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      • Del Norte
      • Humboldt
      • Mendocino
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8 days. 16 miles hiked. 16 paintings. 2 times police pulled up behind me and just sat and watched. 1 shipwreck. 1 barbed wire fence crawled under. 1 tiptoe around a barrier to a closed trail. 1 tick found crawling up my neck while sleeping in my van in a shopping center parking lot. 1 more tick found burrowing into my arm the next night while sleeping in a friends RV.




Painting the California Coast: Volume One

A coffee table collection of artwork and notes from the field after 15 years of painting up and down the Entire California Coast.

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More or Less

Original Size: 20" x 16"

I saw an old man reciting poetry to the seagulls here. They waited on his...

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Mourning and Remembrance

Original Size: 16" x 12"

By day they theorize, philosophize, and lay their eyes on this predicament from old lawn...

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The Sea Before Dark

Original Size: 12" x 16"

A focal point for those just passing through. After miles of inland panoramas the road...

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Leave No Trace: Side A

Original Size: 12" x 12"

Arrival: Late Afternoon.  Look west, hike to bottom of trail. View from top was better....

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Leave No Trace: Side B

Original Size: 12" x 12"

Arrival: Late Afternoon.  Look west, hike to bottom of trail. View from top was better....

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Economy of Scale

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Geology trips me out. They always say that the large rock formation at the mouth...

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Hole in the Fence

Original Size: 16" x 12"

Under the barbed wire, across a bluff top meadow, promising lines appeared bending around the...

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Most Wanted

Original Size: 16" x 20"

I’d been wanting to paint this stretch of coast for years. It’s not a place...

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Maybe Another Time

Original Size: 16" x 12"

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B.Y.O.B.

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We came in search of gold. We’ll leave with pockets full of solitude. We speak...

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We’ll Cross that Bridge When We Get to It

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Under the authority of a king in Europe, there is land in California, owned and...

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Dressed in White

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Not a fun place to attempt to park this huge van… Drive around, drive around,...

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Stick a Fork in It

Original Size: 20" x 10"

I’ve been on the road for 2 weeks now. I’ve slept in my van in...

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A Matter of Convenience

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Chumash land: just the way it always was… Spanish imperialism: all of your earths is...

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Machine Work

Original Size: 20" x 10"

A bit of old California here. Not too many places are left like this along...

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Avoiding the Evil Leaf

Original Size: 20" x 10"

Some days are easy, other days you have to dig deep. Those are the days...

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