Palm Springs Deco II Painting

I first visited California in the late 1980s, not long after my sister Jane had relocated to Los Angeles. Then, as now, I found it to be contradictory and fascinating – fast, vulgar, bewildering and beautiful. For a painter, the interaction of the natural and built environments, and the pin-sharp light that falls upon it, is a gift. Houses in these places can seem like miracles of both engineering and imagination – built elegantly in ways that accentuate rather than offend nature. You can get drunk on just design in California. Mounted in grey timber tray frame.