My friend Myrrh Haslam and I drove an hour and a half northwest of Houston to an area of rolling hills for some painting. We first spotted a beautiful little barn with a white roof that seemed to almost glow in the overcast sky. We set up in front of an abandoned building and painted […]

11″x14″  Yellow Field            SOLD I am making preparations for a solo show at the Cloister’s Gallery here in Houston. I hang my work on March 21st and the show will be up for a month. This painting, which I call “Yellow Field” is one of the paintings that will be in the show. When our

I am so pleased to announce that the Jack Meier Gallery here in Houston is now representing my work. This actually happened in November but for the last couple of weeks the front window has been full of my work! In the photo above there are two small landscapes on the left, a 30″x30″ bulldog

For Christmas Eve dinner we had my mother, my sister, her husband and their two children over. We spent some time making a wonderful turkey dinner with all the fixings, which has been the tradition in my family for Christmas Eve since I was a child. I had the dining room table all set, but

Merry Christmas! Here is Santa Claus whom I painted a few years ago. This painting was painted from a model, a sweet who grows his beard each year to play Santa at Christmas here in Houston. I hang him each year for the month of December. This year though, he got his very own frame.

My friend Denise Rose, a fellow blogger and wonderful artist, was at the American Impressionist Show in Indianapolis this weekend and e-mailed me this photo she took! She said “there’s a big red dot next to your painting!” Thank you Denise for taking this photo and sending me the image. What a nice surprise! While

  Three Apples     $700 click on image to enlarge This is a 12″x16″ oil on canvas that I painted from life in my studio. This is one of my favorites. I love the paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Edvard Vuillard and was inspired by their use of color on this one. I also like the

Early Morning Downtown Houston   NFS click on image to enlarge This is an 8″x10″ oil on canvas painting of downtown Houston. I painted a study plein air a few days ago and used that, along with a photo I took, to paint this painting in my studio. This time I narrowed my colors to mainly