Pomegranates, Jacinta’s Garden

Pomegranates, Jacinta’s Garden

Shop Archival Prints In October 1996, at the end of my half a year in France, I traveled throughout Europe for two weeks with two of my brothers, Matt and Mike. We met my parents on the Croatian Island of Brac, where my grandparents were born.  Brac is a rocky, arid...
Twin Dahlias

Twin Dahlias

This is painted from an image from my stay in France in 1996. I took a long weekend on my own in August to tour the chateaux along the Loire valley. There was an amazing and fascinating garden exhibition near one of the castles. These dahlias were growing in one of...
Apple Blossom Spring

Apple Blossom Spring

Dear friends Dean and Nancy lived for many years in a sweet house with an even sweeter garden. This is their Gravenstein apple tree. The configuration of the branches along with the delicacy of the apple blossoms in full bloom were the thing. Of course, I’m also...
Moonstone Rose

Moonstone Rose

My work is in direct linage to the art made by Joseph Raffael. A painting of a cluster of pale roses with pink edges called “Roses Reverie” that came in an email knocked my socks off – and kicked off a hunger in me to paint something like it. Photos...
Persimmon Rain

Persimmon Rain

Shop Archival Prints On the street leading up to our Fairfax house a persimmon tree hangs over a neighbor’s fence. At the time I painted this, my husband, Joe and I had been living in this neighborhood for several years. Every fall, as I went by it, I thought I...