Gallery
Leaves
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Starshine
My paintings happen in at least a couple of ways: I'm out hunting for them, usually in a garden, camera in hand, gorgeousness all around me. It can be overwhelming - all these potential paintings, everywhere! Then there's the way this one came to be - just walking...
Kindred
One a cool January morning, as I walked by a neighbor’s front yard, this cluster of succulents catching the just rising sunlight jumped up at me, telling me to take their picture. Succulents have been quite popular in paintings, sculptures as well as in gardens these...
Returning
That this painting exists is a surprise to me. The timestamp on the photo is December 2006. On the way back from hiking with our dog, I looked down at a lawn next to the sidewalk, strewn with the leaves from their liquid amber trees, iced with frost. My eyes landed...
Napa
It was late autumn, the day I drove home after a lunch at Greystone in St. Helena. On the side of Highway 29, the main route through the Napa Valley, lies vinyard after vinyard. The afternoon sun was low in the sky and as it shone through the reds and yellows of the...
Rest
I was up in the wine country - the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma late in the year. My sweetie suggested I check out the Christmas tree farm on Moon Mountain. Driving back down the road I saw along the way – someone’s home, not a big vineyard – grapes near the fence....