I have spent 35+ years painting directly from nature. My profound love of northern California oak trees that is rooted in prolonged observation, and decades of environmental activism is at the root of the "Great Oak Series." I am not only painting the beauty and grandeur of the natural world but exploring our capacity to be in meaningful relationship with it. One could say this relationship is the subject of the work. These paintings honor the living and the dying. Starting in the mid 1990s, thousands of great oaks in Northern California have died of Sudden Oak Death (SOD). We have all been witnessing this dramatic disappearance of these beloved beings.

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