Solo Exhibition: Everyday Miracles

November 20, 2025 through January 24, 2026

Bottleworks Art Center of Johnstown PA

Opening Reception Nov 20 from 6:00-8:00pm at the Bottleworks

Weeds push through gravel, empty industrial buildings stand as haunted monuments, divine light shimmers on the river constrained to a concrete ditch. An abandoned downtown, once crowded, yet history still hums in the air. 

Using oil and acrylic paint, graphite, collage and monoprinting techniques I make images of where I live. From portraits of our rustbelt towns painted en plein air, to larger impressions of mountain and sky, abstracted into forms of energy and presence, my work reflects the deep reverence I have for the places that nurture us.

Our cities hold layers of stories, and the ancient earth grounds us even as it opens to the infinite.The massive forms of northern Appalachian ridges hold deep time and literally put us in our place. 

Our places are not static but alive with potential: grounds where we can imagine and create new stories.

In these lines from William Blake I find a prayer, and advice for the seeker:

To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower;
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

~William Blake, from Auguries of Innocence

Making art is my way into that seeking,  reminding us that the miraculous is always close at hand.