Another oldie-but-goodie. Mouser, my friends' cat, passed away a few years ago. She would sit quietly looking at the wall, so was the perfect model. I painted her many times. RIP Mouser.
Mouser
12 x 9 oil on panel
SOLD
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
Call It A Day
My home port of Opua is a ten minute ferry ride to the small town of Kororāreka Russell, New Zealand's first capital. In the early 1800s, before New Zealand became a nation, Kororāreka was a whaling town, called 'the Hell Hole of the Pacific'. It is said that every business was either a bar or a brothel. Now the capital is Wellington and Kororāreka Russell is a pretty little town on the bay, a major tourist attraction in The Bay of Islands.
"Call It A Day" is a sunset from Russell's vantage point. The painting can be seen at Bay of Islands Trading Company on Cass Street.
Call it a Day
7 x 7 oil on panel
Available at Bay of Islands Trading Company, Russell, New Zealand
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Somewhere in the West
"Somewhere in the West" is an 8 x 8 oil on panel, can be seen at Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, North San Diego County in California. There's information below on an upcoming exhibit at the Santa Ysabel Gallery. I'd love to attend but I'll be there in spirit. It's a long way from Opua, New Zealand to Santa Ysabel, California!
Somewhere in the West
8 x 8 oil on panel
Friday, August 14, 2026
Drift Away
I painted this piece a year or two ago. It has since sold at Horton Hayes Fine Art Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.
Drift Away
15.5 x 7.5 oil on panel
SOLD
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Oldie but Goodie
This small oil was sold a few years ago. When I lived in Arizona, I taught several painting workshops at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum where I had the privilege of staying in a casita on the grounds of the museum. Going to sleep each night to the sounds of coyotes yipping (and a scorpion sharing the shower with me) was quite an experience.
Perhaps I need to paint more cacti...
Sonoran Gems
8x8 oil on panel
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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