Pacific Influence

Pacific Seaviews Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Forest Inscape #35 Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Because This Buddha from the Shaolin Temple in China symbolizes the strong Asian influence on the Pacific Coast. Early Asian immigrants mined and built railroads along the U.S. West Coast. The 1972 TV show Kung Fu featured the Shaolin Temple in its storyline. Today, Asian communities on the Pacific Coast are large and thriving. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Keyhole Rock Fog The Keyhole Rock series was inspired when on a sail to the Channel Islands, a sudden storm began to brew around us creating a variety of dramatic atmospheric effects. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

The Open Gate I wanted it to be dreamlike. Like something you come across in a dream, in your dreams you don't usually see a lot of fine detail, it's the bigger picture that becomes clear. This painting was inspired by a ranch I visited on Smith Road in Oakdale. I had gone to a 4-H class with my granddaughter. The children were inside the barn taking a photography class. I was outside roaming around, when I came across this open gate. Something about it called to me. I felt a sense of longing--a loneliness-- if you will. Alone in this vast field. In my painting, I wanted the gate to vibrate with color. The glow gives it a sense of importance. Red is such a passionate color. I took the liberty of giving it an almost surreal color. It could be a gateway to anywhere--someplace in your dreams and your inner landscape, or just an open field on the Smith Ranch in Oakdale California. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Nothing is Permanent Except Change As I created these new works, I was keenly aware that every mark I made was made by one hand--my hand--and that the finished product would live and breathe as part of a world in which we all are tenants and that we all share. An expression is synonymous with Mother Earth, leading to our departure from the stations of life, our search for new noise and passion, and our empowerment and encouragement of change. In this conception, 'Nature' is not a source of material for production but the beginning and end of all life and culture. My work centers on the idea of being nowhere and everywhere, waltzing around cultural boundaries with beliefs and traveling through form and energy, attempting to incorporate conflict, balance, and harmony to shape the work's influences, thoughts, and hope for the same thing and shared moment. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Churning The ocean evokes a dynamic movement ever changing. The life like roots beneath the sea form a web of movement amd create an ever changing map. The rivers flow into the sea slowly or violently forcing change. My life on the west coast consists of the beach, mountains, streams amd forests that impress upom ones mind and mortal being. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Take a look down here I created a colorfield on YUPO paper using multiple watercolor media. I then created a litho background transferred to Rives BFK paper via my printing press. From there, I then created a collage from the colorfield by cutting it into shapes and placing it onto a plexiglass plate. From there, I soaked the paper and then transferred the collage images from the plate onto the paper, marrying the ink and litho into a completed image. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Petriochor The scent of the earth in the spring after the rain. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Not All Who Wander Are Lost oil on linen panel This painting was inspired by my son’s move to California for his medical residency. During a family visit to Big Sur, I watched him walk ahead on the cliffside trail, taking in the vastness of the Pacific and the rugged beauty around him. In that moment, the scene felt like a visual metaphor - a young man stepping into a new chapter, following a path filled with possibility. I wanted to capture both the landscape and the feeling: the soft California light, the sweep of the coastline, and the quiet courage it takes to walk toward an unknown future. The warmth of the grasses and the glow on the path reflect the hope and pride I felt watching him begin this journey from Augusta to California. This piece is both a memory and a blessing - an image of exploration, growth, and the beauty of moving forward. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

LA Discs acrylic on canvas When painting with acrylics my interest is in exploring the boundaries between abstraction & representation. I reduce the subjects to bold, simplified forms & create excitement & tension on the canvases. What does our sky look like to us throughout the day? Daytime to night time. What affects are the accelerated rate of heating of the planet, depletion of the ozone layer, bleaching of coral reef & extreme weather shifts having on our skies, our sun, our planet? The impact of these significant global events inspired the acrylic triptych LA Discs (Environments). Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

