When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them." (Nikki)

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language." (Paul Gauguin)

expressionism

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Scotch Broom: Beautiful Invasion

Friday, May 30th, 2025

 

Scotch Broom: Beautiful Invasion 02, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Scotch Broom: Beautiful Invasion (02), Oceanside beach hillside, Oregon. 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Tranquilum 2025

Monday, May 26th, 2025

 

Queenstown Peaks, New Zealand - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Queenstown Peaks, New Zealand, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Showing in Gallerium’s Tranquilum 2025 May 28 – July 28, 2025.

Doe and Fawns

Monday, May 19th, 2025

 

Doe and Fawns, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Doe and Fawns, Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton OR, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Details showing work as it progressed:

             
  Doe and Fawns, Phase 01, work in progress   Doe and Fawns, Phase 02, work in progress   Doe and Fawns, Phase 03, work in progress  

Still Smoldering

Thursday, May 15th, 2025

 

Still Smoldering, Sequoia National Park, CA - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Still Smoldering, after forest fire in Sequoia National Park, CA – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Rhododendrons

Monday, May 12th, 2025

 

Rhododendrons, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Rhododendrons, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Yellow Tulips

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

 

Yellow Tulips, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Yellow Tulips, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Landscape

Saturday, February 8th, 2025

 

Elk Falls (version 2), Vancouver Island, BC - 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W" white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Elk Falls (version 2), Vancouver Island, BC and Cape Meares Fog (Oregon), each 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Both won Honorable Mention in Teravarna Gallery’s online 11th Landscape International Juried Art Competition, February 2025.

  Cape Meares Fog OR, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W" white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.   Cape Meares Fog and Elk Falls won Honorable Mention in Teravarna Gallery's 11th Landscape International Juried Art Competition showing online, February 2025  

Flowers

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

 

Sunflowers, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W
Tulips, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33WHonorable Mention for Teravarna Exhibition 9th Flowers
Tulips and Sunflowers won Honorable Mentions and are showcased in Teravarna’s 9th Flowers Exhibition for the month of January 2025.

Both are 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Shooting Star

Saturday, December 21st, 2024

 

Shooting Star, BC wildflower, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia) BC wildflower, Vancouver Island, Canada, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

Cape Meares Fog

Saturday, December 14th, 2024

 

Cape Meares Fog - Mountain Ash, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Cape Meares Fog 02 – Mountain Ash, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. 27H x 33W inches framed size.

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