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Live Oak 30" x 24" Oil on canvas These oil paintings explore how the native flora of the Southern California chaparral community recovered from the 2007 Santiago fire. No one was hurt and approximately 30,000 acres burned. The public was denied access into Whiting Regional Wilderness for a year while the area began to heal from the fire. These paintings represent the chaparral's recovery and re-birth following adversity. I am an admirer of California native plants: their beauty and enduring nature are inspirational. I live adjacent to the Whiting wilderness park and have spent years hiking, observing and sketching the diversity of the chaparral's native plant and animal species. As a student of environmental sciences, I took part in the mountain lion study team that tracked and documented the cougar's behavior in Southern California. I enjoy gardening both edible plants and drought-tolerant local California native plants.
Path to Sun 18" x 24" Oil on canvas
Lift Off 30" x 15" Oil on canvas
Detour 24" x 36" Oil on canvas
Habitat Restoration (Do Not Enter) 40" x 30" Oil on canvas
Uprooted 18" x 24" oil on canvas
Figurative and Landscape Paintings The paintings that follow illustrate some of the activities and places we experience in Southern California:
Surfacing 17" x 23" Pastel on suede
Huddle 24" x 24" Oil on canvas
Woodland Stream 16" x 20" Oil on canvas
Woodland Painter 13" x 14" Oil on canvas
Capistrano Station 11" x 14" Oil on panel
Two Palms - Montage 11" x 14" Oil on panel
Yellow Note - Balboa 11" x 15" Oil on canvas
Portrait of Maya 9" x 10" Pastel on suede
Sadhu - Trabuco Monastery 24" x 18" Pastel on etching on paper
Transformers 18" x 12" Pastel on suede
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Shadow Cactus 18" x 24" Oil on canvas
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Prickly Pear 19" x 16" Oil on canvas
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![]() Emergence 24" x 18" Oil on canvas
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Scorched 16" x 20" Oil on canvas
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Emerging Buckwheat 24" x 30" Oil on canvas
Night Flight 24" x 36" Oil on canvas
Two Springs Following Fire 24" x 36" oil on canvas
Boy Emerging from Deep End of Pool 22" x 24" Pastel on suede
Noon Light on Swimming Female Figure 15" x 21" Pastel on suede
Splash 24" x 24" Oil on canvas
Jump 27" x 27" Pastel on suede
Canyon Sycamore 8" x 8" Pastel on suede
Casper's Wilderness Park 11" x 14" Oil on canvas
California Carpenteria 11" x 14" Oil on canvas
Laguna Canyon Boulders 12" x 12" Oil on canvas
Sea Farer 24" x 18" Pastel on paper
Ali Cat 24" x 18" Oil and pastel on canvas
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