“Bison Hunt Memories” 24 x 36” Oil painting on Clayboard

The action and adventure of a bison hunt are recalled in this painting.  Tales of the hunt were passed down from generation to generation of Native Americans, as the bison was the very lifeblood of the Plains Indian culture.  This painting depicts the interior of a canvas tipi, the material that was by necessity implemented after the bison were nearly wiped out to extinction.

My paintings are about stories.  The human race is founded upon them.  Stories that constitute our past, our present and our imagined future.  The older I get, the more clearly I see that history is not black and white, and that there are infinite factors which determined how things have unfolded on this earth.  There are possibly as many versions of the “true” story of a historical event, as the people who lived it.  All versions of the truth, make up the reality …