Paintings - Landscape

Dawn, Chama River
(24" x 36" Oil On Canvas) This is from Chama River Canyon past Ghost Ranch. Occasionally I'll camp there so I can be up as the sun rises, which is pretty amazing. This is looking towards the east as the sun rises, with the valley partially obscured by fog.

Sunset, La Puebla NM
(11" x 17" Oil On Canvas) This is a sunset looking towards the Jemez Mountains in La Puebla NM

Neighborhood Sunset
(11" x 17" Oil On Canvas) This is a sunset near where I live. Our dogs have gotten used to me stopping and taking photographs while we're out on walks...

Cottonwood Trail
(24" x 36" Oil On Canvas) This painting is from a visit to Crestone, Colorado early last fall. The Cottonwood Trail heads up into the mountains and I was struck by this exquisite scene.

Cataract Creek 02
(37" x 57" Watercolor On Paper) This is a lovely area on the back side of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County in California. I was hiking very early in the morning and found this on the banks of Cataract Creek near Laurel Dell. The morning fog hadn’t cleared yet, and shrouded the distant trees in fog.

Morning, Aspen Forest
(18" x 24" Oil On Canvas) This is from a few days spent wandering around a lovely forest north of Flagstaff gathering images for a commission. This wasn't appropriate for the commission, but I really love the light and the mood.

Aspen Forest In Summer
(12" x 17" Oil On Canvas) This is an aspen forest near Aspen on the way up to Conundrum Hot Springs. It's a challenging (for me) 8 miles hike, but crazy beautiful the whole way.

Canyonlands

Winter, East Fork Jemez River
(21" x 32" Watercolor On Paper) A couple of winters ago, I went through the canyon of the Jemez River near Valles Caldera in New Mexico. I wore some cheap waders and some good crampons, as the landscape was filled with ice and snow. This is a watercolor towards the end of the day from pretty far in the canyon, but out of the rocks. I had been following a coyote for most of the way, and wanted to include his (her) tracks.

Summer Moonrise

Late Afternoon, Diablo Canyon

Morning, Aspens in Autumn
(16" x 20" Oil On Panel) This is a painting of a scene I found in the Sangre De Christo Mountains early one fall morning.

Fall Aspens, Late Afternoon
(12' x 18" Oil On Panel) This is late one fall afternoon in the mountains above Santa Fe.

Cottonwood on Chama River
(37" x 43" Watercolor On Paper) This is looking south in late afternoon in the Chama River Canyon near Ghost Ranch in late summer. It’s a really beautiful place, and I didn’t see a single human being this day. I love the rich quiet beauty here.

Fall Aspens
(18" x 24" Acrylic On Board) This is from a hike up in the Aspens in the Sangre De Christo range above Santa Fe in high fall. It’s almost hallucinatory to be surrounded by this intense yellow everywhere. I hadn’t dared to attempt this in watercolor, so was more willing to attempt it in acrylics.

Aspen Forest in Rain
(36' x 48" Oil On Panel) This is a painting from a hike in the Pecos Wilderness in the summer. I was up on Hamilton Mesa and got caught in a heavy rainstorm, and ended up standing under a tree for over an hour waiting for the rain to abate. As usual, I fell in love with the image and the mood, and as I started working I realized how challenging it would be. But by then it was too late!

Rio En Medio
(22" x 30" Watercolor On Paper) This is a little trail heading down from the ski area at Santa Fe in the Sangre de Christo mountains. It follows the stream called Rio en Medio, eventually down to the village with the same name. This is a little pool just off the trail. In this painting, I am playing with the idea of leaving the edges unfinished, a little like the way we perceive the world I think.

Rio en Medio 2
(22" x 30" Watercolor On Paper) This is another painting from the little trail heading down from the ski area at Santa Fe in the Sangre de Christo mountains. It follows the stream called Rio en Medio, eventually down to the village with the same name. This is a little pool just off the trail. In this painting, I am playing with the idea of leaving the edges unfinished, a little like the way we perceive the world I think.

Young Aspens in Fall

Conundrum Creek

Sunrise, Laguna Mesa

Fall Afternoon, Chama River
(29" x 57" Watercolor On Paper) This is from my first trip to the Chama River Canyon in early November. The sun was just going down as it illuminated the river and the cliffs in the distance. I go back here all the time; it’s a magical and usually empty area.

Morning, Steep Ravine
(12" x 18" Acrylic On Board) This scene is from an early morning hike up the Steep Ravine trail. I had already moved to Santa Fe and was working occasionally in San Francisco, and was pretty overpowered by how beautiful these forests can be.

Study for Aspen Forest in Rain
This is a painting from a hike in the Pecos Wilderness in the summer. I was up on Hamilton Mesa and got caught in a heavy rainstorm, and ended up standing under a tree for over an hour waiting for the rain to abate. This is a small study to figure out how to paint the rain falling.

Cottonwood Creek

Sunrise, Laguna Mesa

Dawn, La Junta
(11' x 14" Oil On Panel) This is where the Rio Grande meets the Red River very early one winter morning.

Morning, Red River
(11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) I visited the Wild River area north of Taos in winter and spent the night in a friend’s SUV so I could get up at dawn and hike down into the two canyons; where the Red River and the Rio Grande meet. This is looking up the Red River Canyon a few hundred yards before it joins the Rio Grande.

From Cataract Bridge
(42" x 55" Gouache On Paper) I lived in Fairfax for many years, and spent a great deal of my weekends hiking the back side of Mt. Tamalpais. One of my favorite hikes was around Cataract Creek above Alpine Lake. This is the view from the bridge crossing the creek, looking out over the falls.

