Three-color, red-wing blackbird design. This design was hand-drawn and hand-printed on paper for my open studio last year. I've just recently started printing them again in a variety of color combos.

I sent all of my panels down for exhibition in a gallery in Bluffton, near Hilton Head Island, SC, last week. These are from a series of paintings on birch panels focusing on animals that I see in the Lowcountry, where I currently live on a sailboat.

It seems pretty amazing that honey comes from this small insect and its interaction with flowers. I played with the scale and proportions of my bees because I wanted to show them both large, to highlight their beautiful form, and small, as we know them.

This is the first painting of three. I chose to focus on shrimp because I live on a sailboat and wanted to take a closer look at another population that inhabits the water around me. Shrimp are so small compared to the size of humans; I really enjoyed playing with the different scales and proportions. I hope this painting brings a greater awareness to the existence of shrimp.

I have tried to keep sketchbooks in the past, but without much luck. With this sketchbook, I have taken a different approach. Instead of sketching random objects, I am trying to be a bit more concept driven, tying everything back to nature. In that sense, each page illustrates a different awareness of nature and existence in the natural world. I have been allowing myself to follow my intuition here and am trying to let it evolve on its own. My only rule is that if I start a new page, I work to develop the concept to the best of my ability and follow it wherever it takes me.