n [Watch the Video of this painting from “The Landscape Illuminated” exhibit.] nA big volume of air shimmers from here on the cliff to there in the shining distance where the sun is making its way to setting in this painting “Big Sur, Big Sun”.nnUp here, one looks down to the sea through an ocean of space…glittering, glass-like space. The size of the atmosphere astounds you. Across the shimmering expanse of this ever-restless ocean we know there are other worlds: Hawaii, Tahiti, Japan, Australia. But they are far over the curve of the horizon where it is morning or mid day.nnHere, […]

nnnn[Watch the video] In 1883, French Impressionist Claude Monet, moved his family to the little hamlet of Giverny and began developing gardens of flowers and lily ponds, bridges and pathways, so many of the scenes that made their way into his iconic paintings. Little has changed of the house and Giverny since those early days. The gardens are restored and one can walk in the environment that inspired Monet into his old age and still inspires artists like myself today in 2012…nn“Willow Wall” (See Video Below), my large oil on canvas painting featured in my current exhibit “The Landscape Illuminated”, shows a curtain […]