Smoky Summers

Our experience of summer has changed and slowly our conception of it as well. Wildfires, a new summer reality, and the smoke that envelops the landscape is inescapable. In times where fire, flood, and other climate events make our relationship to nature impossible to ignore, a spirit of flexibility, gentleness, hope,  generosity and cooperation become even more important as we collectively grieve and seek out alternative relationships with land and water.

These paintings document our smoky summers, their beauty, tranquillity and the joy and freedom that come when school is out, days are long and the weather is warm.