California Midnight Palms #2 Print

A multiple award winning artist - winning awards for both abstract and expressionist paintings. He arrived in Santa Barbara in 1980 and every day he says he is reminded that the greatest artist of all time is our “higher power”, who paints a breathtaking canvas for us every day. He paints abstractions and abstract impressionist landscapes. His use of rich medium and palette knives and other tools to create pieces is evident. His strokes are strong and bold and authoritative. The work is often done in layers so it takes takes time. The muse is California and the West. The California coast, beach canyons, the Hollywood Hills, the Laguna Hills, the beaches of Southern California and Santa Barbara. He travels the western US and finds surprising weather and views of landscapes throughout that inspire the work. He and his dog Dixie travel the back-country roads of this state from Monterey south to the Mexican border. If they see a road they haven’t been on before, they take it. No place in the world looks quite like California or has the diversity of experience one can find in a single day in the West. Inspiration and beauty is not hard to find here. Art is a way to express what he sees in his minds eye when he hears music, when he feels sunshine on his face, when he is hiking through the desert or walking on a beach. The views of the desert and beach scenes are indelible and easy for him to recreate from memory. He paints with music in the studio where he loses himself in the relationship he finds between music and art. Working on multiple pieces simultaneously he paints every day. With his studio at the beach in Corona Del Mar, California, his inspiration is but steps away. He hopes that you enjoy his work and that it evokes a feeling inside you when you view it. Influences Steve Adam, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothco, Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Nicholas de Stael, Olivier Messas, Lionel Jung-Allegret