Gallery Saratoga Artist

This Cat Had a Few Lives Too

I am a 5th generation California native, whose formative years were spent on a nut farm in Ripon. I was born free in a field of joy. I experienced peace, freedom and love as a child. I grew midst jackrabbits, grapevines, walnuts and “amins”. I was comfortable with solitude. Nature entertained me. Clouds of birds nested in the nearby trees. I could catch green frogs sitting in the overflow outlets of the spillway. My life was joy and delight.

Looking back to those years I believe I lived in my essence up to age 6. I have kept that child/artist alive in my heart even though I did not earn a living as an artist; creativity and the desire to be creative have defined my life.

Although I worked doing what someone else wanted me to do, I vowed to myself, that when I retired I would devote myself to art. After a couple of years of retirement it feels that I am emerging from the cocoon as a butterfly.

Cars as Love

I am not a car-guy, I am an art-guy. My eye looks at cars for the beauty of color, line, texture and image. My cars are not about what kind of car is being photographed but what kind of feeling it evokes when viewing the image without the identification of make and model and without the ownership, but as an object d’art. These images arise out of the love the owners have given the car.

I have removed background, tires and blackened the windows to bring to the front the artistic image itself.