“What location inspired this landscape?” is a question I’m often asked. When I try to explain that there’s no specific place involved and my paintings just sort of come oozing out of my head, I get some odd looks. I need a better way to explain...
I spent the first weekend of this month, August 2019, in the basement of the NUMU Art Museum in Los Gatos, California. No, I wasn’t locked away in some sort of artists’ purgatory suffering a horrible punishment for my artistic crimes. I was attending the...
Sunday was Stroll the Alameda in downtown San Jose and the School of Visual Philosophy was a stop for both beer and wine tasting. My art studio, as you know, is inside the School of Visual Philosophy. What an amazing location to be in! Many of the artists, myself...
What do a bar of soap and Mark Rothko, famous American artist [1903-1970], have in common? Together, they inspired my series of oceanscape abstract paintings. The soap – a simple bar with two layers of color, a sandy tan and an aqua blue, sitting in a palm tree...
Joanne Weir is responsible for this painting – indirectly. I happened upon an episode of Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class on PBS just as she was concocting a big pitcher of sangria. It was a hot summer day, so it was probably a re-run playing, but it was the...