Dawn, Point Reyes
(11' x 14" Acrylic On Board) I spent many years living and working in the San Francisco bay area. This is from a dawn mountain bike excursion into the forest in the coast range at Point Reyes. Just as I came to this spot the sun came over the ridge and hit the pine and bay laurel forest.

Morning, Baird Creek
(11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) This is a spring fed creek that feeds into the Chassahowitzka River in Florida, very early in morning. This is looking east just as the sun is rising. In the early morning (this was just after six am) it feels as close to Eden as anything I can imagine. Birds are all over the place, and no humans are around.

Morning, Chassahowitzka River
(11' x 14" Acrylic On Board) I have a childhood friend who lives a hermit’s life on this beautiful and generally unknown spring fed river on Florida’s west coast. It’s like going back 100 years or more. In the winter, because the air is colder in the early morning than the water, steam covers the river.

For Sue
(40" x 60" Watercolor On Paper) This is from an afternoon ramble in the redwood forest near Santa Crus across from the university, in what is now Wilder Ranch State Park. For may years, this painting hung in the offices where I worked to remind me that I wanted to be an artist again someday.

Rainy Afternoon, Chassahowitzka River
(11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) Rain was pouring onto me and my cheap waterproof camera as I took this photograph on the Chassahowitzka River in Florida in the summer, just as a mullet jumped in front of me. I grew up in Florida and kind of hated it once I was old enough to know what was going on, but this area is lost in time and is really special.

Nakasendo Trail

Marguerite and Barney

Laguna Mesa
(11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) This is looking across the river in the Chama River Canyon near Ghost Ranch in late afternoon. It’s a magical place, and I go back often. I rarely encounter any other people there.

Forest Above Flying Cloud
(9" x 13" Acrylic On Board) This a forest in Vermont just above the Quaker boy’s camp where I worked many years ago. I went back for a reunion and saw this scene as the sun was setting. This started out life as a (rather insipid) watercolor. I then glued it to a board and painted over it to bring it back to life.

Morning, East Fork Jemez River
(13" x 13" Acrylic On Board) This is from a very early morning hike along the Las Conchas trail in the Jemez Wilderness, It’s a beautiful hike that follows the east fork of the Jemez River through a valley surrounded by volcanic rocks.

Fog in Laurel Dell
(19" x 24" Watercolor On Paper) This is from an early morning wander up on Mt. Tamalpais. The coastal fog hadn’t cleared yet, and I loved the feeling of this creek bank with the bay laurels going off in the distance.

Aspens In Fall
(11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) This is looking down from the Alamos Vista Trail in the Sangre De Christo Mountains in early fall.

Brazos Cliffs In Rain
(18" x 38" Watercolor On Paper) This is looking at the Brazos Cliffs from highway 64 above them on a rainy summer afternoon. I love the feel of grandeur and the lushness of the mountains up there.

Study For Rio En Medio 02
(11" x 14 1/2" Watercolor On Paper) This is a study for a larger watercolor of the little stream called Rio en Medio. The trail of the same name starts from the ski basin above Santa Fe. It’s a lovely little trail, but since one travels downhill first, one gets sucked into traveling pretty far and then having to climb steeply back up.

Morning, Pecos River
11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) This is a from an early morning hike along the river in the Pecos Wilderness near Jack’s Creek. The sun had just come up and I hadn’t been there before, so I bushwhacked for a couple of miles before I saw a nice trail on the other side of the river…

Laurel Dell
(22" x 30" Watercolor On Paper) This is early morning in a lovely little glade on the north side of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County.

Early Fall, Alamos Vista Trail
)9 1/2" x 14" Watercolor On Paper) Looking out in early spring from trail above Santa Fe in the Sangre De Christo Mountains.

Creek, Czech Republic
16" x 29" Watercolor On Paper) I had some down time from a film shoot outside of Prague and found this little creek in the forest near where we were shooting.

Cataract Creek
(36' x 51" Gouache On Board) I spent many years hiking all around the back side of Mt. Tamalpais. This is from a late afternoon looking down onto Cataract Creek. It began life as a watercolor and then evolved, as many a failed watercolor does, into a pointillist gouache, which I then mounted to a panel.

Cataract Bridge
(29" x 41" Watercolor On Paper) One of the first trails I discovered when I moved to Marin county was the Cataract Trail up from Alpine Lake. This is the view from the top of the first section looking towards the bridge over the creek.

Sugar Maples
(22' x 30" Watercolor On Paper) This is a grove of Sugar Maples in spring in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont

North Fork, Tesuque Creek
(22" x 30" Watercolor On Paper) This is looking southwest in fall over the creek that cuts through Aspen Vista Trail

Sunset, Northern New Mexico
(11" x 14" Acrylic On Board) This is from near Chama in northern New Mexico coming back from Colorado as the sun set. I pulled off the road and just stood here for the longest time. It was very quiet and not a soul around.

Study for Cataract Creek 02
(9 " x 13" Watercolor On Paper) This is a study for a very large watercolor. I wanted to get some idea of what I was getting into before I started on the full painting. I was able to work more loosely here because of the permission that doing a study gives, and also played a little with not finishing the painting to the edge.

Blue Spruce In Fog
(18" x 24" Oil On Canvas) This is from a foggy walk up in the Sangre De Christo Mountains. The aspens up there are from a big fire in the late 1800s, and the blue spruce are slowly taking over again.