These roses hung down towards my face from a trellis in a rose allee in the Jardin de Plantes. It was a trip back to Paris, in late May, 1998, before I’d really begun painting in earnest. Yet, the photograph stayed with me, telling me to paint it, already! I... 
This early painting really frightened me. It’s the second earliest here in this gallery. It was drawn on the watercolor paper for over a year before I put a brush to it. These roses were growing at the AARS test garden at Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma. I have... 
The photo that inspired this painting was taken in the garden at friends’ Dean and Nancy’s home when they lived in Fairfax. It’s an Abraham Darby rose and became the earliest of my paintings here on my website. It’s also my first “fuzzy... 