Water Ways Series: Watery Roads

This is my third painting of the sandstone cliffs and formations at Timber Cove, on the Sonoma Coast. The forms created by the wind are fascinating and a delight to explore. I return there often.

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Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

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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.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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When I lived on the Mendocino coast I walked on the beach daily. The coast there is wild, the waves are powerful and the currents are strong. The rock formations are unique there, something about their shape and what they are made of create a distinct water display. As the waves crash over the rocks the water streams down the rocks, following time-worn crevices. I was mesmerized by these continuously changing waterfalls, the more I watched them the more I wanted to do a painting featuring them. I titled this painting "Everywhere, All At Once" because the water is going in every direction, there are five types of water movement in this painting. I loved the challenge of capturing the explosive power and chaos of the ocean breaking on the northern California coast.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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Observing the movement and patterns of water is a favorite pastime of mine. There are so many paintings of the ocean and breaking waves, many of them featuring the classic barrel wave. I am into depicting familiar scenes in ways that are different or unexpected. I wanted to paint the kind of wave explosion that creates a fine mist, where the wave is no longer one solid shape, but has become countless particles of water. I wanted the viewer to almost feel the moisture coming off of this wave, and feel the pull of the water around their ankles as the water is drawn back out.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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Pudding Creek meets the Pacific at Fort Bragg in Mendocino County. There is an old wooden train trestle that crosses over it and provides bird’s-eye views of the beach below. When the tide is low water stands very still on the beach and reflects the sky above the ocean like a mirror.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

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This is the way that the sky looked on the nights after Adi Da’s Mahasamadhi. In the boat laden with devotees from all over the world, this sky drew us through the reef to Naitauba. The crescent moon was hanging in the sky over the island, with two stars positioned above it. The light from the moon danced brightly over the calm waters. It was a beautiful and most unusual constellation, one that was impossible to miss. I made this painting as a way of honoring that moment, the pilgrimage to Naitauba. Then the pilgrimage to the Brightness , to offer Him gifts there and sit in attendance at His burial site. It was a time that was a mixture of sadness, raw emotions, heart openness, celebration, and letting go. The empty boat symbolizes His departure from this physical world, I draped a Fijian salu salu over the boat as an offering to Him. The sky I painted exactly as I remembered it. You can see the tip of the island and the beach that welcomes the arriving boats.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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This painting was inspired by walking the Napali coast trail on the north shore of Kauai. It had rained recently and the trail was muddy as it wound its way through the jungle. Walking beneath trees with large green leaves, in the shade and humidity, the pungent smell of vegetation enveloped me. Then, a bright clearing as I came around a bend. The sun was out briefly, casting its light long across the ocean. The water was lit up closest to the coastline, adding extra drama to the points of land. It was one of those quintessential Hawaiian days, the weather was changing every few minutes. Each time the sun came out from behind the clouds it changed the entire look and feel of the coastline. This is what I wanted to convey in this painting.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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This painting depicts a small slip of beach between large rocks as a wave rolls in. I was captivated watching the force and pattern of the water as it rushed in to the beach through this narrow space. I wanted to capture the subtlety of the whitewater, as well as the riot of activity as the wave splashed onto the rocks. I painted this on white silk. In order to preserve the white spaces for the water I had to paint in reverse. I started with painting only what was not the wave, carefully painting the edges of the water, the shadows, but not the whitewater itself. It was an interesting and challenging process. I titled this painting "Rise and Fall", acknowledging the Pacific waves that mirror the rhythm of all of life.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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I was thinking about how would like to paint three persimmons. The persimmons represent the three stations of the heart in Adi Da’s Teaching. The next thing I knew I had the design right there in my mind’s eye. All of the elements were there, which is unusual in my process. I immediately made a sketch of the design. The rolling ocean of patterned waves is the depth, the sea of bliss. The stylized gold leaf cloud represents spirit, breath, or air. The cloud moves across and behind the three persimmons, or the heart. The sun is light or radiance. The two triangles coming down are composed of paisley patterns. Winding around the paisley patterns are the words of the Beloved, I Am Da letter written by Adi Da in 1979. I was able to copy His handwriting directly from a copy of the letter that was given to devotees at that time.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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I greatly admire and am influenced by Japanese woodblock artists. This scene was from my "minds-eye view", in homage to those masters of the woodblock prints. Katsushika Hokusai, Hiroshi Yoshida, Ohara Koson, and Kawase Hasui, to name a few. In the spirit of those influences the rocks and water are highly stylized and the colors of the sky are the classic hues of the sunset over the ocean. The tree growing out of the rock looks impossible, but these things really do happen, and I always marvel at their ability to thrive when I see trees like this.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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This painting was created from my imagination. I wanted to put together some of my favorite stylizations of nature in one painting. In this way it became quite a magical scene. Just a few days after I hung the painting a young girl and her aunt came in to the gallery. The girl was so taken by the painting , she really wanted it! After some thought, her aunt generously bought it for her. I was delighted to see the girl’s delight in the painting, and to know that she was going to grow up with it.

Giclée prints of original paintings are limited to 54 reproductions.

Giclées are printed on Cold Press Bright White paper; 310g, water-resistant, and made from 100% cotton fiber, acid and lignin free.

Giclées are sold unframed, but I am happy to frame your giclées for you if you like. Check out my Framing Methods and Materials page to get a sense of my approach to framing. Please contact me if you have further questions.

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