San Francisco Bay Area

Escape from Alcatraz (Dia de los Muertos), 2025 acrylic and pastel on canvas 24 x 36" Color palette of my favorite graveyard in Mexico, here I imagined Alcatraz before it was a Civil War fortress, military prison, federal prison, bird sanctuary, the first lighthouse on the West Coast, occupied by Indians of all Tribes 1969-1971, now a National Historic Landmark and contemplated as a future immigration detention center.

Angel Island, 2025 oil, acrylic, pastel on canvas 36 x 48" View from my studio window, painted without the former immigration center, now a museum. "While the exact number is unknown, estimates suggest that between 1910 and 1940, the station processed up to one million Asian and other immigrants, including 250,000 Chinese and 150,000 Japanese ...Thousands of immigrants detained on Angel Island endured the station's prison-like environment." - NPS website. Also served as a Japanese internment camp during WWII. Painted with the color palette of the American flag, striped water, and stars layered under the fog.

Alcatraz, 2025 oil acrylic and pastel on canvas 36 x 48" Reimagined before it was a Civil War fortress, military prison, federal prison, bird sanctuary, the first lighthouse on the West Coast, occupied by Indians of all Tribes 1969-1971, now a National Historic Landmark and contemplated as a future immigration detention center. Behind it is Angel Island which was host to a Japanese internment camp during WWII and prior to that was the largest immigration center on the West coast, interning thousands of mostly Asian immigrants in a "prison-like" environment.

San Francisco Bay South, 2024 (before infrastructure and "settlement") oil and acrylic on canvas 24 x 36"

Golden Gate from Bakers Beach, 2024 without the bridge in the color palette of the bridge from my series on the SF Bay before infrastructure and "settlement" oil and acrylic on canvas 24 x 36"

San Francisco Bay North before infrastructure and "Settlement" oil and acrylic on canvas 24 x 36" 2024 Before Highway 37, dredging, hay farms…now somewhat being restored to a natural habitat that narrowly missed being a billion dollar luxury development including schools and 2 marinas.

San Francisco without the City oil on canvas 8 x 48" 2024 sold

Golden Gate (before the bridge), 2024 from my series on the SF Bay before infrastructure and "settlement" oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 36 x 48"

Golden Gate from the Pacific, 2024 (before the bridge) oil and acrylic on canvas 6 x 24"

Marine Layers oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 48 x 36" 2023 Inspired by the ever changing light on my bay view and my favorite artist, Agnes Martin. Reproduced on metal to 8' and installed at the Mill Valley Depot by the MV Arts Commission May - Sept 2025

Bolinas Lagoon, 2025 acrylic on unstretched muslin 8 x 36" Made this painting of beautiful Bolinas Lagoon, now a national and state treasure once slated for development and a 4 lane highway. I nearly grew up next to the Audubon Ranch as my dad considered an old house on the adjacent property in 1968.

North Bay 360 Degree View acrylic and posca on muslin 3 x 42 feet 2025 Now restored to a natural habitat that narrowly missed being a billion dollar luxury development including schools and 2 marinas.

How my 42 foot 360 Degree View of the SF North Bay was made: scroll style on studio desk one section at a time - acrylic wash on muslin.

Fort Cronkhite 1 16 x 20" oil and acrylic on canvas 2024 sold Documenting the WWII military batteries of Marin Headlands guarding the Golden Gate for fear of Japanese invasion. Patterns/colors inspired by textiles depicted in woodblock prints at the Legion of Honor Japanese Prints in Transition show.

Fort Cronkhite 2 18 x 24" ink on yupo paper 2024 sold Documenting the WWII military batteries of Marin Headlands guarding the Golden Gate for fear of Japanese invasion. Patterns/colors inspired by textiles depicted in woodblock prints at the Legion of Honor Japanese Prints in Transition show.

Fort Cronkhite 3 16 x 20" oil and acrylic on canvas 2024 Documenting the WWII military batteries of Marin Headlands guarding the Golden Gate for fear of Japanese invasion. Patterns/colors inspired by textiles depicted in woodblock prints at the Legion of Honor Japanese Prints in Transition show.

Fort Cronkhite 1 watercolor study 2024 Documenting the WWII military batteries of Marin Headlands guarding the Golden Gate for fear of Japanese invasion. Patterns/colors inspired by textiles depicted in woodblock prints at the Legion of Honor Japanese Prints in Transition show.

Fort Cronkhite 2 watercolor study 2024 Documenting the WWII military batteries of Marin Headlands guarding the Golden Gate for fear of Japanese invasion. Patterns/colors inspired by textiles depicted in woodblock prints at the Legion of Honor Japanese Prints in Transition show.

Fort Cronkhite 3 watercolor study 2024 sold Documenting the WWII military batteries of Marin Headlands guarding the Golden Gate for fear of Japanese invasion. Patterns/colors inspired by textiles depicted in woodblock prints at the Legion of Honor Japanese Prints in Transition show.

Sutro Baths, 2024 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 36 x 48" sold (commission) The Sutro Baths were torn down the year I was born but my dad had a birthday party there when he was young. They could accommodate up to 10,000 bathers and had 7 different temperature pools.

Ocean Beach, SF oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 42 x 54” 2023

The Birds, Bodega Bay Tippi Hedren rowing away from the town of Bodega Bay in the Alfred Hitchcock film Oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 18 x 24” 2023

The Birds, Highway 1 Tippi Hedren driving to the town of Bodega Bay in the Alfred Hitchcock film Oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 18 x 24" 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold

landscape from Hitchcock's The Birds watercolor 2023 sold