A painter's collage — backpack, paint tubes, a small painted study of a river, palette, camera, and an open sketchbook with a handwritten field note

field notes from a painter on the road

Every painting starts with a place.

These are real places. You can go there too.

The thrill of seeing a beautiful place for the first time is hard to explain — so I paint it.

Every adventure leads to a moment of awe and wonder.

Every painting takes me back again.

And that's the gift I want to share with you.

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latest adventures

A handful of the most recent field notes. The full journal — organized by state — lives on the Adventures page.

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The Narrows — slot canyon walls rising over two distant hikers at a river bend

Zion National Park, Utah

The canyon draws you deeper to discover the grandeur around each bend.

the narrows

Mt. Sneffels in the distance with snow-capped peaks above a sweep of autumn aspens in red, orange, and gold

San Juan Mountains Scenic View Hwy 62

The autumn patchwork of Mt. Sneffels

Ouray to Telluride

Trisha standing in the badlands wearing a sun hat and blue scarf, smiling at the camera

on the road

Waking up in wonderland

van life

Sunset over the Pacific at Doheny State Beach, California — pink and gold sky reflecting on wet sand

Doheny Beach, California

Birthday camping with the Pacific

california coast

The reference photograph for The Light — slot canyon walls rising over hikers, light pouring down from above, the river below

Zion National Park, Utah

The photo that made me come back to paint it

reference · the light

paintings available

Original oils, ready to live somewhere that deserves them.

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on the road with WanderWonders

From the east coast of Florida to the west coast of California and all the beautiful places in between, we bring them to you through video stories, photos, and paintings.

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Video thumbnail — Southwest Utah, Play All Day, on WanderWonders

Zion, Utah

Southwest Utah — Play All Day

WanderWonders · travel

Playlist thumbnail — Boondocking Colorado, the WanderWonders long-format travel playlist on YouTube

on the road

Boondocking Colorado

WanderWonders · long-format travel playlist

postcards from the road —

Trisha painting plein air at Tortilla Flat State Park, Arizona — saguaros and red rock walls in the distance
Plein air at Tortilla Flat — northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. Winter camping wonderland.
Our white van parked beneath sandstone hoodoos at Red Rock Canyon State Park, California
Setting up camp in a sandcastle wonderland — Red Rock Canyon State Park, California.

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