Another painting in my series of South Cumberland State Park in Tennessee, completed this month. I love this quote by the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean". These words ring true to me. Isn't that why we return to the woods again and again? The sky, the woods and fields, brooks and meadows, the hills and the ravines, are the b

My new piece is one in a series of paintings documenting the park system in Tennessee. By hiking various parks near my home, I've had an opportunity to view many beautiful scenes and varied terrains as well as the distinct seasons here in the beautiful South. My desire is to capture the very essence of the parks and it's ever changing light with the passing of those seasons. In this work I've taken the liberty of snapping a photo of my wife Kathy's son Landon hiking along the