A Window On Time

I created this piece around 1976 while living in Eugene, Oregon.  The work is based on the interior of an old cabin in Northeastern Oregon near Meacham.  I drove past the cabin five mornings a week while working as a bank courier. I stopped several times to make sketches of the interior with the basin, pitcher and broken window.  The view from the window is an imagined one.  The art sold shortly after I completed it and is in a private collection in Oregon.

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Winter Springcreek

8" x 8", Graham watercolors on 100# Arches paper

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Today's painting was inspired by my backyard. I've painted the view from down in the deep draw behind my home, taking artistic license and eliminating the houses that actually sit at the base of the mountain ridge. My home sits on the lip of the draw. There are underground springs, some of which originate on our property, feeding the small creek. The city of Helena also uses this draw to receive storm runoff water from the hills to the south of us.

This springcreek draw is a rich environment of cattails, red willow, wild roses, and tall grasses. Deer come here to graze and rest down out of the wind. And the habitat is also used by lots of chirping, singing, and hunting birds.

The mountain ridge is part of the southern rim of the Helena Valley. Mt Ascension, a prominent feature of the Valley, is on the right.