Like a giant and soft watercolor with a spiritual quality that changes with the ambient light.
I think about the 4,000 mile solo hitchhiking trip I took in 1972 to West Coast and back.
All bark and no bite…um, maybe not.
Spring runoff and seven lace-like waterfalls.
A metaphysical moment in nature where no human can deny the serenity and beauty of nature.
We are all on our way somewhere. All things are on their way somewhere.
Full blooded intensity of big nature sky and water.
The Hubble telescope locates a great nebulae…with all the same elements that comprise our planet and our bodies.
Investigating the certain clarity of glass…
American farmlands have been the bedrock of so many families with the same American dream.
I guess they are friends of the shark, until they aren’t.
The power of big nature based on elements of the South Pacific.
Contemplative and calming. Part of the “Sun Series" of paintings.
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.
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.
On the horizon is the flat and wide bay.
In moviemaking parlance, “magic hour” is that alluring transition from afternoon to evening — twilight — when the world of our perceptions changes.
Early morning mist over the ocean.
Dusk in Austin, Texas produces those alluring high desert scapes, the dust amplifying the end of daylight.
Feels familiar, were we there?
A Berber man composing his headwrap in the wind. A commission by a fellow traveler to the Sahara in Morocco.
A fanciful intergalactic event.
A special moment if you are lucky enough to witness.
The sky above and the sea below filled with life.
Like a dream, some things seem familiar and make sense while others are somewhat magical that might not make sense in the awake state.
The Amazon region is a place of life filled with all kinds of colorful critters.
Where you will go after living a good life.
Storm moving out to sea.
I am always impressed by a stand of trees. All part of the same family no doubt. Fascinating.
Urban industry and city living.
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.
Painted after a major surgery reaffirming my love for the beach and ocean swimming.
From a deep place in the unconscious describing an untouched place of serenity in deep woods.
The ultimate charm of the American Midwest landscapes.
Trees in perfect synch with each other. Are they all related? They must be.
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.
A Matisse favorite blown up to giant size.
The beach, where it all begins and ends for me.
A golf course on the moon???
Showing her best Fall colors…
Irish coast inspiration.
Three sentinels posted at the edge of the continent…
Everything is changing, the light, the mood.
Three stalwart trees guarding the point.
I know there is one in there somewhere.
Something powerful about the confluence of two great bodies of waters.
From the cool green depths to the sky...
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.
Wish I could…
The warm morning glow of dawn in summer, a signal of a new day with fresh possibilities.
One of a series of paintings of the ever-shifting dunes in the Moroccan Sahara.
I have no idea how this title came to be. But It is a soothing painting.
Visiting the Amazon region in Peru makes you think all kinds of new thoughts.
Hundreds of thousands of parakeets swarming at dawn preparing to cross the water into the rainforest for the day’s events.
The sun, the focus of all life on our planet.
The Amazon rainforest is a striking and emotional place teeming with life, mystery, beauty, and danger.
End of a long day, time to take stock of all the good things that happened.
Felt like it painted itself on its’ own.
A moment of stunning beauty, as the mighty Delaware River snake it’s way though rural Pennsylvania on it’s way to the Atlantic.
The flat landscape of the East End of Long Island produces calming images of reverie and quiet.
The birds of the Amazon are ubiquitous.