Spring has arrived along with soft rains and new banana plant stalks are shooting up in the garden of my California studio. While I'm waiting for my garden to become green again, I'll be painting banana plants in my small Hawaiian waimea plantation cottage paintings...and dreaming of the lush season that follows. [...]
Hawaii in Summer is one of my newest mini Waimea Plantation Cottage Series paintings. Those of you who have been following my painting blogs for a couple years know that I can paint these small Hawaiian sugar cottages endlessly. This piece forgoes the usual island cottage blue and utilizes the colors of the sun. Bright [...]
Late last month I was blessed to visit Hawaii proper also known as Big Island. Hawaii is a very dynamic, living island. Though our entry and exit to and from the island happened late at night, if you fly in to land during the day you will be able to see how the lava effects [...]
This is a recent commissioned reverse painted glass chandelier that is destined for a lovely new home on Kauai. Birds of paradise are my client's favorite flower. We decided that this piece would be multicolored like many of my tropical bird and flower chandeliers. Tropical themes are my forte—they are my chosen life-long artistic direction [...]
