Landscapes

Description: Watermill at Vizelle Chateau Garden in Vizille, France. One of the principal focal areas of the French Revolution, the chateau art gallery hosts many paintings of the revolutionary war.

Description: Cyclists pulling over at the top of the hill above Crystal Springs Reservoir on the San Andreas Fault near San Mateo, CA where the artists says that Californians like to have their earthquakes.

Description: After the artist painted Montara Lighthouse he turned his sights on the ocean view and painted this scene on one of his filed trips with the Peninsula Outdoor Painters from Burlingame, CA.

Description: Garden of the Chateau Vizille located in southern France. The wife of the artist is seen in this work wearing a white coat. Painted while the couple was visiting Grenoble, France. Susan Spiece, a niece of the artist attended college at Grenoble University.

Description: Tuillerie Garden in Paris, France. Site of the former Tuillerie Castle, which was destroyed by the Commune after the Franco-Prussian War. The Commune objected to denouncing the surrender of France to Prussia. This marked the beginning of WWII.

Description: During class breaks when the artist attended the art School at the college of San Mateo he painted the fountain and the library, which can be seen in the background. The artist claims he received many unsolicited suggestions during this exercise.

Description: Restaurant and vineyard office located on the east bay in Livermore, CA.

Description: Wente Vinyard in Livermore, Ca. Painted with an outdoor art group.

Description: This landscape painting was the first use of acrylics by the artist. The object of the painting is a farmhouse in Half Moon Bay, CA.