Soilscape Studio

10/17/2018

09/23/2011

Dawn Ferris, of the Soil Science Society of America, dropped by the studio recently. Here are her impressions...

04/29/2011

Today is the start of the competition for the National Collegiate Soil Judging Contest, that Oregon State University, Corvallis and Cascades, is hosting in Bend. About 175 students from 21 universities have been studying soil pits around central Oregon this past week. The individual contest is today, in the Sunriver area. Tomorrow the team contest will take place.

This is a view of one of the practice soil pits and its setting. Running this competition has been a major investment of time and effort, yet very inspiring for my series of Oregon soil paintings!

03/11/2011

Received award for having created one of the best art-science illustrations of 2010 (summer 2010 cover of the journal 'Soil Survey Horizons'). Awards were recently announced in the journal 'Science.'

11/28/2010

11/28/2010

Paintings of soils and soilscapes without use of soil as pigmenting or textural agent.