Painting progress of my first painting in the series
I am having a show during May of 2025 at the Winchester Goose in Chico, CA called Ascential Flux.
What to paint? I ask myself that all the time. I flip through my sketchbook—half the pages are filled with post-impressionistic cubism, like some subconscious habit. Shapes, shading, abstract faces, all coming together in a way that feels Picasso-esque.
Why not just paint them? I’ve done it before. My process usually starts with thumbnails—unfinished thoughts, doodles in margins, quick scribbles. There’s something about them. The initial energy already exists in the thumbnail: the idea, the layout, the feeling. I constantly thumbnail miniature pieces.
Eventually, I flip to a page and bring it to life. Not all of them hit, but painting an entire piece in one sitting and moving to the next teaches me something. The shapes I like, the themes that keep showing up, the colors I instinctively mix.
Lately, I’ve leaned into staircases. I love photographing them, capturing their rhythm. Maybe it's because every day, I climb a huge staircase to get to my studio—an ascent that’s starting to define my process.
Official Show Blurb:
ASCENTIAL FLUX
Exploring Shape, Memory & Unfinished Thoughts
New Works and Familiar Favs
Using Sketchbooks full of thumbnail ideas—fragmented faces, swirling orbs, staircases leading somewhere unknown. The raw energy lives in the first marks, the impulse, the Painted Shapes giving rhythm as the composition settles. This show is about following that motion—letting instinct take over and moving piece to piece, shape to shape, thought to thought.
A collection of paintings in flux.
May 23, 2025 at The Goose, Chico.