ON THE ROAD    oil on canvas    8" x 8"

ARIZONA      oil on canvas     40" x 30"

Moon and Venus at Dawn This Week

worth getting up to take a look at these gleaming beauties in the deep blue clear desert sky as the sun's glow turns the horizon red...from the Mojave, particularly striking about 10 minutes before 6am...

From Sky and Telescope

1964 Drawings

rooftops, upper east side, Manhattan

felt marker and watercolor on paper

RED HAT CONE        oil on canvas     48" x 36"

SPRING EQUINOX       oil on canvas       30" x 24"

HANGING SPIRES     oil on canvas     60" x 44"

SUNNY DAY CONE      oil on canvas       30" x 24"

VERMILLION CONE WITH BLACK AND GREEN

 oil on canvas                         16" x 16"

PINK WINDOW     oil on canvas       12" x 12"

RED RIBBON     oil on canvas        12" x 12"

STORY CONE      oil on canvas       40" x 30"

RED VISOR       oil on canvas    12" x 12"

"Spring Spires" — New Abstract Painting

SPRING SPIRES       oil on canvas       40" x 30"

New Abstract Painting: "Spires with Rocket"

GREEN SPIRES WITH ROCKET

oil on canvas           40" x 30"

Spring Creatures

loud happy twitterings drew me to a flock of white-crowned sparrows at the birdbath

here joined by a larger English sparrow

after all this I had to re-fill the bowl...

and a jack rabbit went by in the early sunlight...

"Festival Spires" Abstract Painting

FESTIVAL SPIRES      oil on canvas    10" x 10"

"Night Pool" on the Wall

NIGHT POOL              oil on canvas               48" x 36"

this is a painting made at the end of 2008, in situ in Los Angles

New Abstract Painting: "Four Little Spires"

FOUR LITTLE SPIRES      oil on canvas      8" x 8"

out beyond ideas of right and wrong

THERE IS A FIELD      oil on canvas    20" x 16" 

this is a partial quote from one of my favorite Rumi poems:

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.

from The Essential Rumi (1995) translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson

found in WikiQuote

Testing the River: New Abstract Painting

TESTING THE RIVER      oil on canvas     16" x 16"

Red Spire abstract painting

RED SPIRE with TRANSPARENT CONES

oil on canvas        40" x 30"

New Abstract Painting: "Night Mind"

NIGHT MIND        oil on canvas      20" x 16"

Abstract Painting: "Night Dress"

NIGHT DRESS   oil on canvas   20" x 16"

Yellow Spire Abstract Painting

YELLOW SPIRE ON GRAY WITH BLACK RECTANGLE

oil on canvas        20" x 16"

Abstract Tapestry Painting: Sienna Rose

SIENNA ROSE TAPESTRY        oil on canvas       20" x 16"

Doorway in the Sand: New Abstract Painting

DOORWAY IN THE SAND        oil on canvas         20" x 16"

Apricot Flower

apricot flowering its enthusiasm to attract the pollinating bee

"Morning Spires" — New Abstract Painting

MORNING SPIRES    oil on canvas         30" x 30"

Abstract Expressionist Painting: "Riding the Cyclone"

RIDING THE CYCLONE           oil on board          46" x 47"

this was painted several years ago, and as I look at it again, it seems to fit in with the themes of my current work