Hi all,

I'm really happy to finally have a new website up and running.  I'm still working out the kinks and adding new work but it's about 80% there.  

I had a great website that launched about ten years ago.  It was designed by the talented designer Matt Willemsen.  We maintained it for a good number of years and it served me well.  Yet technology and my creative production kind of outstripped its usefulness and I ended up taking it down a few years ago. 

Then I started working with another terrific designer, David Rogers.  We kept talking about the website, how to make it, how it would work and all that. David even created a wonderful prototype a couple of years ago.  Yet nothing seemed to stick.  My artwork kept unfolding and changing, we couldn't keep up with it.  So about a month ago David mentioned Square Space to me.  I checked it out and began working on my own website through the Square Space platform. 

Thus my new website!  David advised me a bit on some basics but I did it all myself.  However, my conversations and previous web related work with Matt and David taught me a lot about how a website works.  It is far more than just the content.  I owe them a huge THANK YOU for all their assistance. 

So this blog. 

I keep asking myself "why should I blog?"  Really, why should anyone blog? 

So far I haven't come up with a good answer except the obvious one, my ego.  It feels good to put my ideas out into the world in any form I can.  That's the reason I do my paintings. I also like to write and initiate dialogue or at least try and make a point about something.  My hope is that this blog will contain ruminations on my studio practice, my processes and my thinking about what I'm making.  I expect it will be a bit freewheeling but I'll also always try and make a point about something.  Oh and this blog is about marketing my artwork, just being honest.  

Anyway, I'll try and make it interesting, irritating (because that's just me) a bit provocative, maybe funny and for sure whacky. 

Here are links to Matt and David's websites…they are awesome artists.  Check them out!

http://davidrogersdesign.com

http://www.mattwillemsen.com