'KALAHARI' 60' X 60' OIL AND BEESWAX ON PANEL BAOBAB TREE IN BOTSWANA Painting when you feel different creates different paintings. I wanted to make a painting that felt like but not necessarily was a representation of the feeling of Botswana. The rawness and extreme...

AMAZING PLANT FORMS.... Just returned from a month in Africa. Jen and I brought our two daughters Lyla (14) and Hannah (12). Besides seeing amazing animals on Safari we spent some time volunteering at The Esibonisweni School, an Elementary School in South Africa. It...

"Tangerine" 60" x 60" oil and beeswax on panel. #8309 Paintings waiting outside to be picked up by the delivery truck. Clearing out the studio of all the paintings I have been working on for Santa Fe. This orange one, done last and as “extra credit” is my favorite....

  This was the last painting I squeezed in for my recent show in Santa Fe. It has some of the qualities of looseness and richness of color I am after….painted without thinking–yes.

The organic gardens at Esalen. A demo painting done at Esalen Some of the class of 2008. This years workshop was tremendous. 18 people came together and we painted till late into the evening for a week. I always find it so hard to get away to do these workshops but as...

#8302, #8303, and #8304, finished. Many other paintings going on besides these but I have to free up time for the dog who waits all day long outside my studio door to go running. Maizy, rescued from a kill shelter in Oklahoma. Forever grateful, she is wonderfully...

#8283 Finished Still going, ended up destroying the middle one for something else… Been very busy now for several weeks. Posting these after the fact….seeing paintings that were covered over that were pretty good. Making it difficult just to make it difficult.

#8302, #8303 and #8304 #8305 #8283 Getting 8305 close –not quite sure yet.

Continued on these 5 paintings.

#8302, #8303, and #8304 #8305 #8283 Today about 15 new panels arrived. So I started in on some new ones a set of 3 24″ x 24″ and a 36″ x 40″. The green striped one, 8305 is quite hideous at this point but I just wanted to get something down to respond to later after...