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 be in booth 310, not too far from the entrance to the show. “November Gold” is one of the new pastels I will be premiering at this event. Hope to see you there!
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"Red Shutters" 19x25 Pastel
"Water Tower at Mid Day" 23x31" Pastel
The question of what a painter chooses as subject matter can sometimes be compared to an author. The best writing tends to come from what you know. I’ve been concentrating on landscapes for years more on than off and as my surroundings have changed so has my focus and direction. I started painting in Southern California and my early work dealt with that light and color sense. I also lived in the suburbs so I found inspiration in suburban architecture. Living in the Bay Area of California opened me up to the carved and othewise altered landscape of vineyards and farmland which for me was like stepping to an abundant waterfall of inspiration. Living in Humboldt County for the past 8 years has opened me up to a different sense of light, mood and terrain. I love the muse my area provides yet I still am drawn to the geometry and colors of the vineyards that pepper the landscape from California into Oregon. This is my visual playground and with my road trips and ever burgeoning photo library I have a plethora of imagery that continues to call me. While I am usually excited about a recent expedition to go into the studio to explore I return often to trips and images from my past and revisit them in the studio. There are many times I do not know what I am going to be painting on a particular day. I visit my Iphoto libarary and a sequence of images will speak to me visually and I am on my way.
Here are some recent paintings. I have been hooked on rural architecture for months now, segueing back into vineyards. Other new pastels are posted in the Pastel Library and under Rural Architecture.
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"Yellow House at the End"
My 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.
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Kennedy 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 book!
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