One bright summer day, as I headed out to our side yard to dump the compost bucket, the color of these Rugosa Roses grabbed my eye. I ran back out with my camera and hopped up on the rock wall to capture the flowers. Honey bees had come flying around – such... 
Another large painting! These Graham Thomas roses grow in the same garden as the persimmons I’ve paintied. I was in our Fairfax neighbor Jen’s garden down the street late in the afternoon one day in early this summer to take photos of her Queen Anne... 
Here’s my first attempt to go big. It is my second painting of my brother Mike’s zinfandel grapes . Mid-Summer Zin, my first, was a hard act to follow. At the time I painted this, it was a huge stretch And I worked on it fiercely to get it done in time... 
When Joe and I go to Kauai, I take walking trips around Poipu with my camera, hunting for painting subjects. These waterlilies are in a resort garden. This image intrigues me because of the various elements it represents — below the water, above the water and... 
L’Hay les Roses is an absolutely phenomenal, even overwhelming rose garden in a suburb south of Paris. I visited it one Saturday in June, several weeks after arriving in France in 1996. It had been gray and cloudy since I’d arrived. This was the first... 