I found these roses in a corner of a friend’s garden. Yummy tropical-punch colors, and a combination of the back side of one rose – no less compelling than the front – and the ¾ view of another, catching the light just so. In the early spring of 2016,... 
This painting has quite a story. I’ve written a whole post about it in my journal. I started it on a trip to Kauai in 2013 then abandoned it until early in 2015 when I realized it needed a color scheme change. What was mostly red turned into a lot more pink and... 
The evening sun on these roses pulled my car over to the side of the street. Good thing there were empty spaces at the curb at St Raphael’s Church in San Rafael! After a brief thought about my impulsiveness, I hopped out and took a bunch of photos. One of them... 
Shop Archival Prints It doesn’t rain often while roses are in bloom in the San Francisco Bay Area. When I took this photo, we had a real downpour in early June. It was a Saturday and I was outside, barefoot in the mud and still in my PJ’s taking pictures... 
There’s something about the time of year.when we come out of winter. I had just painted something with more muted colors making me crave bright, intense, warm colors. A year before as I came out of winter, I painted Awakening, Joseph’s Coat roses growing... 
My husband’s friend, Uncle Bill, as we called him, had a collection of beautiful roses out front of his house on Magnolia Ave in San Anselmo.. Some of them are so old their gnarled trunks look like olive trees – and they are never more beautiful than in... 