About the Artist

I've been painting a long time, since my Grandmother gave me a set of watercolors while, for a brief time, we lived in Arlington, Virginia. I must have been about eight years old. I used my first camera, a brownie box camera, a couple of years after that. In the years hence, the only time I've stopped drawing, painting or photographing was to get a job. I'm over that.

I did some school, took some classes, taught a class. Now, I just paint.
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Photo: Chris Coffin, copyright, 2010 Chris Coffin
 
Shows

'12 - Paintings and Photographs, Beachstore Cafe, Lummi Island, WA

'12 - Paintings from 2011-2012, Brandywine Kitchen, Bellingham, WA

'11 - "Paintings" - Recent paintings, Westside Local, Kansas City, MO

'08 - "Dance at WWU" - retrospective solo show, Performing Arts Center, WWU, Bellingham, WA

'07 - "Dance Photography", solo show, Performing Arts Center, WWU, Bellingham, WA

'06 - "Art of Dance", solo show, Performing Arts Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Sept. '06 - "Scablands", solo show, photos from Eastern Washington and Oregon, Coffin Gallery, Bellingham, WA

July '06 - "Conversation", solo show, 72 candid portraits on one wall with audio mix of conversations
and ambient sound, Coffin Gallery, Bellingham, WA

May '06 - Photos of NYC and Kansas City, solo show, Coffin Gallery, Bellingham, WA

'05-'08 - "Dance", solo show, exhibit of dance performance photographs, Ving! Dance Studio

Feb. '05 - b/w photographs, solo show (72 photos), The Nightlight Lounge, Bellingham, WA

Oct. '03 - b/w and color photographs, solo show, Druids Restaurant, NYC

Sept. - Oct. '03 - "Transformation," b/w photographs, part of the Submerge Festival,
Lackawanna Caboose Historic Train, at Pier 63, NYC

June-Sept, '03 - "Colors" - color photographs, Nimbus Restaurant, Bellingham, WA

May, '91 - pastels and watercolors, with Warren Dahl, Golden Gallery, Snohomish, WA

July, '89 - pastels, with James Coffin, Golden Gallery, Snohomish, WA

'87-'88 - pastels, ongoing exhibiting at Art Insights, NYC

'86 - oils and pastels at The Landing, Bellingham, WA

'85 - watercolors at Harris Ave. Music Gallery, Bellingham, WA