Stormy Work Olive Trees

Original paintings that are no longer available. I will sometimes do commissions based on a painting I've already done. It will not be identical and will be a painting that I'm happy with, a collaborative effort. I love to play with constraints of size or color, so call and we can chat if you're interested.

Over one hundred fifty of the works have sold, and a few were given as gifts. The artist messed up a couple and one was stolen.

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Vermont Abstract 5

18 x 24"

Oil on canvas

Garrett and Chiania 9x12 (Cow Las Medians)

Still Wondering How Queen Anne's Lace Spirals

Collage

Cassis Nightfall

As the sun went down on one side, a sliver of moon appeared above the hills on the other. This is a nocturne version of "Everything I love about Cassis."

M.B. Abbott's Sunflowers

Oil on linen covered Sourcetek artist panel

Yellow Pears

These three oil sketches of pears are hung in a tryptich frame, yellow, red and green in that order.

Juried into and shown at Carpinteria Arts Center (juror Ruth Ellen Hoag) March-April 2014

Santa Cruz Island Serenity

Rescue

Prisoners Harbor Color II

Oil on deep cradled birch board. OOOweee! This was fun to paint. I enticed a couple of painting pals out to the island, and was not at all sure that they would enjoy the trip. They did! I was happy.

Eilings Evening

I painted with friends up at the top of Eilings Park, looking West toward the sunset.

Salt Marsh After Floods 2018

Cap Canaille Cloudfall final

Vermont Abstract 3

This painting has been juried into a show at Zooker's, in Carpinteria, January-February, 2018

Vermont Abstract 18 (Fire and Ice)

Courthouse

Daisy Day

Nature works wonders. How these evolved to make painting on a grey day interesting, to look so intriguing and right against the grey-greens and blues of ocean mist, I don't know.

Gaviota Afternoon

I so enjoyed painting the poles and wires!

Dawn Wonder

Oil on cradled board

Incoming Storm Jalama

Bright light shone on that distinctive formation one windy day.

Wild Light

Oil on linen covered birch panel. We arrived to wildly moving cloud and sun, as marine layers crept up canyons, and not far away, the water reflected bright sun breaking through the thick clouds.

Winter Waves 2016

See this painting now at the Island Brewery, a family-friendly beer tasting room in Carpinteria. http://www.islandbrewingcompan...

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Carillo Abstract

Oil on artist panel; framed to hang in any orientation, vertical or horizontal.

Prize winner at Carpinteria Arts Center abstract show, October, 2016

Juror: Hugh Margerum

SB Abstract 1119 Crossroads

Two Chianina resized

Meredith Brooks Abbott's Arrangement in Yellow

Now in a New England collection.

Untitled Panorama1

After Seeing Vermeer's Lacemaker

My Studio Guardian Angel

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Little Sur Sunrise I

oil/Japanese wood block panel

Leap Horse

Fire and Ice

SB Abstract #5

Looking Through Mother Earth to the Heavens

Frimousse 1

Hendrys

Violet clouds moved in on the horizon as we painted a quiet afternoon at Hendrys Beach.

Contemplation

sketch from life I loved seeing these cows, their white smooth bodies against the dark backgrounds of barn and ground, the white showing the shadows in their skin stretching around bony hips and shoulders, their bodies massive. These were all cows; we were not allowed to paint the bulls because they were in a separate barn. Our host described them as "Not dangerous, but very ...Italian."

Meg H. F.'s Studio

Vermont Abstract 17

Toro Canyon Abstract

In Santa Barbara collections, both a small and a large version.

Silver Light

SB Abstract ‘violet’

this acrylic painting just won the Jurors Purchase Award at the Abstract Art Collective’s Fourth Annual Open Show. Juror: Nancy Giffords

Gaviota Spring

Looking up the coast at twilight, the low sun and spring growth after rain created a harmony in greens and violet.

Nojoqui Trickle II

Was in the exhibit "Nature in Motion" at the Wildling Museum, Solvang, California. Nojoqui Trickle I won Juror's Choice and was sold at "Near and Far: Plein Air in County Parks" exhibit, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria, California, 2015 (juror: David Gallup) A painter friend encouraged me to enlarge this painting, and the big version sold at the SCAPE show to benefit the Gaviota Coast at the Bacara, yielding a nice donation to the Gaviota Coast Conservancy.

Inky Blues

Weather Front Bluffs

Now in a Santa Barbara collection.

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Hanging off a narrow path as big waves started breaking just below, the glow of those cliffs makes it worth getting out before dawn. It was thrilling. The painting won Honorable Mention from Juror Eric Merrell, California Art Club Signature Artist, at the SCAPE show to benefit the Wildling Museum in October, 2016. Being kept in the artist's collection until a bigger piece is made from it.

