Its festival season and this year I will be participating in three, starting with the Los Altos Rotary Fine Art Show this coming weekend, May 15&16. I have been participating in this show for a decade and in addition to having met a lot of incredible people, I’ve placed my work in more private collections than I can count in Los Altos and the surrounding area. Los Altos is very special to me and I’m looking forward to seeing all of my friends this weekend! If you are in the area I encourage you to come by. I’ll...
read moreWhen I was a kid one of my favorite artists was Andrew Wyeth. I had a bookon his art and I remember studying it and admiring the beautiful starkness of mood he was able to create with his gorgeous watercolors and egg tempera paintings, two media that I myself delved into “back in the day.” Later it was Edward Hopper who I meditated on with abandon. My dear friend from art school, Terry Jane and I flew to San Francisco from L.A. to see his retrospective at SF’s MOMA in 1981. We still laugh because we had to carry our...
read moreIn November my husband and I visited a favorite inn in Ashland Oregon, the Ashland Mountain House Bed and Breakfast. This was our second trip at the same time of year. We love the area in Southern Oregon and the rich fall colors of the landscape there. My previous series revolving around Litha Park were created from there and I continue to reach into my vast array of photographic files and sketches to create studio paintings. Interestingly from all of the beautiful landscapes I have captured on film, this little composition from the...
read moreIn December I finished a commissioned painting – a 30×40″ pastel depicting the land and view of Mt. Diablo from the Emerson Dairy property in Oakley California. I met Trish Emerson at the Sausalito Art Festival and she told me about having grown up in Oakley and the Dairy was in her family for generations going back to the late 1800’s. Ironically enough, I had lived in the same area from 1989 through 1999 and was familiar with the arid landscape that exists there. Now, the last of the land, property and buildings had...
read moreMy recent pastel painting “Yellow House at the End” received a “Best of Landscape” award at the 52nd Annual Spring Exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA this past weekend. This is one of a continuing series I have been developing over the past few years of compositions from local alleys and street views from the area in which I live. The juror for this event was Debra Lehane, curator of the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation in Geyserville, CA.
read moreWe recently delivered and installed a three piece pastel painting commission to new collectors in San Francisco. Their home, which they completely restored, was stunningly beautiful inside and out so it was an absolute joy placing my work in their surroundings. This is the same commission discussed several posts earlier. I’m confident that they were happy with how everything turned out. Custom framing was done by Art Brokers Inc. in Sausalito.
read moreRenowned Publicist and online marketing maven Anne Marie Baugh is featuring an interview with me on her site Whopple.com I am so delighted to have met her and that she is currently featuring me on her site which is devoted to highlighting and promoting fine artists and their work. Thank you Anne...
read moreKennedy Publishing has posted the entire Vol. II of Best of America-Pastel online. To view the portal page to the book click HERE. To go directly to the section of the book where my pages are click HERE. I am on pages 73-74. The actual book can be ordered directly from the Publisher. Thank you Kennedy Publishing for inviting me to showcase my work in this beautiful...
read moreFor the last 6 weeks I have been working on a series of commissioned paintings for new collectors in San Francisco. With the 3 paintings successfully completed, approved and now being framed I am now in the preparation stage for the next commission. My San Francisco patrons have been wonderful to work with and the process has gone as smoothly as I could possibly hope for. I promised them at the onset that working with me to have their fine art dreams realized would be a rewarding adventure and I did not want to disappoint. When...
read moreFamed Humboldt County author Terry McLaughlin is featuring my pastels on her new website . Terry is a celebrated romance novelist. Visit her...
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