"Mirage", oil on Canvas, 36" x 40", ©: 2009

Notes on this painting-

I continue to be fascinated by the reflections as opposed to the object.

"False Lead", oil on Canvas, 36" x 40", ©: 2009.

Notes on this painting-

Water over rocks and land and deep water/sky meet with boats.

"Floating away", oil on Canvas, 36" x 48", ©: 2009.

Notes on this painting-

It was hot in the studio and instead of plunging into a river, I plunged into a memory of the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont.

"Voyage to Antiquity", oil on Canvas, 36" x 48", ©: 2009.

Notes on this painting-

Voyage to Antiquity started off as another rendering of reflections in the water, got rained on by some white blossoms, encountered a barge, showered with an evening glow and transformed by a vase which brought on a memory of the painting "La Source."

"At the Creek", oil on Canvas, 11" x 14", ©: 2009.

"Golden River", oil on Canvas, 12" x 30, ©: 2009.

Notes on this painting-

This is one of four paintings that were made from compilations of photographs taken at dusk from a section of Corte Madera Creek in Kentfield, CA.

"Dusk at the Creek", oil on Canvas, 12" x 30, ©: 2009.

"Beyond the Bay", oil on Canvas, 12" x 30", ©: 2009

"In a Cavern", oil on canvas, ©: 2009, 12" x 30"

Notes on this painting-

I was working from a photograph that I had taken, altering things as I went along. Again it started from a reflection in the water, of trees of a riverbank and of a bench, but once I started adding the ripples in the water, the nature of the painting changed-becoming an image that was more three dimensional. My stand-in, the boat appeared and I left it like that, strange, odd and mysterious, forging into the unknown.

"Cove with leaves, flowers and branches", 11" x 14", ©: 2009, Oil on canvas.

Notes on this painting:

I was working with some reflections and wanted to include the random organic debris that floats on the water and so included leaves, flowers and branches continuing the dialog between abstraction and representation.

"Where land, water meet in dreams", ©: 2009, 11" x 14", oil on canvas.

Notes on this painting:

This painting is a kind of a merging of complete abstraction of water and a graphic overlay of the boat. The painting started from a walk I took at Phoenix Lake, then a series of photographs, an abstraction of the photograph and the placement of the boat. It is both an Abstract Landscape and representative, making it very much a contemporary landscape.

"Pond with flowers and a fish", 11" x 14, ©: 2009, oil on canvas.

Notes on the painting:

One of the photographs that I took while at Phoenix Lake was throug a murky part of the end of the lake, in a pond. There were several fish swimming around. When I was working on this painting I was thinking about how many things can be depicted in pool of water, the things growing in the water, the creatures swimming in the water, the reflections of things above the water and the plants and other debris floating on the water. In this painting I included the things in the water and on the water, continuing Abstraction with representation.

"Where it goes", ©: 2009, oil on canvas, 12" x 30".

Notes on the painting:

I was working on a completely different painting than what you now see. I had started painting a cherry tree in bloom, from a photograph I had taken in May of 2008 while in Vermont. But, I wasn't satisfied, so changed the painting, working again with water, with the flow of water, with branches, with reflections of sky, of plants underwater and allowing the some of the cherry blossoms to reveal themselves. The painting evolved organically perpetuating the past with the present as an example of nature landscape.

"Crossing over", Oil on board, 24" x 32", © 2009.

Notes on the painting:

It began in Vermont with the refelctions on the Gihon River on an overcast day. It was May and there was much rain that spring. Water pooled ever which way and I found my self traveling between the darkness under the water and the way the wind played with the river and the milky sky. The patterns of the water in paint transformed itself into a nature landscape.

"Pool", Oil on canvas, 36" x 48" ©: 2009.

Notes on the painting:

The river behind the dining hall in Johnson, Vermont was very inspirational, while I was there I did some paintings on site and I took many photographs that I would use as reference for future paintings. This painting was from a section of one of those photographs. I took delight in the various patterns of the ebbs and flow of the water in this water nature painting.

"Bridge", Oil on canvas, ©: 2009, 36" x 48".

Notes on the painting:

My studio mate Tom was always amazed to come into tmy section of the studio one day and then go home and come back the next and see a completely different painting than the night before when he left. Many of my paintings go through this kind of transformation, but this one had many lifetimes before I let it go into this incarnation. The branches are from influenced by a Chinese landscape painting, as is the waterfall and the graphic nature of the depiction of the water. The tree is from looking out the window at a tree across the street and the bridge is from a photograph that I took while on a a trip to Maui a few years back. The result is a contemporary landscape painting.

" Above, Below and Sideways ", Oil on canvas, ©: 2009, 24" x 32".

Notes on the painting:

Very often I will use a photograph that I have taken as a starting point for a painting, and this abstract landscape was one of those paintings-the way I shot the photograph revealed the reflections and light patterns of trees and rocks and sky from all kinds of angles, above, below and sideways.