Riverbend in Autumn

Riverbend in Autumn
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

New Paintings 7.21.10

Abstract Poppies on Blue
Original 72" x 36" painting
Three 24" x 36" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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St. Lawrence River Looking Towards Canada from Jacques Cartier Park
Original 18" x 24" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Riverbend at Sunset
Original 18" x 24" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

New Paintings 11.24.09

Autumn Moonrise XI
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Tall Red Trees X
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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View of the Hudson River from Olana at Sunset (Commission)
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My newest work includes new editions of my popular Autumn Moonrise and Tall Red Trees compositions, and a commission of my composition View of the Hudson River from Olana at Sunset for my friends at The Croff House Bed and Breakfast in Hudson, New York.

Quote of the Day
"You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment."

Thich Nhat Hanh

New Paintings 11.3.09

Autumn Yellow Forest
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Sunset on the Hudson River, Looking from Olana
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Mountains Beyond the Quaking Aspens
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Moonrise X
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvases

Busy week completing some commissions, getting new commission orders, and painting for my sales venues. These paintings are variations on and new editions of some of my signature compositions and reflect the beauty of the autumn season as the leaves start to dwindle on the trees.

Quote of the Day
"Waking up this morning I smile.
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Work This Past Week

Rocky Mountain Sunset IV
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Oriental Blossoms XVII
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Path XXIII
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Aspens VII
Original 24" x 30" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Poppies on Blue Sky XIII
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Early Summer Sunrise II
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Daisies and Red Vase V
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

I've devoted most of the past week to painting these pieces, as well as working on commissions. These paintings are all new editions from many of my popular compositions. The Autumn paintings are inspired by the coming change of season, to which I look forward with great anticipation.

Quote of the Day
"Even the best psychologist will tell you...that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful." --Anthony de Mello

Sunset Near Durango

Sunset Near Durango
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes a new composition inspired by the beautiful scenery near Durango, Colorado. I received a lot of new commission orders over the weekend, and am very pleased about that. Thank you patrons!

Quote of the Day
"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another." --Dalai Lama

Today's Paintings 6.30.09

Red Trees VII
Original 72" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Three 24" x 30" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Sunset IX
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Sunset on the Bay
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes new editions in the Red Trees and Autumn Sunset series. These have been a popular composition among my patrons. The red paint in both paintings really pops when they're hung on the wall. I also painted a new composition: Sunset on the Bay.

I'd also like to announce that I'm selling my work directly from my web site. All of my newest work will be listed there, in addition to my sales venues. Please visit my web site view all of my latest work that's currently for sale.

Quote of the Day
"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." --John Maxwell

Rocky Mountain Sunset III

Rocky Mountain Sunset III
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes the latest in the Rocky Mountain Sunset series, a popular landscape composition among my patrons.

Mountain Sunset II

Mountain Sunset II
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Atelier acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

This composition is popular--so much so that it sold on one of my sales venues less than 24 hours after listing it. So I felt compelled to paint another one today in the hope that history repeats itself on the sales front--not to mention the fact that this composition is fun to paint.

Quote of the day: "Words and ideas are only useful if they are put into practice." --Thich Nhat Hanh

Today's Paintings 3/27/09

Prairie Sky at Sunset II
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Atelier acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Mountain Sunset
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Atelier acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's paintings use sunset themes and were inspired by photographs from friends and my husband. Both Mountain Sunset and Prairie Sky at Sunset reflect dramatic skyscapes that are fun to paint and which my patrons like very much.

Quote of the day: "I am an artist… I am here to live out loud." --Emile Zola

Monument Valley Sunset

Monument Valley Sunset
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Atelier acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Two summers ago my family and I went on a vacation--our Southwest Odyssey--through Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. This painting was inspired by the truly awesome beauty of the landscape at Monument Valley in Arizona. This painting won an international award on Art.com last year in their Places competition--one of fifteen awards given.

I am fortunate enough to live in the West where the stark beauty of the desert is only a few hours driving from my home in Golden. It never escapes me each and every time I travel in the West what a privilege it is to be so close to such awesome beauty, and to be able to transform my photos and memories of those places into paintings.

Quote of the day: "I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock." --Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Recent Work

Prairie Sky at Sunset
Original 30" x 40" 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas


Red Poppies on Yellow VII
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas


Still Life with Daisy Bouquet and Red Vase V
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's paintings are variations on two of my favorite compositions: the floral Red Poppies on Yellow series, and the abstract landscape Prairie Sky at Sunset. The third painting is one I painted a few days ago, and is a very popular still life in the Still Life with Daisy Bouquet and Red Vase series.

One of my patrons who owns a restaurant in Vail, CO purchased the previous iteration of the Daisy Bouquet painting along with a painting in the Flower Garden Against a Yellow Sky series, and a painting in the Fauve Farm series.

I worked on the Alaska commission more today, and should get that painting finished tomorrow. I'll be sure to share a photo of the finished painting with you.

Quote of the day: "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough." --Toni Morrison

Today's Paintings

Sunrise Poppies IV
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Bouquet with Striped Cloth IV
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's paintings include two of my favorite compositions that my patrons also enjoy very much. I've done several iterations of the Sunrise Poppies series in recent months, but this is the first time I've done it on a large canvas.

The Bouquet with Striped Cloth series was the first painting on my blog, and it sold within a day or two after I listed it.

One of my patrons who's opening a gallery in Brooklyn bought a painting today, and has two other paintings he's bought from me rented out to a large law firm in New York. This is the piece he just bought:

Looking Back at Gallup at Sunset
Original 30" x 40" x 1.5" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Quote of the day: "It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures." --Vincent van Gogh

Rocky Mountain Sunset

Rocky Mountain Sunset
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

I did manage to get this original painted today, in addition to a lot of reproduction work for other patrons. My commission work has picked up, and I've had a burst in sales during this past week. I'm pleased to say that this painting met the reserve price on eBay within a couple of hours after I listed it. I hope that this week is an ongoing trend in terms of my sales.

Quote of the day: "I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can." --Andy Warhol