Spiral Triangulation

Three spirals, no waiting. This is one painting, giving an above and below feeling. A triangle will always let you know where you are, in case you need to know.

Spiral Triangulation 18 x 30 inches, oil on canvas.

Illusions of Azure

This painting is my first "iON" inspired creation. The illusion may be the galaxy living under the wave, but who's to say what is above or below?

Azure Illusions 30 x 24 inches, oil on canvas.

St. Tropez in Paris

Here's a recent mural commission painted on canvas that I installed on a wall in an apartment in the Marais, in Paris. It's a fun piece, a beach in the south of France complete with a playful Brigitte Bardot. The client was very happy!

A photo from Paris!

Funny how I've lived in the most visited city in the world for four years and never post photos of what has been my home!

So here I am with my friend Carol doing what is one of my favorite things to do anywhere, but especially in Paris...that would be eating. Fabulous Grand Marnier souffles at Bistro Chez Margot, 25 Boulevard Henri IV
75004.

Portrait at Giverny

My great friend Carol commissioned a painting in which she wanted to capture her time in France. Originally, she thought of herself on the famous bridge in Monet's garden in Giverny, but that looked too staged. After spending most of the day trying to find the perfect spot, in between enjoying the superabundance of beauty, we stopped "trying" and settled down to some tasty cheese and reviving wine. Only then of course it became effortless, the sun broke through at the perfect angle and everything fell into place. A case of relax and allow!

Monet's Gardens and the sexy Virgin

Last weekend I had the immense pleasure of visiting Giverny to experience the house and gardens of Monet. The grounds were an orgy to the senses, the explosions of color and perfumes of the flowers. Escaping the crowds, we found the Ancient Restaurant Baudy Hotel, the famous hotel that became an artists' colony in the late 1800's. Baudy was the "American painters' hotel" where everyone would dance the night sipping their whiskey. The bill that Cezanne paid at the bar is well know: "Mister Cezanne, two whiskies with Mister Monet". The artists' studio is still in the garden, open tubes and pigments well aged, and dirty palates that I had the urge to take and clean! The first two photos above were taken at the gardens there.

The next day we found ourselves rather by accident at the medieval town of Senlis, after a fabulous lunch we wandered the town and entered the cathedral. All three of us were rooted to the floor when we looked way up and saw the Virgin and Child surrounded by plain colored stonework while she herself was swathed in bright orange! I've never seen orange on the Virgin Mary, mostly because orange is the color of sex and creativity, and happens to be one of my favorite colors, partly for that reason but also because it looks good on me (see photo from just the previous day)! Not a color associated with virgins, another reason its a favorite!

I think the sculptor had the last laugh on someone a few centuries earlier!

Lions and Lions and Lions

e heart
thing.

Suddenly, I'm surrounded by Lions! Earlier this month, just after finishing this painting, I was in the French countryside in the home of people I've just met. There in pride (ha) of place is a large pen and ink of a lion's face very like the expression in my painting. Throughout the house there was more lion art and it turns out we were in the area of the last days of King Richard the Lionheart or "Coeur de Lion." Three days later I walk out of a restroom in the Hotel Lutetia in Paris and smack in front of me is an old etching of a lion. And now as I 'm writing this I'm in Italy staying at the Mount Lion Cultural Centre, with the small town of Monteleone just up the hill. I love life, its so magical! How can you go wrong when surrounded by strong courageous lions? Bon courage!