Sedgewick Ranch

Hank Pitcher and I had hoped to make a national school of painting. Young painters would come here each summer. We still have that dream. Funding is very scarce now.

We keep it going with the local students who take the course.

We have had fun with a biologist and geologist that point out colors of what "this is" and rock formations and here a big fault line making it informative for us as we paint.

Santa Barbara

This is the Lagoon I painted all through the 80's in black and white.




When I was in NY it seemed far away like a dream remembered, I would say.

I started painting it in color again I guess in the middle 90's.

Santa Barbara

I used Santa Barbara as my base painting around the West. Beautiful there. Not quite as huge as the other places like Big Sur and Yosemite I would paint. More the scale of Long Island. But the modest scale allows one to live there. Sadly too easily as it is now overflowing.