HIGH SIERRA BLUES

Visionary Landscapes featuring Lake Tahoe, High Sierra landscapes, and my favorite alpine lakes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

High Sierra Blues is the beginning of a new collection exploring the landscapes of my favorite California landscape: the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Through six new paintings on wood panels, I explore the interplay of light, water, and alpine terrain, from Lake Tahoe to hidden high-elevation lakes and jagged peaks. These works are both representational and visionary, imagining the Sierras as a space of memory, possibility, and reverence.

The Sierra Nevada has shaped my life and my creative practice. Growing up above Placerville, CA, my earliest adventures - camping at Lake Tahoe, backpacking near Donner Pass, fishing at Ice House Reservoir - instilled in me a deep connection to this land. This connection inspires my ongoing exploration of how humans relate to place and how we might re-remember our roles as stewards of the natural world.

Every time I step out for a hike or paddle in the Sierras, I silently thank the Indigenous tribes native to Lake Tahoe and the hundreds of tribes who have tended this land for millennia. Their enduring presence, knowledge, wisdom, love and care for these places inform my work and remind me of the histories embedded in every valley, ridge, and river. Each of these spots have a sacred indigenous name. Most of them lost to time.

Through my High Sierra Blues series, I invite viewers to experience the mountains not just as landscapes, but as living ecosystems that carry stories, memory, and possibility. This collection is both a celebration and a call to imagination - encouraging us to recognize our responsibility to preserve, protect, and reimagine our relationship with this extraordinary land. Blues refer to the lakes, streams, waters, and skies. May we always keep them blue and blue-green healthy.

Titles and artwork details coming soon.