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"In 1981 my wife, the writer/artist sloy & I banded together with a pact that with her words & my pictures we would create a body of work focused on transcendence, not ideas. It remains our calling to this day. I started by drawing & painting the houses, trees, cars & people of the northeast Salem neighborhood I've lived in or around most of my life. This place remains a fundamental source of inspiration. Since those 1st days I've expanded my horizons somewhat. We've lived on Camano Island, WA, and in San Diego, driven & camped from Salem to NYC twice taking long ways home, made numerous trips back & forth around the Western US & recorded all in drawings, paintings & words. Almost from the beginning my representations of life started edging toward abstraction. In 1983 I called a color pencil drawing of a chair 'Transporting Furniture to Heaven' because the chair seemed to be dissolving. I was also becoming aware of the importance of line in my work. Usually a few quickly drawn lead pencil lines were the basis of my drawings & paintings, big & small. Those 2 forces, dissolving & line, working on each other have been the crux of everything i've done since & with that, the dialogue between drawing the life around me & the dissolving into, has been almost exclusively non objective work since 2008. To my eyes it reads as 'real'."

~Nic

"i am a lucky man. half my life ago i stumbled onto a woman and a purpose. this juncture gave meaning to everything. what began then was a devotion/commitment to making things, books & pictures that called us to go further and to follow where it all took us. the more we worked, painting and writing were our first steps, the more making things was all we wanted to do. even the mundane,— having a job, mowing the lawn, doing laundry—became part of the working out of our vision."

~Nic