This page features rotating paintings that I want to highlight. I will be sharing some of my favorite paintings and telling you a bit about them.

The current three paintings featured were all completed en plein air at Point Reyes National Seashore or along the San Francisco Bay. Each of these paintings uses thick layered paint and color to capture the movement of place. The paintings are representational, but also abstract and tactile, striving to capture the sense of existing in a place and drinking in the shifting colors, sounds, and texture.

“Shifting Shoreline” Was completed at Kehoe Beach which is near the north point of Point Reyes. This paintings is 36x48 inches and I carried it down to the beach which is a bit of a hike. The waves crashed in and out at times spilling over the crest of sand along the beach to create little pools of water. I wanted the painting to convey the sense of movement and the ever changing nature of the shoreline—in—and out. 

“Orange Cliff” is a rather small painting for me. I enjoy the challenge and physicality required to complete a large canvas on location, so I typically opt for large canvases of 30x40 or lately even 36x48 inches but this piece is a mere 12x16. I wanted to capture the simple stature of the cliff with the sun smacking off of it. In this piece each stroke matters. I was particularly fond of the thin strip of white which is just enough to suggest the lip of the water gently rolling onto the beach below the cliff.

“Receding Light” was painted about a mile from where I live in Point Richmond at Miller Knox Regional Park on the San Francisco Bay. Across the bay is Mt. Tam. To the right of Mt. Tam is the suggestion of the RIchmond Bridge which connects East Bay to North Bay. This was painted shortly after sunset. Clouds hovered over the Bay and the upshot of light after it had set below the mountain turned the clouds a deep orange red. The clouds then reflected the light across the bay with ripples of orange against the deep blue of the Bay.