Colorado encompasses most of the Southern Rockies, the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. The Spanish explorers led by Coronado who embarked in the territory beginning in 1540, named the territory the Spanish equivalent of “colored red.”
This composition captures the “red” essence of Colorado, while the distant peeks celebrate the towering heights and grand expanses of the Rockies.

This composition features distant mystical foggy mountains against a lush verdant landscape under blue sunlit skies.  
Mountain fog is a unique atmospheric effect resulting from warm humid air cooling rapidly as it enters higher elevations, and is most prevalent after a summer rainstorm.

This composition celebrates the Great Smoky Mountains with a rich palette of greens ranging from Emerald, Jade, Forest and Pine under an elusive skyscape. The name “Smoky” comes from the natural fog that often hangs over the range and presents as large smoke plumes from a distance.
By the time the first English explorers arrived in Southern Appalachia in the late 17th century, the Cherokee controlled much of the region, and the Great Smoky Mountains lay at the center of their territory. One Cherokee legend tells of a magical lake hidden deep within the range, but inaccessible to humans.

This tranquil landscape features a gently flowing river coursing against a peaceful shoreline while verdant distant hills rise and fall against baby blue sunlit skies.

This peaceful marshland landscape features grassy reeds and rushes and distant swampy trees. Marshes provide a habitat for many exotic species of plants and animals that are found nowhere else.
In ancient mythology a will-o'-the-wisp is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps, or marshes. It resembles a flickering lamp and is said to recede if approached, drawing travellers from the safe paths.

This seascape composition features a regatta of playful sailing yachts flouting their colorful spinnakers under joyful summer skies on a rich azure seas.  

This composition celebrates the mystery of natural networks of white oak branches during wintertime.
Trees are symbols of life, energy, health, growth and strength. Trees are the longest living organisms on the planet.
In winter, the White Oak loses its leaves to conserve water and better survive winter weather conditions—allowing it to renew and regrow in the springtime.

North America’s ancient rivers and streams such as the Kenai, Columbia, Colorado, Yellowstone, or Bighorn are known for breathtaking beauty, lush greenery, wild rapids, mighty waterfalls, and kaleidoscopic eddies and craters with intense bursts of color.

These primal waterbodies serve as home and sanctuary for many famed species of fish, most notably trout, grayling, salmon, and pike—many which were discovered and documented for the first time during the 1803 expedition of Lewis and Clark. 

This four part Angler series portrays a collection of colorful, playful, and curious fish reminiscent of Ernest Hemmingway’s famous quote, “Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you.”

Part two of a six-part set.
 

North America’s ancient rivers and streams such as the Kenai, Columbia, Colorado, Yellowstone, or Bighorn are known for breathtaking beauty, lush greenery, wild rapids, mighty waterfalls, and kaleidoscopic eddies and craters with intense bursts of color.

These primal waterbodies serve as home and sanctuary for many famed species of fish, most notably trout, grayling, salmon, and pike—many which were discovered and documented for the first time during the 1803 expedition of Lewis and Clark. 

This four part Angler series portrays a collection of colorful, playful, and curious fish reminiscent of Ernest Hemmingway’s famous quote, “Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you.”
Part three of a six-part set.

North America’s ancient rivers and streams such as the Kenai, Columbia, Colorado, Yellowstone, or Bighorn are known for breathtaking beauty, lush greenery, wild rapids, mighty waterfalls, and kaleidoscopic eddies and craters with intense bursts of color.


These primal waterbodies serve as home and sanctuary for many famed species of fish, most notably trout, grayling, salmon, and pike—many which were discovered and documented for the first time during the 1803 expedition of Lewis and Clark. 


This four part Angler series portrays a collection of colorful, playful, and curious fish reminiscent of Ernest Hemmingway’s famous quote, “Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you.”

Part one of a six-part set.
 

Three regal hummingbirds gently hover in a pageant of elegance.  Hummingbirds communicate with one another by making visual displays.  Females favor “shuttle flights” with rapid back and forth movements, while only males exhibit “dive displays” featuring U-shaped arc trajectories, diving, buzzing, whistling and popping.
The rich color pallet is drawn from royal Tudor heraldics featuring rondeau blue, scarlet red, and  alluvian gold, set against a warm sandstone background. 

A joyful and serene landscape with richly fertile soils and verdant rolling hills giving way to a distant bank of fields under a blue sunlit sky punctuated with gentle soft-gray clouds.

Four regal parakeets merrily perch on a stick.  Color pallet includes lime green, chiffron blue, and moon yellow against a traditional light beige background.

Four regal parakeets merrily perch on a stick.  Color pallet includes lime green, chiffron blue, and moon yellow against a traditional light beige background.

Ella and Louis are friends

The "Asteron" abstract four-part set extols the glory of the two brightest stars in the night sky, Regulus and Sirius.  The later, Sirius is distinguished as being twice as large as our sun whose heliacal rising marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt-- and the former, Regulus (Latin for "Prince" or "Little King") is known as the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, thus "the heart of the lion."  These compositions celebrate the dichotomy of lightness and dark in deference to celestial rays as they cross our earthen skies.
Part three of a four part set.

The "Asteron" abstract four-part set extols the glory of the two brightest stars in the night sky, Regulus and Sirius.  The later, Sirius is distinguished as being twice as large as our sun whose heliacal rising marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt-- and the former, Regulus (Latin for "Prince" or "Little King") is known as the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, thus "the heart of the lion."  These compositions celebrate the dichotomy of lightness and dark in deference to celestial rays as they cross our earthen skies.
Part four of a four-part set.

Six gracefully lit sunflower yellow birds harmoniously prepare for their busy work. The act of birds coming together in unison is technically known as allelomimesis. The Greek word 'allelo' describes mutual relation to one another, and 'memesis' (also Greek) denotes imitation or mimicry.
Most commonly, birds are exceptionally effective in teamwork as evidenced in “Flying V” formations and flocking patterns that promote safety in numbers and greater efficiency in foraging.

Three regal hummingbirds gently hover in a pageant of elegance.  Hummingbirds communicate with one another by making visual displays.  Females favor “shuttle flights” with rapid back and forth movements, while only males exhibit “dive displays” featuring U-shaped arc trajectories, diving, buzzing, whistling and popping.
The rich color pallet is drawn from royal Windsor heraldics featuring rondeau blue, scarlet red, and alluvian gold, set against a warm sandstone background. 

As a color, turquoise is a blend of blue and green, having both cool and calming attributes. It is associated with refreshment, feminine, calming, sophisticated, energy, wisdom, serenity wholeness, creativity, friendship, love, joy, intuition, and loyalty. The golden heart symbolizes love and faithfulness supreme within this assuring foundation.
This abstract series is dedicated to Duchess Anna Amalia (1739-1807). As an affluent noble and influential patroness of art and literature, grand-daughter of Frederick the Great of Prussia, Anna Amalia cultivated and supported many of the greatest minds of European theatre—most notably Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller (whose poem “An die Freude” formed the nucleus of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony). As an 18th century inspiration for many women to follow, Anna Amalia founded a theatrical company, was a notable symphonic composer, and endowed a library which is now home to over 1,000,000 volumes.