2018
Oil on canvas, 18”x24”

$250.00

I first visited Capitol Reef National Park back in 2016. It encompasses a large monocline that stretches from north to south for about a hundred miles. Here on one side of that monocline the earth seems to jut out, leaving a long cliff face that radiates the sun back in a wide variety of colors and shapes.

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2018
Oil on Canvas, 30”x24”

$490.00

One of the more iconic features of Arches National Park is this non-arch formation found in the first major section of the park. I found it’s name to be a bit underwhelming and instead chose something I thought was a bit more fitting as this grand structure towers over the visitor, dwarfing them in its shadow.

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2020
Oil on canvas, 18”x248”

$300.00

The key feature of Capitol Reef is the Waterpocket Fold, a cliff face that stretches nearly 100 miles looming over all visitors.

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2018
Oil on canvas, 18”x24”

$250.00

At the Paradise Visitors Center, when facing away from Mount Rainier, the viewer is confronted with a ridge of mountains known as the Tatoosh Range. Pinnacle Peak is not the most prominent of this range, but it stands squarely in the center, a visual echo to the mighty mountain of the park’s namesake.

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2019
Oil on canvas, 24”x18”

$250.00

Hidden behind the namesake peak of the park is Mount Owen. It can be best seen (as here) from Cascade Canyon, the best hike in the park.

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2019
Oil on canvas, 12”x16”

$175.00

The Paiute Indians who originally lived on the land told stories about how the rock formations were people who had been turned to stone. In this particular row of hoodoos I could see their story come to life, a group of ancient spirits huddled together.

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2019
Oil on Canvas, 12“x16”

$175.00

The Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone are just that - mammoth! Travertine terraces cascading down the side of a mountain replete with hot sulfurous steam rising up from beneath - a spectacle that (understandably) the native peoples and first European explorers met with both fear and awe.

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2019
Oil on canvas, 12”x16”

$150.00

After the famous Grand Prismatic Spring, this is maybe the best single best hot spring in Yellowstone. But unlike the former it can be viewed from the ground and taken in from a single vantage. In the first half of the 20th century, it was almost entirely a deep shade of blue (hence it’s name), but sadly the poor actions of tourists (throwing items into the spring) over the past century have caused it too take on a more greenish-yellow shade, with experts predicting it will lose all its color in the not-too distant future.

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2019
Oil on canvas, 24”x18”

$250.00

Aside from it’s vast size, the most striking feature of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone may be its color. Thermophiles thrive in the water’s hot temperatures, producing a kaleidoscopic rainbow that enlivens the already beautiful landscape.

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2021
Oil on canvas, 18”x24”

$200.00

Maybe the single most famous structure at Channel Islands National Park, Arch Rock stands alone besides the cliffs of Anacapa Island, it’s form hollowed out by centuries of unending waves.

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2021
Oil on canvas, 16”x12”

SOLD

Having just returned from a short hike at Two-Medicine Lake, the skies opened up and it down-poured. We waited it out in the General Store, and as the rains lightened the sun snuck in lent an atmospheric light to the scene.

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2022
Oil on canvas, 30”x24”

SOLD

Canyonlands is without a doubt one of the most spectacular desolate wildernesses on the planet.

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2022
Oil on canvas, 12”x16”

$150.00

The first of two: we saw many wonderful scenes as we drove through northern Arizona.

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2022
Oil on canvas, 12”x16”

$150.00

The second of two: it’s easy to see why so many consider these lands sacred.

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