Forward to your friends and family, post on Facebook and hope to see you at these events or at the gallery!

This was a portrait has a very exciting story behind it. You will have to come to the gallery in Channel Islands Harbor to hear the details. Believe me, you will want to know!
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Commissioned for a surfer who surfed this beach for many years and wanted everything to be accurate about how he remembered it: the way the waves break, the plants in the foreground, and his wife and daughter in the yellow raft, offshore in the distance. Notice the surfer, hanging ten.

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On a bus trip across central Fiji, a very fast sketch when the bus stopped, noting each mountain top had its own cloud, I later did a painting from memory of the scene in the studio.
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This is a dreamscape. Somtimes I paint imagined images. There is a volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand called White Mountain. I liked the name and populated it with horses and multicolored trees.
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These beautiful creatures speak for themselves.

Original watercolor

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