I've always loved watercolors, but as an oil painter, they intimidated me because the process is so different. In 2018 I was faced with the challenge of shipping 60 large oil paintings across the world because of an unplanned move. Wanting to work in a medium that was more compatible with a mobile lifestyle, I spent the next year teaching myself to paint with watercolors, and fell in love with the process. Some day I am sure I will pull out my oil paints again, but for now I am enamored with watercolors.

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Life is made up of a thousand details: colors, textiles, smells, textures, shapes, tastes, and the myriad of combinations in which different people put those things together in ways that make sense to them. This is one thing I love about traveling and living in places outside my home country: it expands my world to encounter the ways other people make up a life and together create a shared culture. Here are my paintings depicting some of the ordinary scenes of life mostly in SE Asia, but also including any of my work about parts of Asia outside NW China. Because the body of my work about NW China is so large, it gets a page all its own here.

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