Bro Paul Brennan in Eldoret

This is a news video about the recent violence in Eldoret Kenya. Brother Paul Brennan is interviewed in this piece. He founded and runs the Patrician Primary School at Kabongo near Eldoret. I am pleased to announce that Cay Drachnik, Kathy Young Ross and I are working with Barton Gallery in Sacramento on an art show of our paintings of Africa to raise badly needed funds for the Patrician Primary School at Kabongo. The show will open with an Artist Reception August 8 and run through September 8, 2009 at Barton Gallery, 1723 I Street, Sacramento, California. More details to come...

The Art Loop was great, now its time to pack

The Loomis Art Loop Open Studio tour was a great weekend, but now it is over and so time for this sunflower painting to go the the gallery. I hung it today in my studio in the back of Elliott Fouts Gallery, and it will soon be on his website. Loomis Art Loop is an annual Mother's Day event here in the Loomis Basin where my home studio is located. We think we had around 200 visitors, and 3 original paintings went home to live with new owners. Loads of prints and cards also went to new homes which is always gratifying as it shows that people like my paintings.

Now I am racing around trying to get ready to leave for a painting trip to Italy and then to teach a painting workshop put on by the wonderful small group tour company called "French Escapade" in the French Alps.

I plan to blog as I travel, posting photos and paintings as go, so stay tuned here!

This painting is called "Radient" it is a watercolor image size 18" x 24" princed at $850. framed.
Inquiries to Elliott Fouts Gallery 916-736-1429.

Loomis Art Loop Update

The first day of the Loomis Art Loop is over and Linda and I have our feet up. This little painting has a new home in the Bay Area. We had great fun meeting lots of new art lovers, and visiting with old friends.

Hope to see you tomorrow, from 10:00am to 5:00pm. We would love to see Mom on her special day.

Disappearing Landscapes Show in Auburn, California

I am posting the Red Barn at Labadie Farm again to remind everyone that the Disappearing Landscapes Show to benefit the Placer Land Trust is still hanging at Latitudes Restaurant, 130 Maple Street in Auburn, California.

The curator Rosie Stillwell invited the top artists in the County to be in this show and the artists stepped up to the plate big time. Their work is wonderful!

But the public has been slow in discovering this show, only two pieces have sold so far. The Red Barn is still waiting to go home with someone. It is framed in a very cute shadow box frame (the image is 6' x 6") and is priced at $250.00. To purchase the Red Barn email Rosie Stillwell at rosie@PlacerArts.org of call her at 530-885-5670.

I really do hope that you will visit Latitudes and see the show, as there are so many good pieces there just waiting for you. If you go, there is parking next to the restaurant in a lot, and you can enter through the Bistro, see the art there, and then come up stairs to the restaurant to view the rest of the show.

My Latest print and card image

"Pots" St. Paul de Vence, France is my latest small print and card. It is so new it is not on my website, so those of you coming to my studio this coming weekend during the Loomis Art Loop will get to see it first.

This darling window with the cute pot collection drew many of my students to paint it during a painting trip to the French Riviera a couple of years ago. In fact so many were crowded around the window, that I painted a door further down the square. I took some photos and knew that sooner or later I would get around to painting that darling French window with the pots. The original is only 6" x 6" and I am saving it for a future show.

Don't forget the Open Studio Tour called the Loomis Art Loop is this coming weekend, Saturday May 10 and Sunday May 11, 10:00 - 5:00 each day. Free maps can be downloaded from com/">http://www.loomisartloop>com.