A Bright Future Lies Ahead... colored pencil: holbein colored pencil on illustration board My composition intertwines the realistic and fantastical worlds. This piece portrays the magical blend of childlike innocence with the spiritual power of illumination and self-awareness. The orbuculum is an object utilized in seeing things that would otherwise be invisible, yet with the eyes of a child, the world can be seen with an unfiltered genuine endless open mind, filled with joy, purity and void of self-consciousness. The fireflies and pondering orbs surrounding the young boy symbolize hope, goals, inspiration, guidance, creativity, self-awareness, faith, self-pride, knowledge and encouragement. Be intentional in the light that you seek in others and let your light shine so that others have faith in you. The light within us is the power of life. Let it guide an illuminated path to a bright and promising future that lies ahead… Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Working the San Joaquin Valley Watercolor Pencil, Neocolor ll, on Rives Bfk The migrant community is the foundation of Fresno County’s agricultural success. Located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Fresno is located in one of the most productive farming regions in the world, growing grapes, almonds, lettuce, and tomatoes. These crops depend on the skilled, dedicated labor of migrant workers—primarily from Mexico and Central America—whose efforts sustain billions of dollars in agricultural production each year. Beyond their labor, they enrich the region’s culture through language, tradition, and community life. During the four years we lived in Fresno, this community profoundly influenced my outlook and creative direction. It was my first experience living outside the East Coast and within a culture so different from my own. During that time I worked in a sheltered workshop training disabled adults from the migrant community to create slip-cast ceramics for sale at local farmers markets. Although I my job was to teach and supervise them, I learned far more from their strength, resilience, and quiet pride in their work. WORKING THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY reflects that experience. Through rhythm, gesture, and color, I aim to honor the people whose unseen labor sustains both the land and those who depend on it. Their endurance and humanity continue to inform my art, shaping how I see connection, perseverance, and beauty in everyday work. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Sway soft pastel on sanded paper 12 x 12 I live in Massachusetts by the sea but savor my visits to the sea on the west coast in my frequents visits to my California family. Needless to say, we have no palm trees so their grace as they move with the breeze has long fascinated me and inspired a series of pastel paintings which attempt to capture their dance. My preferred medium is soft pastel as I love their vibrancy and immediacy in my landscape painting. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Sierra Daybreak collage and acrylic on panel 12 x 16 I wanted to create an abstracted mountain landscape with expressive brushwork and a palette knife to suggest the feeling of snow, stone, and alpine foliage, using cool blues, soft violets, and mineral pinks, inviting the viewer to feel the mountain rather than merely seeing it. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Twisted Pine oil on canvas 16 x 16 This painting of the Torrey Pine stands as a reflection of my own journey, a testament to endurance, transformation, and the quiet strength that grows from surviving life’s harshest landscapes. With its twisted trunk reaching toward a bright, open sky, the tree becomes a symbol of the power to prevail, echoing the resilience we cultivate through struggle. The Torrey Pine is one of the rarest pines in North America, known for thriving in rugged coastal conditions where wind, salt, and shifting terrain shape its form. Its beauty is not born from ease but from challenge, and in that way, it mirrors the story of a life shaped by hardship, healing, and the determination to keep reaching upward. I see my own experiences reflected in its weathered limbs, each twist and curve an acknowledgment of the storms I’ve learned to withstand. The clear sky above is not simply a backdrop but a promise. It represents the hope that guides me through difficult seasons and the calm that follows when clarity finally breaks through. Over time, I have learned to honor both the light and the struggle, understanding that the hard moments carve out the space for growth, depth, and compassion. This piece celebrates the beauty that emerges from perseverance and the strength gained from surviving with an open heart. It invites viewers to see the grace in Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Breathless refractured watercolor on upcycled panel, gallery wrapped, with acrylic glaze 32 x 32 Dawn off my back porch looking east across the Salton Sea. Also contains the following Shakespearean sonnet I wrote for it: Breathless We oft forget the power in the air until the moment that it is denied; then we recall the instant we first cried and know that our next gasp's without compare. We often curse the wind that whips us clean as blowing us and all our things away; we fear trees that will fall instead of sway and rarely stop to think this storm will mean there is a reason behind the sky that raged with passion, then left softness in its wake with pastel colors reflected in the lake, and recognize our lives are somehow changed. At sunset or at dawn, then we can say This was a day that took our breath away. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.