Early morning in one of California's most beautiful spots.  Paint on location.  Oil on linen mounted on gatorboard.

Oil on linen mounted on gatorboard.

This is from a backpacking trip.  This glorious view was how I was greeted the first morning as I looked over Lake Chickenfoot in the Red Rock Creek section of the eastern Sierra.  This is oil on linen, mounted on a gatorboard panel.  Framed in a silver leaf plein air style frame.

As a continuation of my obsessive exploration of grand skies and extreme lighting conditions, this piece explores the experience of a remarkable and unique moment in time.

This little shack out on the end of an old fishing wharf caught my attention for a painting.  Oil on linen, painted plein air.

Glowing vibrant skies have been the subject I'm most drawn to in this body of work.  This piece continues my exploration of this subject, juxtaposing purple clouds against an orange sky.  I integrated water into the foreground largely so that I could reflect the sun and balance out the composition.  Done from memory, this piece was completed over a number of painting sessions as the image slowly emerged from the canvas.

This imagined landscape is a channeling of years of different painting experiences.  Of late I've been starting paintings with only vague mental images of where I want to go.  Much as authors describe how characters they've created later take over and write the story themselves, these paintings take on a life of their as they develop.

As I continue to explore deconstructing light and the landscape, I continue to find greater and greater possibilities in the liberties I can take while still capturing that inner luminosity that is always so elusive.  This piece is a fine example of an abstract exploration can still glow with inner light.

This is oil on stretched linen.  It's on gallery wrapped 1.5 inch deep stretchers, and looks great hung unframed (as-is).  This can also be framed.

I've been pushing my work further and further towards the abstract.  I'm after deconstructing the landscape, while still capturing a luminous quality of light.  This combination require a fine balancing act, but when it works I think it creates something very special.

View of San Francisco, spanning the iconic Transamerica Pyramid building to Coit Tower.

I painted this from Treasure Island looking back at the city on a crisp clear morning.

This is oil on linen mounted on gatorboard.  I'm selling this unframed.  If you like to discuss framing options, give me a call.

I painted this on a trip to Tomalas Bay near one of the oyster shack restaurants.  I love this area.  It feels like a trip back in time, and this this old farm out on a private peninsula looks like it probably witnessed the gold rush here in California.

This is an oil painting on gessoed gatorboard.