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December 2012
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Nov 2011
The title of the painting is a play off the title from a winter painting done in the same area a few years ago titled "Come Back Wilbur."
I am usually traveling during the best of the Fall season so made up my mind this year to do a major painting from life before the leaves were gone. This painting is a graduate study in unity and variety. Being a "flat light" picture with very little shadow I had my challenges with defining form and making strong bits of color take their place in the distance. Sometimes odd challenges pique my curiosity, like the dried-out pond in the foreground or the plastic wrapped hay bales in the middle distance. Anyway, regardless of all of the subjective choices I make in a painting, the truth of nature always keeps me in a humble place.
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
Just Off 'Q' 27" x 40" - Oil on Mounted Linen - $20,000
It's rare for me to come across a place that I can paint repeatedly and find new excitement each time. Fourteen years ago I painted this homestead for the first time, and have been coming back ever since. This time I felt compelled to paint a large version on site, in an effort to record the farm before it actually sinks into the ground.
From a painting standpoint it was a study in what I refer to as "optical painting" in other words, when focused on a given area, what does one perceive through ones peripheral vision. Hence a studied simplification away from the area of interest.
Shimmering Avalon 18" x 24"
Oil on Mounted Linen - $8,200 - SOLD
Woodsmoke & Wet Sawdust 18" x 24"
Oil on Mounted Linen - $8,200 - SOLD
Rural Electrification 24" x 30" - Oil on Mounted Linen - $13,000 - SOLD
Sept 2010
Paintings of Yosemite: Past and Present
These three paintings are currently at The North Point Gallery in San Francisco, part of an "exhibition of contemporary and past masters."
Cape Cod Paintings Summer 2010
These paintings are simply a labor of love for me
Summer 2010 Small Works Collection
These paintings are simply a labor of love for me
June 2010
Spring 2010 Art Crawl Collection
Friday Only, April 23rd 5pm-10pm
Nine paintings sold during the show, thank you to all who stopped by!
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New Portrait
New Commission
March 2010
Feburary 2010 - Sold Out Show
"Preserving Santa Catalina Through Art"
Hosted by Roy Rose
Since these were all sold in Santa Catalina,
they were not all able to be professionally photographed.
January 2010
December 2009
October 2009
August 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
Catalina "Postcards"
Series of small paintings, created January 2009
California Art Club Gold Medal Competition
10th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational
Tree's Place — "A Less Obvious Beauty"
