Title:  The Garden Gate
Description: At The Living Desert, in Palm Desert, California, there is a garden that seduces lucky gardeners into the xeroscaping lifestyle - lush, water efficient or drought tolerant gardens that welcome native wildlife and provide color and inspiration throughout the year.  The gateway in this painting invites you to explore a vibrant garden without grass, primroses or petunias.
Provenance:  2006     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $400

Title:  The Garden Gate
Description: At The Living Desert, in Palm Desert, California, there is a garden that seduces lucky gardeners into the xeroscaping lifestyle - lush, water efficient or drought tolerant gardens that welcome native wildlife and provide color and inspiration throughout the year.  The gateway in this painting invites you to explore a vibrant garden without grass, primroses or petunias.
Provenance:  2006     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $400

Title:  The Garden Gate
Description: At The Living Desert, in Palm Desert, California, there is a garden that seduces lucky gardeners into the xeroscaping lifestyle - lush, water efficient or drought tolerant gardens that welcome native wildlife and provide color and inspiration throughout the year.  The gateway in this painting invites you to explore a vibrant garden without grass, primroses or petunias.
Provenance:  2006     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $400

Title:  Pinyon Crest
Description: Overlooking the Coachella Valley is a cluster of homes build high on the mountain, nestled in folds of the mountain covered in granite boulders and Piñon pines.  This painting brings together the three main elements of a recent afternoon there - the sculptured granite boulders, charismatic pines, and the distant mountains.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $900

Title:  The Garden Gate
Description: At The Living Desert, in Palm Desert, California, there is a garden that seduces lucky gardeners into the xeroscaping lifestyle - lush, water efficient or drought tolerant gardens that welcome native wildlife and provide color and inspiration throughout the year.  The gateway in this painting invites you to explore a vibrant garden without grass, primroses or petunias.
Provenance:  2006     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $400

Title:  Olive Trees
Description: Recently I spent a very pleasant afternoon painting plein air at a very quiet and cordially secluded Palm Springs country club.  This entranceway, painted with the homeowner's permission, reminded me of the relaxed yet warm welcome I found there.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available- $400

Title:  All But Forgotten
Description: A short distance down the trail at River Bend Park, the remains of an abandoned railroad bridge  stand over the Feather River, in Oroville, California.  This was painted plein air, in late October, and I enjoyed exploring the contrast of the fall colored gold leaves of paper birch trees with the evergreen scrub oak and pines, something I see little of in sage desert of southern California.

Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $900

Title:  Desert Spring
Description:  On February 16th this year, I attended the Wildflower Celebration 2008 at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center.  This beautiful site provides stunning views of the Coachella Valley, and I was particularly struck by the contrast between the protected areas of the valley, just blushing a soft silver-green of spring  growth after recent rains, and the more intense green of the developed parts of the valley.  I have hopes that a balance can be found between these two ways of life.
Provenance:  2008      Collection of the Artist

Status: Original Available $900

Title:  The Bath House, Oroville, Ca.
Description:  On the Feather River, in Oroville, California, there is a fish hatchery working to protect native salmon and trout, and from its parking lot, I found an inspiring view of an old stone building, which turned out to a bath house built by the WPA in the 1930's.  Now used as a Nature Center, it is nestled among native trees, including buckeyes and scrub oak.  This was painted plein air, in late October.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Simonds Family
Status: Sold
 

Title:  Canyon Afternoon
Description: A scenic and colorful ravine runs through the Mecca Hills at the East end of the Coachella Valley, Box Canyon, by name.  I spent a very pleasant afternoon with friends exploring the geology, wildflowers and wildlife in this canyon.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Spears Family
Status: Sold

Title:  Canyon Afternoon
Description: A scenic and colorful ravine runs through the Mecca Hills at the East end of the Coachella Valley, Box Canyon, by name.  I spent a very pleasant afternoon with friends exploring the geology, wildflowers and wildlife in this canyon.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Spears Family
Status: Sold

Title:  Smoke Tree
Description: Painted plein air during a recent visit to the Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs California.  In addition to truly spectacular views of the local foothills and mountains, the Ranch is home to a stunning and mature collection of  native plants, including Smoke Trees.  When not gracing gardens, Smoke Trees are found in the washes and canyons of the Sonoran Desert, and their unique appearance has become a signature image of the American Southwest - the billowing and curling smoke from a smoldering fire in the distance, that is actually a tree.  Desert residents know that the real glory of the Smoke Tree requires sticking around for the weather to heat up, for in late Spring or early summer, the cloud of smoke is transformed into a vibrant mass of deep, glowing purple when the trees bloom.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the
Status: Sold

Title:  Anza Borrego Dusk
Description: People from up north have asked - isn't it boring, living in the desert?  I invite them to come visit.  My yearly visits to the washes and trails of anza Borrego are always inspiring.  This particular painting captures the moment when we realized, far out along Split Mountain Trail, that it was getting time to head home.

Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $3,900

Title:  Anza Borrego Dusk
Description: People from up north have asked - isn't it boring, living in the desert?  I invite them to come visit.  My yearly visits to the washes and trails of anza Borrego are always inspiring.  This particular painting captures the moment when we realized, far out along Split Mountain Trail, that it was getting time to head home.

Provenance:  2007      Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $3,900

Title:  San Jacinto Dusk
Description: I've been fascinated all winter this year, watching the sun get caught up in clouds trickling over the lower ranges of the local mountains, particularly in the evening.  I especially love the moment when the sun dips behind a bank of clouds or fog, but before it goes behind the mountain proper, the way the cloud is lit from behind, the first hints of the color transformation about to take over the sky.
Provenance:  2008     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original Available $580

Title:  San Jacinto Dusk
Description: I've been fascinated all winter this year, watching the sun get caught up in clouds trickling over the lower ranges of the local mountains, particularly in the evening.  I especially love the moment when the sun dips behind a bank of clouds or fog, but before it goes behind the mountain proper, the way the cloud is lit from behind, the first hints of the color transformation about to take over the sky.
Provenance:  2008     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original Available $580

Title:  Garden Center
Description: Plein air rendering of the demonstration garden at The Living Desert, in Palm Desert, CA.  This oasis of greenery teaches visitors that a water-responsible garden, in the desert, can be vibrant with color, alive with life, refreshing, cool and healing it nature.

Provenance:  2007      Collection of the  Artist

Status: Available - $900