Compass Explorers

Chuck Wagoner’s memorial and the painting I was working on the day and hour he passed away. My favorite picture of my dad & I on one of my last visits to New Hampshire to see him. Chuck was the sound engineer for the Easy Chair tapes for the Chalcedon Foundation. His contribution to my father’s work was invaluable.

My father’s draft card from 1942, when he was 24. And my painting, “Enchantress” oil on canvas, 24” x 36” 2023. He always encouraged my art, and told me I was beautiful and talented. Forever grateful.

Various stages of Marie Antoinette painting, inspired in equal measure by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola’s remarkable film and by my father’s remarkable book on Robespierre, my favorite of his books. Haunting story, riveting narrative of a rogue’s gallery of unforgettable, larger than life characters. I plan on republishing that book. One decision my father made that I disagree with was to omit the speeches of Robespierre from the book. He felt that the power and genius of his words would overbalance the story. I’m putting them back in.