Title:  Spider House Morning
Description: I had the great pleasure of visiting this unique home designed by John Moyer, which overlooks the Coachella Valley from Pinyon Crest, early one morning as winter was giving ground to spring.  It was a genuine treat to watch both the day itself, and the season of Spring, unfold from this porch. Moyer.
Provenance:  2006     Collection of the Chedester Family
 

Title:  Above Tonnerre
Description: During my visit to Tonnerre, I had the great fortune of getting to explore the village by dogging the heels of one of its residents, following the paths and walks, shortcuts and alleyways he'd used his entire life.  It was a wonderfully intimate way to be in such a place, to feel for a moment an inkling of what it was like to live there.
Provenance:  2005     Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $300

Title:  The Petite Gleaner
Description: On the steps of St. Pierre Cathedral in Tonnerre', France, a friend's daughter is completely caught up in the colored confetti left over from a recent wedding; still at the age when "this or that" polarities haven't begun to restrict her world.  While the adults talked about how old the cathedral was, and how much repairs cost, and other practical topics, Charlotte gathered leftovers from a celebration, on an overcast day; a small handful of color for each of us.

Provenance:  2006 Collection of the Artist
Status:  Original Available -  $6,500

                  Giclee' prints (limited edition: 99 available) - $300

Title:  Farmhouse Near Tonnerre
Description: This painting captures my first impression of a family friend's farmhouse outside of Tonnerre, France, and my first experience of French hospitality - warm and graceful.  The door is ajar, and our hostess is watching our arrival even as she effortlessly prepares a simple and magnificent 6 course lunch for us - everything is 'just so' without looking like any effort was needed.
Provenance:  2005     Collection of the Blot Family
Status: Giclee' prints (limited edition: 245  available) - $250

Title:  View of Mme. Fouquet
Description: It seems very easy to reduce historical persons, particularly those held in disdain or contempt such as the abusively wealthy pre-revolution French aristocracy, to mere two-dimensional characters.  But while touring the Château Vaux Le Vicomte, I realized that the history of this place included an extremely painful loss for Nicolas Fouquet’s wife – the loss of her home.  This window parallels the view from her bedroom window, looking out onto the gardens that had been designed with her in mind.
Provenance:  2005     Collection of the Simonds Family
Status: Giclee' prints (limited edition: 248 available) - $250

Title:  The Gourmets
Description: The heart of an authentic French meal is the bread, fresh from the bakery that day. It's aroma triggers reminiscences about childhood and feasts, not to mention meals to come. Just the act of purchasing it triggers an anticipation that rivals that of any child awaiting Christmas morning.
Provenance:  2006     Collection of the Artist
Status: Giclee' prints (limited edition: 98 available) - $300

Title:  The Supper At Emmaus
Description: Inspired from the account in Luke 24:13-35, in which Christ appears to two disciples shortly after the resurrection, and though he explains the prophecies for them, they do not recognize him until he makes the very familiar and ordinary gesture of breaking bread:
"30When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?" - - - 35Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread."

This is a story that has been portrayed repeatedly over the course of western art.

Provenance:  2006      Collection of the Artist
Status: Original available - $17,500

Title:  Above the Reef
Description: I've always had a deep love of marine biology, growing up on Jacques Cousteau, Sea World and National Geographic.  Recent events, including the destruction of an entire reef system, inspired me to put to paper some of that wonder these beautiful places inspire in me.
Provenance:  2007     Collection of the Vermillion Family
Status: Sold

Title:  The Mill at Moret-sur-Loing
Description: On my trip to France, I had the pleasure of being shown about by French friends of the family.  As a result, I got to see many places I would not have discovered had I relied on guidebooks, like this mill.

Provenance:  2007     Collection of the Simonds Family
 

Title:  Peach Arabesque
Description: This composition of fresh peaches, cockatoo feathers and a hand thrown pot (made my sister) was inspired by my Mollucan cockatoo Leila - not only does she love peaches as food and toys, she has peach colors in her feathers, including the shed crest feathers in the composition.  And the pot - well, for some parroty reason it is irresistible to her and has be kept out of her reach at all times.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the
Status: Sold

Title:  Vaux Pause
Description: My trip to France, particularly the countryside around Paris, initiated a tremendous transformation – including restoring my sense of spontaneous fascination.  This painting captures one of the first moments during that trip when I was simply struck by the beauty of something for no concrete reason – there’s no signage on this kitchenware, it is not the point of the displays in the kitchen beneath the Chateau – but this niche and its contents made me stop

Provenance:  2005      Collection of the  Artist

Status: Available - $3,900

Title:  Peach Attitude
Description: Since keeping things that are not parrot-proof, like fresh peaches or shiny  pottery, out of Leila's clutches is something of a dance, a destruction tango she leads; in both of these paintings I've used the crest feathers to suggest ballet positions - arabesque and attitude.
Provenance:  2007      Collection of the
Status: Sold