I want people to feel the importance of place, to want to go there and experience it. I want them to notice something new or see the familiar in a new light. I want to engender affection for the creation and the thoughtful additions to it. I might show the ugly side of our abuse of it. But as Wendell Berry said in his Jefferson Lecture, It All Turns On Affection, "affection involves us entirely." if we don't have an underlying affection for people and places, we will not be moved to care for them. Landscape Painting can do this, and keep people and places in our imagination, and perhaps hint at the long history and culture associated with place.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Show: Jan. - March 2015, Geneva Hall, First Presbyterian Church Berkeley
Watercolor Demonstrations: 2015, El Cerrito Art Assoc., Riley Street Art Supply, San Rafael
Group Shows:
March 2015: Rileystreet Art Supply San Rafael, CA
December 2014-January 2015: " Enchanted Seasons" Addison Street Windows Gallery, Berkeley: Demetri Broxton, Curator
April-May 2014: Sanderling Group, San Pablo City Art Gallery, Anne Austin, Curator
June 2013-2015: East Bay Pro Arts Open Studios
June 15-August 23, 2013: Showcase Artist, Richmond Art Center
February 29, 2012-April 1st: "DELICIOUS", Studio Gallery, San Francisco, Jennifer Terry, Juror
October 22, 2011-December 3, 2011: National Watercolor Society 91st National Exhibition, Ted Nuttall, Mary Ann Beckwith, Judy Morris, Jurors
October 15-16, 2011: ArtSpan.org San Francisco Open Studios, at the historic Bayview Opera House
July 2012: Richmond Art Center Annual Members Show – selected as showcase artist for 2013
February 24, 2012: S.A.W.S. 31st Annual Watercolor Exhibit, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
February 26 - April 3, 2011: San Pablo City Gallery, "Immigrant Neighborhoods", Anne Austin, Curator
January 15 - March 30, 2011: Neilsen Gallery, Albany CA.
December 2, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011: Best of The Valona Paint Out, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA, Gerald Epperson, Owner
October 18-November 21: 2010 Valona Paint Out, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
September 17-19, 2010: Port Costa Art Show
April 17, 2010: "Images of Alameda" Juried benefit show for The Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
March 1 - July 9, 2010: California Art Club juried show, "Treasures of the East Bay" Oakland, CA 94607
August 2009: "30 and Beyond: College of Design Alumni Exhibition," Online Exhibit, Iowa State University