 3") copper plates. The marks create depressions in the copper. Ink is applied and the plate is run through a press which transfers the ink to paper. After the print dries I apply watercolor.
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Chickadee
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Anna's Hummingbird
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Red-breasted Nuthatch
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Mountain Bluebird - female
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet
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Intaglio: Commuter Journals 

These etchings are done on copper plates (3" x 9") and feature individuals sketched over a period of years during my commute across town. A variety of techniques are employed including aquatint and soft ground. These create a resist on the plate through which I draw with tools that expose the metal plate. The plate is dipped in a ferric chloride bath. This corrodes the metal, leaving marks that hold ink transferring it to BFK Rives paper when the plate is run through a press. Once a print has dried, I apply watercolor creating varied clothing and background colors. ​
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April 9, 2010
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January 26, 1996
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January 31, 1995
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March 10, 1997
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December 20, 1997
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May 26, 2011
Titles record the date I sketched an individual paused on a corner waiting for a light to change or walking down a street in Seattle. 
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