I love love love Plumeria! The first scent of plumeria starting to bloom makes me absolutely giddy. I actually purchased a selfie stick so that I could take photos of my neighbors' plumeria trees, luckily they know the crazy lady on the sidewalk trying to get up and above the blossoms on their trees. It's a deceptive flower to paint, only 5 petals in a pinwheel pattern, ...
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Driving back towards the ocean after a trek to see a waterfall, I was blown away by the sky, a dynamic sea of movement horizon to horizon. There was a big storm system some bit to the north of us and clearly there was a lot going on up there in the stratosphere. And then there was this very solid old tree, it's weathered a lot of weather ...
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My family & I had the chance to get out on the water last winter on a boat offering snorkel tours and a bit of whale watching. I learned so much about local marine life and the challenges facing these very fragile ecosystems. This is Kealakekua Bay, one of the places spinner dolphins sleep in the afternoon, leaping in and out of the water while first one side ...
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One of my favorite places to visit is the Fishpond at Kaloko Honokōhau, a place steeped in history and tradition. The magic of a full moon evening is imagined here on the leeward side of Hualalai. This painting was composed using the Golden Rectangle. Oil on canvas, 21x34" $995.
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SOLD Living on the side of an active volcano has given me a whole new perspective on mountains. I'm very attached to Hualalai, it's a beautiful little mountain, the smallest one on this island. I get to see it daily, and am enamored with the shifts of light, the clouds that come and go sometimes obscuring the mountain altogether. This was painted on a rather damp morning ...
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On the eastern tip of the island of Oahu is this amazing point looking out towards Makapu'u Beach. As we stood there admiring the view, a family walked out past the viewing area, past signs warning people not to walk past the viewing area, and placed their daughter basically on the edge of a cliff with loose rock to get a better photo. Hawaii is beautiful and dangerous, it has an ...
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I loved this parrot's expression, coy, intelligent, and just a bit vain. He (she?) was a joy to paint. I treated the image with a series of very loose washes, only adding the bits of detail in the feathers at the very end. This is a watercolor on 140# Canson paper, 9x12" SOLD
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I wanted this work to exhibit a certain nostalgia, a sense of any-afternoon any-era kind of light. This is from a photo, circa 1980 something-or-other, of pineapple fields near the North Shore of Oahu.
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“Four Sisters” new oil on canvas. I loved seeing all the volcanoes of the Big Island by air recently, Kilauea is the only one missing from this angle. Hualalai seems so small nestled between her big and little sister volcanoes. Oil on canvas, 18x29" SOLD
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It's true, palm trees are a godsend to painters. They move, they dance, they shimmer with light, a big quivering focal point ready to help define a summer sunset with tropical poetry. This piece is yet unnamed, it's 22x30", watercolor on pretty awesome paper, Fabriano to be exact. SOLD
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