Every River Searches for the Sea- Mission Creek

oil sketch Gone to the East Coast

Santa Barbara Bay

Plein air acrylic underpainting with oil, with a little studio finish to it. Now in the collection of a couple who sail the Atlantic coast.

Across the Bay

This 6 foot by 3 foot painting was painted plein air over the course of a few sunsets, looking toward the mountains from the tip of Shoreline Park. Now in a Philadelphia collection.

Worship

Oil on linen-covered artist wood panel (SourceTek); Not for sale because its a new method and needed for reference.

Over Brophy's

Santa Barbara harbor has lots of luscious views--the ice house, the boat hoists and docks, as well as the boats themselves. It's one of my favorite places to paint, and this is a rare shady spot to set up the easel.

Spring's Promise at Nojoqui Falls

For years, artists and critics have been telling me to paint a large version of "Nojoqui Falls Trickle," which won juror's choice at the County Parks show. Many hours and layers of paint later, it's done. Oil on cradled board. Sold at the SCAPE Ritz-Carlton Bacara to a couple who each independently picked it as their favorite.

Del Playa Fog II

Goleta Beach dance

Plein air sketch on a very bright day, when the ocean met the slough

Lady's Waterfalls-Midnight Ride

Pastel on pastel paper; Now in a Washington, D.C. collection

My Condo Stairs (after John Singer Sargent)

This 8 x 11" image is framed to be hung in any orientation.

Stormy Work Olive Trees

Olive, cypress, dark clouds and sun over the hill in the distance, and the owner of the olive groves in a big hat and blue work clothes, at work trimming the trees.

Tuscan Cliff

Colors and shapes inspired this abstracted view. It's now in the collection of California artist Whitney Brooks Abbott.

Dawn Tree

I loved the fragile beauty of this eucalyptus, over the hill, backed by the pearly dawn. Oil on birch panel. Painted plein air at dawn, way up high in Santa Barbara. Now in a Washington DC collection

Weather Front

Light and shadow played and so did I at the end of a long day of painting wild conditions on Carpinteria's beautiful bluffs.

Carpinteria Bluffs Afternoon

oil

Colors Santa Cruz Island Harbor

This is a sketch for a larger version. Not for sale until the big one is just right!

Veiled Wave sketch 2016

Oil sketch

Stop Said Elizabeth

Firewater I (After Turner)

Parent to Child

Acrylic on artists panel Painted at my nephew Ben's wedding, where the huge tree in front sheltered and then allowed the small tree on the little island to flourish.

Painter at Naples Bluffs

Oil on linen covered birch panel 12 x 16

East Fish Camp

Oil; painted from a boat at the back of the Channel Islands; framed to 9 x 11"

Approaching Storm Cap Canaille

Oil Private collection, Santa Barbara

Hendry's Beach Walk

This postcard-sized oil sketch, 4.5 x 6.25 inches, framed to 6 x 8 inches, was sold at the SCAPE County Parks Show, 2014.

Untitled 1

This painting has been lost.

All for a Bottle of Wine

Campus Point from Hope Ranch

oil/ linen-covered wood panel Carpinteria Arts Center chose this painting for all the publicity for the Summer, 2015 show, "California Dreaming." The painting shows a sunset behind Meg's husband's office on the UCSB campus, through old cypress at Hope Ranch.

Harbor Light

Oil over canvas Gone to a beautiful old house in New England, fitting because this is Motif #2 (Motif #1 Being in Rockport, Massachusetts)

Path to Beach at Christy's PM

Oil on linen-covered birch panel.

After the Mistral

Santa Cruz Island Tip

Prisoners Harbor

Now in a Santa Barbara collection

Habor III

Tiny little abstract study, oil and marker on wood panel.

Harbor Morning Cloudfall

oil on linen-covered wood panel Going to a collection in Marin County

Moonrise

oil/Japanese wood block panel; now in a Santa Barbara collection

Coastal Color

On its way to a Boston collection.

Goleta Slough Oil Sketch

Now in a New Hampshire collection

Calanque Window

Oil

From Hills to Harbor

Oil on Canvas Now in a New Hampshire collection

Santa Cruz Landing

Pastel Sketch on Sanded Paper; Stolen or misplaced at GVAA/SBAA Hutton show, Santa Barbara

Gaviota After the Storms

Oil; Juried into Visons of Gaviota: SCAPE show at the Bacara Resort, April, 2013, Juror: John Iwerks

Mission Creek Oak

Now in the collection of a wonderful Santa Barbara painter

Last Light

Oil sketch, unframed

Cloud Waterfall over Santa Cruz Island

Oil on stretched canvas; Juried into Visons of Gaviota: SCAPE show at the Bacara Resort, April, 2013, Juror: John Iwerks; added to a Santa Barbara collection after being shown at the University Club of Santa Barbara.

