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Oil on Canvas 24 x 36 

Sacred Ground Series

Hilda United Methodist Church is where generations of my family worshiped long before I stood in its pulpit. Each Easter morning the community gathers on the hill at sunrise, waiting in quiet expectation. As the first light breaks behind the steeple, resurrection felt less like metaphor and more like memory—light returning to ground made sacred by prayer.

Oil on Canvas 24 x 30 

Sacred Ground Series

There is a quiet holiness found in the overlooked places of Hill Country landscapes. A shallow creek winds through limestone and grasses, shaped slowly by water, weather, and time. What appears ordinary at first glance reveals a deeper story of patience and transformation—reminding us that grace often works the same way, gently carving beauty and purpose into the places we least expect.

Oil on Canvas Panel 16x12 

Accepted to the 2026 San Antonio Art League + Museum Juried Exhibition.

This painting grew out of an early morning walk down to the low-water crossing at Beaver Creek. 

This place holds generations of memory for me: family stories from after World War II, childhood swims, days with my own children, and now time spent here with my grandchildren.

Where Water Holds the Sky is unavailable for purchase until June as it is part of a curated exhibit.

Oil on Canvas 14x11 

Sacred Ground Series

Not every sacred place announces itself. Some reveal their meaning slowly. While painting this limestone bluff along a quiet Hill Country river, the layered rock briefly suggested a human face hidden within the stone before disappearing beneath the final details. It was a reminder that landscapes carry stories deeper than what we see — and that much of what shapes us, like grace itself, often works quietly beneath the surface.

Oil on Canvas 16x12 

Sacred Ground Series

Stones That Remember reflects the quiet weight of history held within the walls of Mission Espíritu Santo in Goliad, Texas. Painted from a memory of a long-awaited day of exploration after a season of stillness, the scene captures both beauty and complexity. These stones bear witness to faith, resilience, and loss—holding stories that continue to echo beneath the surface of the present.

Oil on Canvas 18x24

Sacred Ground Series

There are many places in the Texas Hill Country back roads where cattle roam free across the roads.  Ranchers own property on both sides of the road and don't have fences to contain them.  They make driving the roads on Spring mornings a bit more beautiful if not dangerous.  Gotta pay attention.

Oil on Canvas. 9x12 

This small church in Castell, Texas was the first congregation I ever served as a pastor. Though I was there only one year, it was where I preached my first Easter and Christmas and learned what ministry truly meant. Trinity United Methodist Church closed in 2019, but the prayers, hymns, and quiet beginnings that took place here remain sacred ground in my story.

Oil on Canvas 22x28 

Sacred Gound Series

When we served a small country church, a rancher in the congregation gave our family an orphaned calf to raise. My children bottle fed Mitch each day, often laughing as he kicked and bucked while drinking. I painted him one evening while listening to a high school football game on the radio, using a single brush. It remains a quiet reminder that sacred ground often looks like ordinary family life.

Limited Edition prints now available!

Signed and numbered. Two sizes available

Our middle daughter met her husband at Southwestern and they married in the chapel in 2025.  I painted this as a wedding present for them.  They have the original, but signed and numbered limited edition prints are now available.

Limited edition prints now available! Signed and numbered. Multiple sizes available.  Before I graduated from seminary (a different seminary) I dontated a painting of  the other seminary's chapel and received a scholarship.  When I decided to get a doctorate, I decided to try the same thing at SMU.  Well, I painted the chapel and then ended up going to Duke instead.  

Oil on Canvas 14x11 $680

As I painted this piece, I mostly listened to John Denver on pandora. There’s something about his music that brings a sense of quiet country mornings and a crisp hope of a new day. This scene looks across Beaver Creek in Mason County as the sun rises. As I painted it, I kept thinking that this painting should go in someone’s home where they drink their coffee in the mornings, because one of Cindy and my favorite things is to drink coffee as the sun rises at our cabin on Beaver Creek. .

Limited Edition prints available soon.

Signed and numbered.

We have a place in Mason County between Mason and Fredericksburg.  One of our pastures shares a fenceline with some Longhorns.  They like to come see what we're doing from time to time.  I love to paint them.  They seem to have personality.