In case you may have noticed, nature is a significant source of inspiration for my art and life.
Some years ago, I created an art manifesto to describe how the living world is a taproot for my creativity. It grew to include aspirations for my paintings, designs, and writings.
During the last couple of years, I’ve spent a lot of time walking on a beach with towering bluffs in my neighborhood.
An invitation is an autobiographical portrait using objects.
Rolling hills, rocky cli!s, windswept dunes, wide expanses of grasses and groves of trees inspire the geography I paint.
Temporary guests that give more than they receive, flower bouquets radiate a vitality, a life force. A bunch of blooms express nature’s bounty and fleeting beauty.
The 10 illustrations in the Sun-Kissed Petals and Green Stem series pay homage to gifts of flowers. Each little garden in a vase captures a celebration of good times shared.
Some of the most compelling images of the LA fires were shot on the freeway near the Getty Museum and Bel-Air during the morning commute.
I can’t help but think of the phrase the winds of fate when I consider the ongoing Northern California wildfires.
It wasn’t until I took a road trip one spring day in college that I began to understand the meaning of the word beauty. We were driving from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Goshen, Indiana to check out an Amish dry goods store.
I am pleased to announce that I will be having a gallery show of my latest body of work, The Sustainability of Beauty. The purpose-filled art illuminates the wisdom of nature and global environmental challenges.
The trails, wetlands, beaches, bluffs, meadows and gardens in Golden Gate Park, the Presidio and Land’s End in San Francisco are my ‘neighbors’ as well as endless sources of inspiration for my paintings and drawings.