
Portfolio of works
My deep Hawaiian Island roots play a big part in my painting, as does my love for the magnificent American West. I find I am most drawn to farm and ranch lands, mountains and country roads, and coastal scenes, probably because they make me feel most at home when I am lost in them. My style wanders with my mood, always on the road to new discovery. I love color. I appreciate simplicity, although finding it is not always easy. I collect original paintings of artists I admire and who reflect my own artistic yearnings, paintings that stop me, that capture me, that move me.
This collection represents the serpentine path I have taken on my quest of constant discovery as an artist. Enjoy!
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Huntsville Cows
NARRATIVE COMING…

Happy Day
NARRATIVE COMING…

Bovine Pastoral
NARRATIVE COMING…

Van Gogh, Van Sandy
When I paint, or write, or make music … of course I want others to like it, even love it. But if no one does, that’s okay. My joy and my self worth are no longer tied to external validation. I do what I do because what I do is who I am. I do what I do to engage with my life, to experience it, to honor the greatest gift I was ever given.

Grandma’s Potting Shed
NARRATIVE COMING…

Gummy Grove
I view “Gummy Grove” as the painting that marks my having started down a road less traveled in my life, a road lined with more peace, more love, and more courage. In my studio, I’m feeling lighter, and snappier, as if I am breaking in a pair of brand new, wildly colorful shoes. And for whatever reason, I’m finally feeling good about sharing the story of the most significant moment of my life, bar none.

Tuesday Afternoon

Return to the Desert

Jackson School Road

Island Morning

Heading Home Warrenton

Hanson's Green Mountain

Evening Ride

Down in the Valley

Destarte

Breeze

Beyond the Far Blue Mountains

Ogden Green

Moving Waters
The last two emotions I want to feel when my turn comes to journey beyond this world and into the next, are wonder and love … together … and in their sweetest, purest, most peaceful and all-encompassing forms. Until then, the closest I have ever gotten to that ultra-human realm is when I have unconditionally given of myself to another human being. One unexpected moment stands among my most treasured memories.
