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 [...]

It’s rare that I see where my work ends up, but my most recent patron was kind enough to send me a photo from her Blackberry. Her living space is perfect for the painting and I’m happy to say that she’s pleased as well. The piece was created from a trip to a remote cabin [...]

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 [...]

Another new painting from my series based on Walt Whitman poems. THE VOICE OF THE RAIN, Walt Whitman. AND who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable [...]

I’ve started a new series of small works, the first of 2010 is based on a Walt Whitman poem, the title a phrase from his “One Hour to Madness and Joy” from his ‘Leaves of Grass’.   ‘O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!’…..   Mystic Deliria, oil on canvas panel. [...]