It’s just the best – being with someone who loves what we love as much as we do. This painting came out of that kind of experience. In the gardens at Filoli with dear artist friends Lenore and Sue. Sue and I share a thing about apple blossoms – how sweet...
These hydrangeas in my parents’ garden were still blooming the at Christmastime. The leaves reveal the lateness of the season, but most of the flower clusters were as bright and vibrant as mid-summer! It was a mild winter, but still – this colorful? At the end...
Shop Archival Prints This piece came from Paulettes’ photo – a rhody from her garden. As we looked through her collection of potentials, I kept suggesting she paint this one. Finally after the umpteenth “nah,” I sais, “I’ll paint...
The image that I used to create this painting was taken on a walk in Fairfax, not too far from where we lived. The tree was in its prime bloom, no spent blossoms. OMG – so gorgeous. Hardly anything says “spring” more than standing under and looking...
A very early painting – if you call it a painting – I named Full Spectrum was the jumping off place for this one. It occured to me back then I’d like to do something else with painting squares. The idea came years later: what if I took a reference...
Here’s one from a morning walk with our pup. We were across town in Fairfax, in front of friends Dean and Nancy’s old place. There we were, walking along, and something grabs me and know I HAVE to paint it. Look at the light bouncing off the shiny...
