Framed  Original  Watercolors

A landscape of the Blucher Valley watershed in Sonoma County, featuring a Japanese red pine with a stand of birch trees. I took in this view for months, watching the leaves change from green to gold. I was nourished by this sight, and in turn created this painting celebrating the pastoral lands of Sonoma County, California.

Watershed Moment is framed in a wooden frame, matted with white Japanese rice paper.

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This is a painting of Da Love-Ananda Mahal, the hermitage retreat sanctuary of Adi Da Samraj, on the island of Kauai. The property is at the base of Mt. Waialeale, a sacred mountain to the Hawaiian people, whose name means “rippling water” or “overflowing water”. It is the second tallest peak on Kauai, rising up to 5,000 feet. It is one of the wettest places on Earth. Waterfalls descend from the mountain and merge to form the beginning of the Wailua River. The sanctuary sits just above the river, you can hear the pounding and churning of the water from the grounds. This painting shows the top of the Dome Temple surrounded by lush foliage and trees. The mountain stands strong behind it, as water rises up as mist, and waterfalls descend into the river. The top of the mountain is often covered in clouds, but I wanted the full mountain to be seen, with the full moon shining just above the peak of it. There is great mana (or power) in this place. The feeling of the sanctuary and the mountain was of primal importance to me while I painted this.

Da Love-Ananda Mahal is framed in a gold wooden frame, matted with white Japanese rice paper.

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This is a special place, close to my heart. When I go there I feel the power of nature, the connectedness of all of life. The cliffs are very tall, rising straight up from the beach. There is a wildness to the place, an untouched quality. After one of my visits to this beach I drove to a lookout spot above it. There I found an old piano placed on the edge of the cliffs. I sat down and played for a few minutes in that most unlikely situation. It was humorous and delightful to hear the sounds of the old piano floating out over the cliffs above the ocean.

Tunitas is framed in a rounded charcoal gray wooden frame that has a metallic sheen to it. There is a custom mat made with a woven silver paper, set off by a black inner border.

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I carefully package and insure every artwork I send out. I have set the shipping rate framed artworks to $60.00. Larger pieces are likely to be more. If shipping costs vary significantly I will contact you with the adjusted fees.

This is a painting of Adi Da’s house at the Matrix on the island of Naitauba. The cove there is spectacular, clear waters with a gentle tide that comes in to a curved beach. The house looks out over a wide view of the Pacific, with the neighboring islands small and distant at the horizon line. This place is very special to me. Some of the happiest moments of my life happened here. The sunsets are over-the-top dramatic and colorful, this is the way it often looks there. The time of day is just after sunset, when things get quiet and the fruit bats fly out from a tree on the hillside to begin their evening.

Radiance is framed in a black metal frame with a matte finish. It has a custom mat made from Japanese rice paper with a see-through wave pattern.

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I was hiking the Mount St Helena trail in Robert Louis Stevenson State Park in Sonoma County. It was a late September afternoon, and I came upon a Manzanita that seemed to be glistening in the light of the low-hanging sun. In order to represent the moment I felt it necessary to accentuate the sky with multi-colored metal leaf. I chose to paint the Manzanita branch without sunlit highlights so as the keep the colors vibrant against the yellow background.

Mayacamas Autumn is framed in a gold wooden frame. A textured hand-made paper surrounds the painting.

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On the night of Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj’s Mahasamadhi , His transition from the body, I was overcome with emotion. My Guru was no longer physically here in this world. This was devastating to me, and I longed to be with Him. I fell asleep briefly and had a powerful dream. I was flying over the island of Naitauba in Fiji, Adi Da’s principal home. At first I was flying very high so that I could see the whole island below me. Then I swooped down closer in to the island, at the level of the cliffs. I was flying clockwise around the perimeter of the island. The wind was blowing hard, trees were bending and the air felt wild around me. The ocean was churned up, waves were moving in every direction outside the protective reef. I saw many sharks and whales swimming around Naitauba. I sensed that they were there for a purpose. I flew all the way around the island, then I woke up.

I arrived on Naitauba two days later. I found out from the Fijians that it is traditionally understood that when the Tui (or Fijian Chief) dies the sharks come to the island to pay their respect to the Tui. When I heard this I felt that my dream had not been a dream at all. I felt that I had actually been there witnessing that moment . This painting is an illustration of what I saw, the image and the feeling of it was so impactful to me that it was easy to remember. Turaga Dau Loloma Vunirarama is Adi Da’s Fijian name.

Garland of Whales has an embossed border with a deckled edge. The painting is mounted on ¼" acid-free foam core which is affixed to the frame back. A striped textural linen paper surrounds the painting. It is set into a wide wooden gold frame.

Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach. Please contact me if you have further questions.

I carefully package and insure every artwork I send out. I have set the shipping rate framed artworks to $60.00. Larger pieces are likely to be more. If shipping costs vary significantly I will contact you with the adjusted fees.