The Coastal Archive
The Coastal Archive is an ongoing exploration of place through watercolor, collected color, field notes, and natural materials. I’m interested in how pigments can hold traces of season, landscape, memory, and change — and in documenting the process as carefully as the finished painting.
Collected Color
Some colors begin as purchased earth pigments; others begin as leaves, flowers, lichen, charcoal, or other responsibly sourced materials. Each experiment is swatched, tested, named, and recorded along with where it came from and how it changed along the way. Successes matter, but so do the strange jars, unexpected colors, and experiments that refuse to cooperate.
Inside the Archive
Collected Color
Pigments, swatches, lake colors, minerals, and the transformation of material into paint.
Field Notes
Observations, provenance, seasonality, process, and the record of what worked — and what didn’t.
Paintings from Place
Small studies and finished works shaped by the colors, materials, and landscapes of the archive.
The Coastal Archive is less about preserving things unchanged than about paying close attention while they are here.
Look closely, anyway.