If you are a returning customer, I would like to take this opportunity to say a heartfelt Thank You! I love painting, but the best thing about this career has been the chance to meet so many nice, helpful and interesting people who have stopped in to shop or chat! I hope this website can provide a helpful way for returning customers to “revisit” the store.

If you are unfamiliar with my art, welcome also! I am a wildlife artist, I work in gouache, am interested in conservation, and have published prints, posters and notecards of my paintings that are available here, along with news and opinions. This is also the home of the YardBirdRace, a Western Washington birding competition in which the excitement builds all year long!

With the help of Cartwheel Creative, the website has recently (summer/07) been revamped and we have added our Art - Online Store. If you'd like to order a print, poster or notecards, we have tried to make the store self explanatory, but please feel free to email me with questions or suggestions.

For those interested in the painting process, I have a page devoted to showing my work as it is in the process of being created. I put up a new shot every time I've added a significant amount of paint, and also reveal what I'm thinking about the compositional and technical issues, as well as my occasional frustrations when the painting starts giving me trouble.

As a representational painter, photography is very interesting to me, whether it's by me or others. Photography tells us what the world really looks like—our mind appreciates it but doesn't retain it. My approach to photography is completely casual, but I get a half-decent shot now and then and immediately post them up on Ed's Sightings, which also ends up being a running account of the what's going on in our backyard, which we've tried to make natural with no lawn, and on the trips Delia & I have taken.

Go to Viewpoints if you are interested in thoughts and opinions on various subjects. Many of the viewpoints are about conservation. One discusses ways of helping swallows survive in urban areas, another is a tribute to the work of the late Kevin Li in helping re-establish Seattle's Purple Martins, and others focus on shade coffee and eco-touring.

Thanks so much for visiting this website, and I hope you enjoy your visit.