California Archives

Over the Moon

Original Size: 54" x 36"

A slice of California, a view from an elevated state… It’s not always outdoors and...

Morning Gems

Original Size: 48" x 24"

Much like with many of my paintings, there are no humans visible in this piece....

California Spring

Original Size: 60" x 36"

20 things I’m thankful for in the middle of this storm…⠀⠀A life spent exploring this...

Sunrise Over the Cove

Original Size: 20" x 24"

First Light

Original Size: 32" x 22"

Surf Check Daydream

Original Size: 48" x 24"

The first art teacher I ever had used to always tell us that all art...

Poppies and Pointbreaks

Original Size: 16" x 40"

Waiting for His Master

Original Size: 36" x 24"

The Blessing of the Fleet

Original Size: 32" x 16"

Who of us isn’t a ship about to leave harbor?  When the anchor is pulled ...

Ghosts of 1963: Salvador Dali, His Wife, The Witch, and an Absolute Bomb

Original Size: 66" x 30"

While researching reference material for this studio work, I came across a photo of Salvador...

The Shack

Original Size: 48" x 36"

Waxing Moon

Original Size: 36" x 12"

My favorite story about this one isn’t my story at all. It’s something a Patagonia...

Rise and Shine

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Painted this one on location close to home on a November morning back in 2019....

Bird’s Eye View

Original Size: 30" x 24"

Twentytwenty

Original Size: 36" x 18"

Twentytwenty doesn’t need much introduction. We’ve all been caught in this storm. That’s what this painting...

Buzz Buzz

Original Size: 30" x 15"

Afternoon on the Coast Route

Original Size: 60" x 30"

This is one of the first paintings I painted of this location. I’d go on...

May Grays

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Out from herSlumberEyes blinkingAt the newly minted greensOf a silver spring day The forest is...

Down by the River

Original Size: 36" x 18"

Chipps and Salsa

Original Size: 36" x 24"

Honored to be selected as the official event artist for the 2015 Luau & Legends of...

For Those with Ears to Hear

Original Size: 48" x 24"

This piece gets personal for me. It’s a prominent headland on a stretch of California’s...

Chasing Gold

Original Size: 48" x 24"

It’s funny. Here is one of the major epicenters of California. You’d think that, given...

Study Break

Original Size: 60" x 30"

Always fun to paint from 500 feet up. UFO view of kelp beds, bending lines,...

Bread and Butter

Original Size: 16" x 20"

Nothing to Get Mad About

Original Size: 36" x 18"

The Low Road

Original Size: 40" x 30"

Daybreak

Original Size: 60" x 30"

A fine lineDivides the pursuitOf overwhelming joyFrom sheerAnd loathsomeIrresponsibility The high tide lineDividesThe rest Consider...

House of Prayer

Original Size: 48" x 24"

These trembling walls danceWith their Maker’s invisible spiritAs we wage war on tomorrow’s past Victory...

Just Before Sunset

Original Size: 20" x 16"

One of those summer evenings that make you just feel like life could always be...

Say Nothing

Original Size: 36" x 24"

The land that lay directly behind me as I painted this distant view from one...

Slot Machine

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Line after lineAnd jewel upon jewelThese beams of lightBearing weightAs well as witnessTo our memoriesLost...

Land Rights

Original Size: 20" x 16"

To step foot on these shores is to step back into an older CaliforniaPreserved in...

Everyone is Listening

Original Size: 20" x 16"

My final painting of this trip. I recently read about the family that home-steaded this...

Free Range #25: Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Odometer: 1,151.9 miles Tonight was a victory for the mobile studio van. I often paint...

Right Before Breakfast

Original Size: 16" x 12"

I’m not a “morning” person, I am however a “whatever-magic-is-in-the-light-in-this-particular-place-right-now” person so it worked itself...

The Entry Way

Original Size: 20" x 16"

A fine late-winter day on our local coast. It doesn’t get better than this around...

Almost Home

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Some islands are formed by water, some are formed by the long standing legacies of...

You Go Left, I’ll go Right

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Just the Basics

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Written on March 24, 2020 Back when I painted this one and called it “Just...

I Shall Be Free

Original Size: 20" x 16"

The third of three paintings from a quick trip last summer. The titles for the...

California Storm

Original Size: 36" x 24"

We came to this mountain in search of goldWe’ll leave with pockets full of solitudeWe...

When the Ship Comes In

Original Size: 20" x 16"

The ship has sailed And with it your lover Stolen away So you live like...

Above and Below

Original Size: 24" x 30"

Shoebox Series I

Original Size: 30" x 40"

The Shoebox Series was inspired by a friend’s shoebox full of old surf photographs he...

Precipice

Original Size: 20" x 16"

My sister loved this beach⠀With it’s small rocks worn smooth ⠀Tumbled in their own strange...

The Banquet

Original Size: 60" x 40"

Dust and Ashes

Original Size: 36" x 18"

The poppies and buckwheat bloom Little fires that have jumped the hearth Right out from...

October Groundswell

Original Size: 36" x 24"

Rising and falling like the tideAnd yet they are surprised when their stocks don’t rise...

Over And…

Original Size: 36" x 24"

No Vegetarian Options

Original Size: 20" x 16"

2nd day on the road, 5th painting completed, 3rd one of the day There’s a...