Several years before painting this, I was hiking when the memory surfaced: I needed to paint that photo of myself—nearly 35, lying on a wall at my mother’s cousin Jacinta’s house in Croatia. No one remembers who took it, and I don’t remember lying down like that....
On Saturday the commissioned diptych I painted at the start of the year went home. Chris and Bob came over to see the piece for the first time and take it down south with them. Here’s the story from my portfolio gallery: Chris and Bob are dear friends from when...
Towards the end of last year, as I sat to write, I was coming up empty. Looking around inside for what to say there were neither words nor the energy to dig deeper. 2017 was a big year – the summer was a sprint from a family Europe trip to remodeling our kitchen and...
This one snuck up on me. I took photos of these roses at the Russian River Rose Company in Healdsburg, CA years before. The ambush happened during a Thursday evening group. I was looking through my photo library for images of softly colored roses to help a student,...
Shop Archival Prints Fruit Gallery Contact Me For Details Wait… there are still plums on the tree… and it’s September! Returning home from a hike up the hill with the dog in our neighborhood in Fairfax, I was taken aback by the sight. Normally the...
