Part of a series: A Day In The Garden 2. If you look closely, you can see the purple heart-shaped flower part in the center of her every flowerhead. The royal purple, even here. After all, someone has to guide the bees.

Have you ever looked close-up at rosemary in bloom? The honeybees go crazy harvesting my giant bushes. It's a noisy but friendly place, several times a year.

Basil is an old and dear friend in my garden. Whether I make pesto or not, I grow lots every year. I love the shape and luscious texture of her leaves, and how her shadows make puppet shapes on the ground.

These beautiful heirloom flowers flood the garden with color and scent for weeks during the summer. I think they have many stories to tell over generations and continents traveled. Listen.

Although this original painting has been purchased by a collector, prints are available in my print store in a variety of sizes.

In the chaos of early spring, these little encroachers grace me with fragrance and color, and the promise of things to come.

Gouache on 6" x 8" handmade paper, presented on acid-free foam board 16" x 20" 

These small paintings are a series literally from my own garden, where I get to see the most amazing things in any gardening day.

Oregon coast beach grasses at twilight cut through to a strip of sundown colors beneath the cloud layer.   Small plein air painting. We peer through the ubiquitous beachgrasses from a cozy sunlit spot in the dunes. I loved the feeling of sunlight and shade, looking out to the huge expanse sea and sky beyond.

Gouache on handmade paper, 4x6 inches, presented shrink-wrapped on a larger acid-free backing.

This is a WIP (work-in-progress) 

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"Canyon Shadows", oil painting on canvas, 11"x14"  

Plein air. View from the Grand Canyon South Rim, early dawn with very cold light. Light shifts with the rising mist of morning condensation.

Plein air painting from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, late morning in September. 

Plein air painting can be rough and fast with gouache. Sometimes I find it best to leave the energy of the initial painting alone so I don't overwork it and lose that wonderful vitality.

This giclée print is a signed, limited edition on Arches fine print acid-free paper, presented 16" x 20" on acid-free foam board.

The original gouache was painted from a memory of traveling home 'to the river' after  a late night playing music with friends in town.  That weird orange town light through the condensed air of the small hours always makes me feel a little lonely. It's a feeling exacerbated  by 'edges', like the raggedy edge where town and not-town meet, and where things seem uncertain.

This giclée print is a signed, limited edition on Arches fine print paper, presented 16" x 20" on acid-free foam board.

The river where I used to live has layers of beautiful aquamarine clear waters, fed by many creeks along its route.  Sometimes those creek entries are nearly invisible, except to the returning salmon who know where they are.

Gouache on 6" x 8" handmade paper, presented on acid-free foam board 16" x 20"

These small paintings are a series from my own garden, where I see the most amazing things in a gardening day.  Young tender bean plants carve exquisitely graceful shadows on their soil bed in early summer sunlight.

This original painting has been purchased by a collector, but prints are now available here.

Original gouache painting on heavy, handmade paper with beautiful deckled edges.

Image Size:  approximately 10" x 12", mounted on acid-free foam board 16" x 20" or framed with light-colored wood frame. 

The mountains call me every year.  The light is almost always the "magic hour" up there, even at high noon when it cuts the hardest line. 

12x16 acrylic on canvas, framed with inset. Fishing boats coming into the harbor for the night. Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon. The bridge almost disappears against the evening skies, and a stillness settles on the harbor. You can still hear the seals though.