"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Thank you for visiting my watercolor website.  In recently updating it, I realize that many images shown are no longer available as originals, nor are prints available.  Because I work on commission as well as through my website and individual showings, I have left some of these images to portray the range of subject matter that I enjoy painting.  If there are originals and/or prints available, it will be noted next to the image.

As further detailed in my biography, I have been working with transparent watercolor since first moving to California (from the Midwest) in the mid-1980s when my acrylics dried so fast that I had to try something new.  I loved watercolor!  It offers infinite challenges and possibilities of creating rich, flowing color, texture and light.  The very ground—the paper—glows from beneath the color to intensify the transparent qualities of watercolor’s wild nature.  In my summers at the Laguna Beach Art-A-Fair festival, my work ranged from California Missions to florals and lighthouses.  Some are shown on the Missions and Florals, and Seascapes and Lighthouses web pages.

While working in downtown Riverside, California, I walked daily past the historic buildings and courthouses, as well as the landmark historic Riverside Mission Inn.  I began painting them, and a local gallery offered an exhibit of my work if I could complete 20 paintings of the Mission Inn and other Riverside “local color.”  This began my years of painting Riverside’s Mission Inn, the historic 1903 Riverside Courthouse, and other landmark buildings which are presented on the Riverside Local Color Paintings web page.