The botanical art exhibition opened in the elegant Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon on a moonlit October evening. The garden is a favorite destination for both tourists and locals, so we, as the participating artists, are pleased to have our artwork on display in such a beautiful and popular setting. The show will […]
Farmer’s Market Series: Jimmy Nardello Peppers
I’ve been wanting to make a series of vegetable paintings with roughly geometric compositions…not the perfect symmetry of say, Ernst Haekel‘s compositions, but something funkier befitting to veggies. The first painting in the series is a round cabbage, so next I wanted something more linear as a contrast. These peppers reminded me of calligraphic strokes…rather […]
A Thank You to My Readers
As an expression of appreciation to you, gentle readers, I am offering my prints and cards at a 20% discount (plus shipping) during the month of September. I am giving a 10% discount on original artwork. My prints are signed, limited edition, and made with archival papers and inks. They come mounted, matted and ready […]
Visit to Filoli 2015
“Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life”–this is not only the motto of Filoli but where it got its name, taken from the first letters of this oft repeated saying of its founder, WB Bourn II. I think it is pretty good advice. I thought I would give you […]
Filoli Exhibition 2015
I was excited to get the good news recently that two of my paintings were accepted into the annual Filoli Botanical Art Exhibition. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Filoli is a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is located 30 miles south of San Francisco. It is a country […]