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...
I’m participating in Silicon Valley Open Studios this year in San Jose, California. If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll come and visit my new studio. I’ve been super busy spiffing my paintings up; varnishing and framing them for...
My painting, Synergy with Birds of Paradise, has been accepted for the Spring (In)formal Silent Auction Fundraiser by School of Visual Philosophy. The auction will help fund the purchase of new equipment at the School, including something near and dear to my heart...
