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The Bridge in Our Wake (watercolor 15 x 19) Available
This is the beautifully rural Llangollen Canal, near Llangollen, Wales. As you can see from the wake, I took the reference photos for this painting looking back over the stern of our little narrowboat. To be ridiculously specific, this Bridge 36W looking back towards Trevor Basin on the last leg of our journey to Llangollen itself. Its idyllic up there.
Prints are available here.
The Bones of Dinas Bran (watercolor 19 x 23) Available
This is bits and pieces of what’s left of Castell Dinas Bran, sometimes referred to as Crow’s Fortress or Crow Castle. The castle was probably built sometime in the 1260s by Gruffydd II ap Madog, making it the only Welsh Castle we visited to actually have been built by the Welsh. The castle is now an evocative ruin perched on the hilltop above Llangollen.
We walked a mile or so up to see it after having moored within sight of it the night before. It’s a powerful sight whether seen from above or below.
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Moored Garden (watercolor 17 x 23) available
Another painting from our narrowboating trip on the Llangollen. This time there’s actually a narrowboat in the painting, not to mention the canal itself. I took the reference photo for this painting not far from Ellesmere.
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All Rows Lead to the Eastgate Clock (watercolor 17 x 23) available
Chester’s pride and joy, is the The Rows, a shopping district of more or less authentic Elizabethan building centered around the The Queen’s Jubilee Clock set over the Eastgate of the city walls. Prints are available here.
Late Afternoon Denbighshire (watercolor 17 x 23) available
We are just back from a narrowboating trip on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales. Paradoxically, we spent much of our week’s boat rental walking on dry land both along the canal and into the countryside. This particular walk was along part of the Offa’s Dyke Path just a few miles west of Chirk Marina. The typical slate farmhouse in the mid-ground was visible for most of our late afternoon walk. Prints are available here.
Shadows Over the Hilltop (watercolor 10 x 15) available
Shadows on the hillside above Croisan Creek, Salem, Oregon.
Looking Up Saint Peters (watercolor 15 x 17) available
An upwards look at St. Peters, in Rome.
Cresting the Hill (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
Another forest painting from Croisan Scenic Trail.
Northwest by Victorian (watercolor 15 x 22) Available
This is a fantasy grouping of the real Victorian houses just east of downtown Albany, and the rather prominent church just west of downtown.
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Old Woman (watercolor 16 x 21) SOLD
An upwards look at the woods backing our yard. Either you will see the old woman or you won’t. If you do see her, you won’t be able to stop seeing her.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art reproduction here.
Lacey Edge (watercolor 12 x 17) Available
Watercolor painting of the lacy patterns made by light on the forest edge.
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Spring Tangle (watercolor 14 x 19) Sold
This painting has sold, but you can purchase a fine art reproduction here.
Early Spring (watercolor on yupo 11 x 14) Available
A little bit like alcohol ink, but more controllable. This painting is watercolor on Yupo, which is a little like painting on glass.
Pantheon Spotlight (watercolor 12 x 17) Available
The dome in the Roman Pantheon is open to the sky. It provides all of the natural light in the church. The result is slowly moving spotlight, picking out first one wall than another in the Pantheon.
Looking Up Towards Home II (watercolor 13 x 19) Sold
Walking home from a morning walk in the woods we looked up the hill towards our house into magical morning light. I’ve done my best to capture that light in this pair of paintings.
Looking Up Towards Home I (watercolor 13 x 19) Sold
These paintings have sold, but you can still purchase prints here.
Spring Snow on Croisan Train (watercolor 14 x 19) Available
We walked Croisan Scenic Trail all this winter, rain, snow, or shine. It is beautiful in the snow.
Breaking Out: Empty Nest IV (watercolor 18 x 21) Available
Another painting based on my empty nest.
To the Cathedral (watercolor 15 x 19) SOLD
Santa Cruz in the Barrio on a street leading to the Seville Cathedral.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art print.
Wings From Home: Empty Nest III (watercolor 23 x 17) Available
Another painting based on the empty nest I found in our yard.
Looking Up (watercolor 12 x 17) Available
Looking up from the nave of Salamanca Cathedral, Spain.
Waking Forest (watercolor 13 x 18) Available
A Columbia Gorge nymph emerges out of the landscape.
Empty Nest II (watercolor 15 x 19) Available
Reflections on becoming an empty nester, via abstract variations of a bird’s nest I found in my backyard.
Empty Nest (13 x 15 watercolor) Available
We had Juncos nesting under our deck last spring. After the birds had left, I stole the next to paint.
Freight at Dusk (16 x 21 watercolor) Available
I drive through Albany on my way to Art in the Valley several times a month. Crossing over the railway bridge I admire the trains, but there’s no place to pull over and stop. So last month, I made a point of pulling into the station and walking up the bridge to photograph the trains. I may do it again at a different time of day.
Birth of Venus One (18 x 24 watercolor) Available
Birth of Venus Two, (18 x 24 watercolor) Available
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is stunning, but it never captured the delivery part of birth for me. Botticelli’s Venus is serene. She is arriving at the shore, the messy birth process long behind her. My Venuses are actually in the process of emerging from the sea foam.
Lighthouse Stairs, (18 x 13 watercolor) Available
Looking down the stairs at Yaquina Light House in Newport Oregon.
Perhaps Persephone (watercolor 16 x 22) SOLD
Initially, this painting was inspired by a bird’s nest left over from last Spring. Looking at the nest, the woman with bird’s nest hair and the whitewater dress rising from the ground just came to me. She became Persephone as painted her. Now she is drowsily sinking back into the earth before her return to Hades and the Underworld. She’ll be back in the Spring.
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The Heart of Salamanca (watercolor 19 x 23) Available
This is early morning on the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain. In a couple hours the Plaza will be full of umbrella tables. But right now the coffee drinkers are inside enjoying the warmth.
Trujillo Cathedral (watercolor 10 x 22) Available
This is the cathedral in Trujillo, Spain, also known as “Our Lady of Peace.” I’ve painted her from the side, as a neighbor might walk to her. But she presides over Trujillo’s Plaza Mayor.
Alhambra Muse (watercolor 17 x 23) Available
This is one of the first courts in the Palacios Nazaries of Granada’s Alhambra.
The Yellow Church (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
This is the Plaza Mayor in the village of Zahara, Cadiz Province, Spain. The village is one of the more picturesque pueblos blancos in Andulacia. The church I’ve painted is known as the Torre del Reloj (Yellow Tower), and it dominates the square.
Via Miranda (watercolor 9 x 19) Available
From Miranda del Castanar, all the views are vistas but all the vistas are framed by narrow streets. This little half timbered village, with a population of less than five hundred is a joy to wander.
The View From Miranda (watercolor 11 x 19) SOLD
Leaving Segovia (watercolor 23 x 16) Available
Driving out of Segovia’s old town ends with a spectacular view of the aqueduct. Driving out on a rainy night, is like driving into an impressionist painting of the aquaduct..
Mudejar Arch (watercolor 13 x 18) SOLD
During our trip to Spain, I fell in love with the mudejar horseshoe arches. This particular arch is in the Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija in Seville. The Palace is an architectural hodgepodge, with mudejar and Renaissance elements and ancient Roman mosaic floors.
This painting has sold, but you may still purchase a fine art print.
