Shop for Archival Prints The spirit of this painting has been patient and faithful. The grapes are Zinfandel, from my friend Sue’s ranch in Cloverdale. After Zintopia, it’s my second painting from there. The way this patch of grapes is postioned on the...
Contact Me For Details 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...
The path to a painting is rarely direct—especially this one. It began with a photo I took in early fall 2008, just a year after I started showing my art. I was driving back from an errand at the North Bay Gallery in Sonoma when I spotted white grapes along Highway 12....
Shop Archival Prints Zinfandel grapes from a new vineyard! When my brother Mike and his wife Julie sold their house I lost my source of Zinfandel grapes to paint. Where I was going to find them when I could no longer pop by to see my brother and sister-in-law. I...
On a sunny Sunday morning, driving home from an overnight at a campout my husband goes on every August, in my peripheral vision on the side of River Road, were these grapes. Their orange color stood out – orange grapes? I pulled over on the lumpy-grass shoulder...
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...