More Mesa Looking East

This one is nestled in the library of a lovely house above the Hudson River in New York.

Bright Day Goleta Beach

going to a collection in Australia

Looking Down the Canyon

Now in a Santa Barbara collection

Naples: Waiting for Rain

Oil on linen panel over birch wood, Juried into and sold at the SCAPE Bacara Resort Show, 'Visions of Gaviota,' April, 2014, Juror: John Iwerks

Rocks Below Shoreline

Pastel Sketch on Sanded Paper - on its way to a Boston collector

Storm

Juried into and sold at the 2013 SCAPE Art Along the Creek Show, Juror: Larry Iwerks

Carpinteria Ahupua'a

Now in a Philadelphia collection

Beach Reeds

Pastel on Sanded Paper - Now in a Santa Barbara collection

Little Pine at Ellwood Bluff

Pastel on Sanded Paper - SOLD - Juried into and sold at SCAPE Bacara Show 2013.

Violet Evening

Oil on canvas Massachusetts collection

Fairy Tale of Cassis

Hung with "Violet Evening"in a Massachusetts collection.

Montecito Lawn

Pastel Over Watercolor on Wallis Paper, now in a Philadelphia collection

Ipswich Marsh Boardwalk

Pastel on Sanded Paper, Now in a beautiful house overlooking the Hudson River

White Flag at Window

Pastel on Sanded Paper, NFS

Dancing Trees for Mike

Pastel on Sanded Paper - NFS - First version juried into and sold at Bacara SCAPE Show 2013

Friday Night Treats

Pastel on Sanded Paper

Goleta Beach Reflections

Pastel on Sanded Paper, prints available Framed archival giclee now on display at The Good Life, Solvang, California

Still Life - Roses and Fruit on Provencal Tablecloth with Birds

Now in a collection in England

What Lies Beneath

Pastel over ground pastel over oil print. Won 2nd prize at Carpinteria Arts Center Abstract show, June, 2014, Juror: Rick Stich, and sold at the show artist's reception to Santa Barbara collectors.

California Woman in Garden

Pastel over Water Color Underpainting - Private collection, Virginia

Mikes Cloud Fall

9.75x9.75

Twilight Rain (Storm Skies)

oil/wood panel Sold at the Bacara Gaviota Coast benefit 2015

Del Playa Agave Bloom

Oil on Smooth Artist Panel, Jurored into and sold at the SCAPE Bacara 'Visions of Gaviota' show, April, 2014

Kelp

watercolor, pen and ink and pastel pencil sketch

Del Playa Parade - Surfboards

Pastel Sketch on Sanded Paper This is framed in black mat and black frame, and looks great with 'Fire in the Canyon' matted and framed in white.

Blue Violet

Pastel sketch over ground pastel over oil palette print.This can be hung in any orientation.

Tulips

Oil Sketch

Julianna in a Hat

Pastel sketch on Sanded Paper

Pond Twilight

Oil on Canvas; On its way to a beautiful old house on an island in Maine

Everything I Love About Cassis

Currently on display in the dining room at the University Club, Santa Barbara.

Gaviota Moonrise

Jurored into and sold at the SCAPE Bacara Resort 'Visions of Gaviota' show, April 2014

Butterfly Ocean

Oil on 1" Cradled Board

Maroon Kelp

After Seeing Vermeer's Lacemaker

oil

Red Pears

Oil Sketch --See "Yellow" pairs for tryptich details.

Fire in the Canyon

Won Honorable Mention at the SCAPE Wilderness Show, the Art Foundry, Santa Barbara, September 19, 2014
Judge: Patty Jaquemain

Now on display at the Los Olivos Gallery, Los Olivos, California

Calanque Rocks (After Jean-Baptiste Olive)

Oil Bought by a Santa Barbara collector from the University Club exhibit, 2015

Joy

Three Years Old

Etruscan Blue

Part of a diptych of Etruscan cattle.

Tuscan Memories

One last painting before we left the church nearest Spedalone. It had inspiring frescoes inside, and beautiful outbuildings. This was one of them, nestled in the cypress, with a vine along the side, surrounded by meadow grass speckled with spring wildflowers.

Tuscan Hills in Rain

Rain showers blew in a few times on a trip to Tuscany recently, providing great clouds. Here, sunlight hitting a bright green newly planted field was irresistable.

Tuscany Sketch Oil Rapunzels Tower

What to do with stone pines against a squat, awkward bulwark of a tower with fancy windows? Taking liberties, I stretched it high enough it could have housed Rapunzel.

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