Everything is changing, the light, the mood.
Like a giant and soft watercolor with a spiritual quality that changes with the ambient light.
A metaphysical moment in nature where no human can deny the serenity and beauty of nature.
Early morning mist over the ocean.
I have no idea how this title came to be. But It is a soothing painting.
The Amazon rainforest is a striking and emotional place teeming with life, mystery, beauty, and danger.
Storm moving out to sea.
Hundreds of thousands of parakeets swarming at dawn preparing to cross the water into the rainforest for the day’s events.
Felt like it painted itself on its’ own.
I think about the 4,000 mile solo hitchhiking trip I took in 1972 to West Coast and back.
Visiting the Amazon region in Peru makes you think all kinds of new thoughts.
Three stalwart trees guarding the point.
I know there is one in there somewhere.
I am always impressed by a stand of trees. All part of the same family no doubt. Fascinating.
The warm morning glow of dawn in summer, a signal of a new day with fresh possibilities.
I started this painting with no preconceived notion of what it would be, but like the mystery based in nature that it became. The title was inspired by Zen Master Alan Watt's book.
Painted after a major surgery reaffirming my love for the beach and ocean swimming.
On the horizon is the flat and wide bay.
Like a dream, some things seem familiar and make sense while others are somewhat magical that might not make sense in the awake state.
A special moment if you are lucky enough to witness.
The beach, where it all begins and ends for me.
The flat landscape of the East End of Long Island produces calming images of reverie and quiet.
Urban industry and city living.
The power of big nature based on elements of the South Pacific.
Where you will go after living a good life.
A golf course on the moon???
I guess they are friends of the shark, until they aren’t.
Something powerful about the confluence of two great bodies of waters.
Sometimes a painting is made and lives for many years and then the artist chooses to obliterate it and create something completely new and different…although there can be ideas from the previous painting that survive. This is true for this painting.
Irish coast inspiration.
In moviemaking parlance, “magic hour” is that alluring transition from afternoon to evening — twilight — when the world of our perceptions changes.
The sun, the focus of all life on our planet.
A Matisse favorite blown up to giant size.
I, along with a group of people, once witnessed a series of UFOs in the night sky over Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, NY. We had many questions, but very few answers.
All bark and no bite…um, maybe not.
End of a long day, time to take stock of all the good things that happened.
A fanciful intergalactic event.
The birds of the Amazon are ubiquitous.
Spring runoff and seven lace-like waterfalls.
American farmlands have been the bedrock of so many families with the same American dream.
Dusk in Austin, Texas produces those alluring high desert scapes, the dust amplifying the end of daylight.
The sky above and the sea below filled with life.
Floating things makes sense but not in waking state.
A landscape I never actually experienced in life came alive on this canvas. A deep sense of peace and serenity. All is right with the world here on Cherry Lane.
Trees in perfect synch with each other. Are they all related? They must be.
We are all on our way somewhere. All things are on their way somewhere.
The ultimate charm of the American Midwest landscapes.
A moment of stunning beauty, as the mighty Delaware River snake it’s way though rural Pennsylvania on it’s way to the Atlantic.
Full blooded intensity of big nature sky and water.
Contemplative and calming. Part of the “Sun Series" of paintings.
Feels familiar, were we there?
One of a series of paintings of the ever-shifting dunes in the Moroccan Sahara.
The Hubble telescope locates a great nebulae…with all the same elements that comprise our planet and our bodies.
A Berber man composing his headwrap in the wind. A commission by a fellow traveler to the Sahara in Morocco.
The Amazon region is a place of life filled with all kinds of colorful critters.
From a deep place in the unconscious describing an untouched place of serenity in deep woods.
Off in the distance living their best tree life, undisturbed except for conditions which they are designed to endure. Such a great sense of peace.
