Channel Islands

In 2005, I was selected, along with 2 dozen other artists from Ventura and Santa Barbara, to spend a year visiting the Channel Islands and making art to be exhibited by the Ventura County Museum upon the 25th anniversary of Channel Islands National Park. Over the next 12 years, I managed to stay at and to explore all eight of the Channel Islands making more than two dozen paintings, several of which took the better part of a year to paint. I thought I’d posted an album of these long ago, but evidently not, so here (in more or less chronological order) are some of them. Many thanks to my friends in the national park and Channel Islands Restoration with whom I volunteered—until the pandemic grounded us all. Altho I’ve moved on to different subject matter, my time there, freezing wet, knee deep in tidepools or picking weeds from wee pots of dudleyas and planting out oak seedlings in 35 mph winds was the experience of a lifetime. I am so grateful to all those who made it possible, to the friends I made in the process, and to Craig Krull for providing a venue for the work at his Bergamot Station gallery.