Another large painting! These Graham Thomas roses grow in the same garden as the persimmons I’ve paintied. I was in our Fairfax neighbor Jen’s garden down the street late in the afternoon one day in early this summer to take photos of her Queen Anne...
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...
My work is in direct linage to the art made by Joseph Raffael. A painting of a cluster of pale roses with pink edges called “Roses Reverie” that came in an email knocked my socks off – and kicked off a hunger in me to paint something like it. Photos...
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...
This early painting really frightened me. It’s the second earliest here in this gallery. It was drawn on the watercolor paper for over a year before I put a brush to it. These roses were growing at the AARS test garden at Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma. I have...
The photo that inspired this painting was taken in the garden at friends’ Dean and Nancy’s home when they lived in Fairfax. It’s an Abraham Darby rose and became the earliest of my paintings here on my website. It’s also my first “fuzzy...
