Three apricots with sky

This painting has a vintage feel with the warm clouds behind the apricots. Another combination of landscape and still life. | Available unframed Don’t forget to enter the painting give-away contest. Only 3 days left. Click the link on the right side of the page to enter.

Blue duck with cherries

This duck vase came from a resale shop and I’ve had it for a while. The small nest that I found when walking with my dogs just fit perfectly on the hole in his back. I love cherries and these were the last of the season so I piled the ones I hadn’t yet eaten […]

Mango on a green bottle

I recall when finding a mango in the grocery store was strange and exotic, not the common experience it is today. I love using complementary color pairs in my work like the greens and reds in this one. This mango is perched on the mouth of a green bottle I found in the desert when […]

Mango on Americana crystal cup

Mangos are the yummiest fruit. There was a huge 30-foot mango tree in my backyard when I lived in Honduras. That’s when I discovered I was allergic to green mangos. Thankfully I can eat all the ripe ones I want. Yummm. This one sits atop an Americana crystal cup from my mother-in-law’s Sunday crystal.

Mango on dominos

This is another in the ‘stacked’ series of works in which objects are stacked on unlikely objects. In this case they are wooden dominos. Dominos come in all sorts of materials including a kind of synthetic ivory. It was one of the games I remember playing with my grandfather. He was the first one to […]

Kiwi on cork

Kiwis have such a wonderful taste and such a great moist-looking interior. This is one of my “stacked fruit” series. Stacking objects in the composition gives some, like this one, an almost figurative quality. This kiwi sits atop a random cork I found in my studio. Oil on cradled wood panel, 4 x 4 inches. […]

Pear on brass candlestick

This is a painting I did a while ago and today I repainted it. It’s not significantly different but I deepened and grayed some colors and darkened the background and I like it much better now. It’s part of my “stacked fruit” series. I love painting pears because they have such wonderful skin tones. They’re […]