New paintings from my garden series. 99 to 102 degrees this week. Today, a mere 88 and the first time I could stand to be out on the sun porch and paint. Monarda (scarlet bee balm) with trumpet daylilies, and a huge Mullein to rival the stalky succulents and Echium in Golden Gate Park. The [...]

Hommage Aux Pommes. Acrylic on canvas panel, 14″x16″ 2010.

June Gardens. Acrylic on canvas panel, 9″ x 12″ 2010. The painting was inspired by the riot of color in my gardens. Daylilies, roses, peonies and a wonderful dusky green mullein (verbascum) plant just beginning to bloom. Tropic of Capricorn. Acrylic on canvas panel, 9″ x 12″ 2010. This painting is both an homage to [...]

From June 7 through July several of my paintings will be shown in the Hudson Valley Gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. This is a ‘window’ gallery, one of the many alternative spaces for exhibiting work that have cropped up in the city. The circa 1920 building has been owned since the 1980′s [...]

A couple of new paintings inspired by all the songbirds who love my backyard. The returning cardinal was flashing his red in my apple tree this afternoon. Birdsong. Acrylic on canvas panel, 16″x20″ 2010. Strawberries keep coming despite the weediness of the beds. Like Ruth Stout, I have no intention of wasting time weeding while [...]

I’ve been eating asparagus out of my garden for the month of April – delectable sauteéd with garlic in risottos or with pasta in my homegrown tomato sauce. A real spring treat. And now the strawberries are coming on, my last frozen stash lasted through March. The collards and radicchio over wintered under the heavy [...]

The weather has finally turned. Today I sat in the sun studying, and later this week it might even be warm enough to paint on the sun porch. A few new works that I’m late in posting. March. Oil/canvas 24″x31″ 2010. Moderato. Oil/canvas panel 9″x12″ 2010. Forsythia Border in Snow. Oil/canvas panel 11″x14″, 2010. Winter [...]

This snow is wetter and heavier than any of our other storms, still coming down since last night. And I’d just gotten the driveway completely clear! The birdbath is close to being obliterated from the view…  Today it’s bread baking, soup making and thesis writing. Along with finishing up the newest snow paintings. All oil [...]

I wanted to paint more snow scenes, but we haven’t had enough lately. So this week I resorted to glaciers and memories of travels in Glacier National Park and the Columbia Icefields in the Canadian Rockies, north of Jasper in Alberta. Both spectacular national parks. It’s sad to realize that in less than 20 years, [...]

I began this painting with brushwork, but ended up slashing at it with a palette knife. Too bad I can’t post the highest resolution here because it’s pretty damned juicy. Photographs helped to document my  walks on mostly unpaved roads, winding through olive groves and farmland in the valley below the town of Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria.  There [...]