An Invitation: Apprenticeships in the Studio 

Every so often, I open my studio to a very small number of apprentices. This isn't a class — but it is a learning environment. You'll spend only a small portion of your time on your own work; the rest will be spent watching, absorbing, and engaging. You'll see firsthand what it takes to conceive, plan, and orchestrate a large canvas from the first idea to the final stroke.

Painting large is its own discipline. Scale changes everything — how you compose, how you build, how you hold an entire image in your mind while your hand touches only one small part of it. That's what these apprenticeships are about: not just painting bigger, but understanding how a large painting is orchestrated, through hours of watching, working, and endless questions and answers.

Because of the nature of this work, I take on very few people in any given year — as a rule, only two apprentices at a time, unless we arrange something different together. These positions are limited by design, and they don't come around often.

If this stirs something in you, I'd love to hear from you. Send me an email letting me know you're interested, and I'll follow up with the details.