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Mariposa Grove

12″ x 6″ oil on panel

I find painting redwoods to be really challenging. For this diptych I leaned into the height and focused on a few trees in a cluster.

GPS: 37.503309, -119.60119

I started this in a quiet shady spot next to the Merced River in Yosemite. As I was wrapping it up things got busy so when I look at this I happily remember the exuberant sounds of kids jumping into the flow from across the river. Perfect for a hot summer day.

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Summer in Yosemite

I am working on a project to paint 50 small 6″ x 6″ paintings of Yosemite for a show in September and wanted a bunch of them to be painted on-site. I completely lucked out on my early July painting trip with glorious weather, wonderful painter friends and I didn’t experience any difficulties associated with long wait times or overcrowding. Still, I made sure to arrive on a Monday. I was also fortunate to stay with a painter friend in Mariposa so we were able to enter the park early, early, early.

The Rostrum (Upper)

6″ x 6″ oil panel

I painted the 800′ granite tower on a beautiful summer morning. It was painted as a diptych with the lower portion featuring the Merced River.

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The Rostrum (Lower)

6″ x 6″ oil on panel

I painted this on a sunny summer morning in Yosemite tucked into a small spot of shade. Realizing how beautiful the Merced river was with backlit greenery, I decided to include it as a foreground. That’s what lead my painting of The Rostrum to become a diptych.

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The Rostrum

12″ x 6″ oil on panel

This diptych was painted on site in Yosemite as part of a project to create 50 small Yosemite paintings. The Rostrum is well known by climbers for dramatic 800′ rise. This piece consists of two panels (lower) and (upper).

GPS: 37.722645, -119.712723

Juried California Landscape Show – Sausalito Center for the Arts

8/5/2026 – 8/27/2026

Very lovely to have one of my paintings included in the Sausalito Landscape Show. I very much appreciate the juror, Carolyn Meyer for selecting my painting for the show. Carolyn is the Director of the School of Fine Art Painting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Her work includes a range of abstracted San Francisco Landscapes that I find to be so inspirational.

This chow coincides with the Sausalito Art Center’s Plein Air Invitational. I am really looking forward to seeing all of these freshly created beauties as well.

Both shows are currently on view at 750 Bridgeway in Sausalito. There are receptions for both shows on August 9 and August 27.

Crossing at Wawona

6″ x 6″ oil on linen panel

I painted this the black bear from a photo taken near the Wawona Meadow in Yosemite. Spring brings wild raspberries and black bears into the meadow and reminders for all of us to drive alert.

GPS: 37.536425, -119.656554

El Capitan, Springtime

6″ x 6″ oil on panel

I love the raking light as it passes over granite verticals and spring green trees.

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Glen Aulin Falls

6″ x 6″ oil on linen panel

It’s been a long time since I have made the hike into Glen Aulin Falls along the Tuolomne River in Yosemite’s high country. My main memory is wondering ‘how much further’ then suddenly coming upon the falls. One of the Yosemite High Sierra Camps is located close to this spot.

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