L’Hay les Roses is an absolutely phenomenal, even overwhelming rose garden in a suburb south of Paris. I visited it one Saturday in June, several weeks after arriving in France in 1996. It had been gray and cloudy since I’d arrived. This was the first...
These roses hung down towards my face from a trellis in a rose allee in the Jardin de Plantes. It was a trip back to Paris, in late May, 1998, before I’d really begun painting in earnest. Yet, the photograph stayed with me, telling me to paint it, already! I...
Shop Archival Prints Paris Gallery This painting is close to my heart. In the late summer of 1995 I left a very difficult 14 year marriage. Days after leaving I wrote in my journal I wanted to live and work in Paris. The next spring I moved to Paris to work for a...