My drawings represent a time period of living in a riparian habitat from 1983-2023 - 40 years in Stehekin.  We come and go now as we did in the beginning when we were building our home.  I live between Battalion creek and the Stehekin River. 

The Battalion Creek Beaver pond behind our home is close enough to hear a slap of a tail or a tree falling. The pond has captured my attention for many years. The bank beavers come and go, build/rebuild the dam, modifying the flow and the forest nearby. Sometimes flooding alters their constructions.  The creek rises and falls.  Drowned cedar skeletons catch the light in a dark forest.

Changes with time of day, light, shadow, weather, seasons and the work of the beavers, inspires  meditation, exploration and little drawings to share at this time.  

Stehekin Windows have become part of my biograpy. The windows on our landscape have a history, inside and out from our place in space, like a a sundial creating patterns of interior light and shade as the earth moves and the seasons change.   

The Three drawings, not plein air, are all done from inside the windows in the Company Creek Forest on 3 rainy days, loving the patterns and colors undimmed. Not moments in time - the drawings took time using colored pencils and ink preserving the autumn days, anticipating spring as leaves begin to fall.

Patterns shift as time passes.