Wildflowers in the Mist

Wildflowers in the Mist  40x60" thrown and splattered paint on canvas
sold
Wildflowers in the Mist was a commissioned piece by one of my collectors. Her mother had recently passed away and left her a little money, she decided the best way to honor her mother was through one of my paintings. She honored me as well.
The painting is from a foggy walk near my home. I stopped to enjoy the spiritual feeling at a fog enshrouded vista, where only the wildflowers were visible. The rest of the earth trailing off behind a veil of fog. The fog tamped down any extraneous noise and all I could hear were a few birds while I gazed off into the softened vista. 

Beverly Hills ArtShow , Blue Heron Farms

 Blue Heron Farms   5x4'  thrown and splattered paint on canvas
Beverly Hills ArtShow 2019 booth #413
sold
This painting is an image, an essence, of my neighbor and friends massive Jacaranda tree that graced her terraced yard. She owned an organic farm and bed and breakfast on our hill and we use to sit on the porch that faced this tree, having coffee and breakfast. She tried to train me to know all the birds on our hill, I was a very sad failure at remembering all their names. But I will never forget the time she pointed out the waxwing pair in this magnificent tree.
There was not enough canvas to give this painting the true essence of magnitude, nor the shower of petals that reined. This one is going to the show. It is a really beautiful painting, that does indicate the technique of 'throwing' along with the experience of that wonderful yard (those are her prize white roses in the distance).

Beverly Hills ArtShow May 18th/19th Beverly Garden Park

Southern California Super Bloom 24x48" thrown and splattered paint on canvas 2019
Beverly Hills ArtShow May 18th/19th  booth #413
The bloom was so spectacular this last spring, it was tempting to paint numerous times, and I did. This painting captures the poppies as well as the lupine and the snow capped mountains. Being a larger canvas, allowed me to give this painting more depth as the lupine recede into the distance. What appears fairly straightforward, isn't however. This painting probably has 10 or more layers. All the paintings have a number of layers but this was excessive as I nuanced the colors of the wildflowers to give depth and reality. My goal is to achieve the essence of the subject, not photo realism. At times, perfectionism can dwarf the objective of impressionism and the chaos of the technique, I try to retain.

Beverly Hills ArtShow 2019

After the Rain  36x48"  thrown and splattered paint on canvas  2019
Beverly Hills ArtShow 2019 May 18th/19th  booth #413
After the Rain has had a couple different incarnations as wildflowers. The first was a bit too contrived. The more I look at the wildflowers, the more chaos I observe, that coalesces into the image of a consistency the mind makes up. After the Rain is a bit more wild, which also helps to insure that technique of throwing the paint ( sticks are used to give the streams of paint, brushes are used to splatter), is obvious in the outcome. After the Rain and it's incarnations have taken two years to arrive here.