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I believe we were skiing down �Broadway� run at Aspen Highlands and we came
upon this specatular vista of the famous Maroon Bells. One of our party snapped a photo and asked me to paint it someday. I did--in Colored Pencil.
I worked hard to get it right, because I love these mountains and wanted someone to be able to look at this piece and say: �Hey, I hiked to that ridge right there� or
�I stood in exactly that spot.�

Parts of my story are integral to why I do what I do, what motivates me and the emotions and ideas I am trying to convey through my work. CS Lewis said, in Till We Have Faces... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing, to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing...The longing for home...For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. My mother told people the first thing I ever drew was a horse before I was three in the dust on the kitchen floor of the little white clapboard parsonage in the North Woods of Wisconsin. In 1963, our family took a trip Out West to Vancouver, BC,...