About

I usually work on small still life paintings between larger figurative works. For the past fifteen months, however, I have been working almost exclusively on paintings of fruit and flowers. I paint them from life.

My studio is on a busy street next to MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Since the shutdown, there has been a palpable silence in our usually loud and chaotic neighborhood. In the solitude that accompanies this period of Coronavirus and quarantine, it has felt appropriate to be alone in the studio with the still lifes.

Each painting takes about two days to complete. I take a long time …