Sometimes I don’t know what I am feeling until I see it. I’ve been working on a new painting for a while now and have discovered some old feelings that were really there all along but somehow I just didn’t recognize them. Painting can be not just about what you see and how you apply [...]

My painting, “Pool,” will be part of the upcoming show, “Speaking of Solitude,” at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 500 Palm Drive, Novato, CA 94949, September 4-October 3. Reception, Saturday, September 11, 4-6. Juried by Maria Medua, Director of the SFMOMA’s Artist’s gallery. Everyone is welcome!

I will be showing “Where Land and Water meet in dreams” in the show CAL IF OR NIA, juried by Ruth Braunstein and Shannon Trimble, at Cabrillo College, Room 1002, Building 1000, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA, August 30-September 24. Reception: Sunday, September 12, 3:00-5:00 PM.

Besides teaching my Drawing and Painting Workshop, I’m also teaching a Plein Air Class. Plein just means that you are painting outdoors. Class starts September 11th and runs through October 16th, Saturdays from 9:15-12 noon. Plein Air painting is an entirely different experience from working in the studio in that the light is always changing, [...]

Well it’s that time again, my Painting and Drawing Workshop resumes at College of Marin through Community Education on Wednesday nights, 6:40-10:00 PM, starting September 8th through October 13th and then again October 27th through December 1st. This class is designed for both beginners and more experienced students. The class runs for six sessions, and [...]

In the flesh refers to the fact that I’ve recently brought over several contemporary landscape paintings to the SFMOMA’s Artist’s Gallery at Fort Mason, Building A, in San Francisco, right next door to the the renowned “Greens” restaurant. So if you have a hankering to see my nature landscape paintings, maybe rent or purchase, you [...]

Over the 4th of July weekend I had two separate discussions with two different artists-that lead into each of them putting forth their idea of what constituted being an artist and consequently what then constituted good art. Both of these discussions were casual and each statement made in the moment. The first artist, Jack Scott, [...]

Since I use landscape as a jumping off place to reach into the unknown, I started thinking about how one (me) can start off thinking about going in one direction and wind up in another. I’ve just completed five paintings that were derived from a photograph that I took down by the Corte Madera Creek-a [...]

Somehow I’d convinced myself that I’d gotten separated from myself, from my painting from the mere fact that I’d been living and that certain aspects of living had taken my attention away from a contemplative life. Can you separate your daily practical life, that such as buying food, paying bills, cleaning the kitchen floor, tidying [...]

Sometimes you can be dead for a long time but not know it. Despite working in an academic environment and despite consistently working in the studio, I’d say I’ve been brain-dead about art for about 20 years. There have been a few exceptions, such as when I got into a reading jag of art history [...]