Chatfield Gallery

05/05/2026

Created another bejewelled cow skull for the installation!

05/02/2026

People often ask why there is a dinosaur biting a baby. The image appears violent at first glance, even absurd, but it is not meant to resolve comfortably. It holds two temporal forces in tension.

On one level, it speaks to the stubborn emergence of life. The baby, soft and unfinished, stands in for the first growth of spring, those tender shoots that arrive before the world is ready for them. The dinosaur, an anachronistic predator, embodies winter’s lingering bite, the cold that refuses to release its hold, the past season still pressing into the present. Growth does not wait for safety. It appears precisely under pressure.

On another level, the scene folds time inward. The dinosaur is not only winter but history itself, ancient, immense, and unrelenting. The baby is the present moment, new, vulnerable, and unaware of the weight bearing down upon it. Their entanglement forms a living loop, an ouroboros of becoming and undoing. What is new is always already being shaped, constrained, and partially consumed by what came before.

The installation as a whole operates as a cycle rather than a narrative. It resists resolution. Life emerges, is pressed upon, transforms, and emerges again. The figures do not represent a single event but a condition, the constant negotiation between renewal and inheritance. In this space, growth is not separate from pressure. It is produced by it.

To stand within the work is to recognize that nothing arrives cleanly. Every beginning carries teeth marks.

04/28/2026

We are excited to announce our partnership with spiritual medium Toni Dent! On May 17th Toni will be offering tarot or mediumship readings here at The Chatfield Gallery. Only 6 readings will be available on that day so click the link and book your time now!

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04/16/2026

I’ve been adding flowers day by day this week to the installation and crowned it with a tearful deity this morning to water them.

03/30/2026

Gouache on paper

03/18/2026

Apparently the weather cannot be relied upon, so snow or no snow we will be opening for the season on April 3! Due to logistical reasons only 3 of our 4 stores will be opening that day with the new discount store opening later in the month. Our hours will be remaining as they were, open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10-5. See you in Chatfield!

03/16/2026

Here are the digital reproductions of my recent paintings.

03/15/2026

Gouache and oil paint