My painting of Tower Rock donated to The Buffalo River National Park Collection

National Arts in the Park

Artist Residency 2001

      In the summer of 2001, I was awarded an Artist-in-Residency at Steel Creek in the Buffalo River National Park of Arkansas.  For two weeks I lived in a two-room apartment up over a horse stable with no TV, radio reception, or telephone.  There were a couple horses in the stable, but the closest human was a park ranger who lived in a stone house (almost shouting distance), down the valley.  There was a pay phone near his house overlooking Tower Rock where I could call home in the evenings.  On the up side there was nothing to do but swim in the river and paint.  Great plein-air experience.

Tower Rock Painting

Steel Cliffs on the Buffalo River

Sketch of the Ranger Station

Photo of the artist apartment and stables

Photo of same view/different angle

Photo of horses & cliffs behind the stables

Painting of cliffs stained with iron deposits