Old Frontenac/Frontenac State Park

Ten years ago I began to paint in Old Frontenac, Minnesota. In a master drawing class at MCAD, Robert Reed, visiting professor from Yale, advised me to make a commitment to a place to which I have a strong emotional connection; to go there regularly, and to make hundreds of drawings of investigation.

Before it became my painting place, Frontenac was one of my spiritual homes, the locus of many happy times with my closest friends and our extended family. The patio of the Kiscaden's cabin, near Point No Point, was my chosen place to begin the investigation with a series of large scale charcoal drawings.