Cheerful sunlit skies gently bask a delicate verdant landscape with accents and shadows while pinkish etherial clouds slowly inch across the distant horizon.
 

This two-part landscape set captures the essence of Pennsylvania's stately woodlands, serene wilderness, and gentle hills yielding to rugged steep slopes.Pennsylvania bore witness to a rich pageantry of our history, perhaps dating back over 15,000 years to the last glacial period.
The territory hosted several Native American tribes including the Lenape, Susquehannock, Shawneee, Erie, and Iroquois. Chartered as a Royal Colony in 1681, Pennsylvania would later serve as a nexus for the enlightenment and courageous struggle for American independence.
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From the secure vantage point on the golden orange sands of a secluded beach, the seascape expanse opens with translucent waves quietly cresting in their approach.  On the distant horizon, clouds slowly begin to gather, suggesting a sense of mystery and change.
 

The fair white-ribboned Naples coastline emerges in the distance as quiet seas transform from their blue-gray and turquoise depths to the gentle surf of a yearning beach under the azure summer sky.

Broad and fertile late summer plains stretch to distant hills in a natural mid-day landscape as lavender skies relent to gently flowing clouds.  Slowly emerging in a quiet fold, a youthful grove of emerald green trees dance and sway in the breeze.   An expansive panorama where nature and man become one in fair creation.
Part two of a two-part set.

Broad and fertile late summer plains stretch to distant hills in a natural mid-day landscape as lavender skies relent to gently flowing clouds.  An expansive panorama where nature and man become one in fair creation.
Part one of a two-part set.

In this composition, feathery, ethereal and cheerful clouds with hints of emerald and lavender dance over cerulean blue seas. 
This instant captures peace and perfect harmony of skies and seas.

This two-part landscape set captures the essence of Pennsylvania's stately woodlands, serene wilderness, and gentle hills yielding to rugged steep slopes.Pennsylvania bore witness to a rich pageantry of our history, perhaps dating back over 15,000 years to the last glacial period.
The territory hosted several Native American tribes including the Lenape, Susquehannock, Shawneee, Erie, and Iroquois. Chartered as a Royal Colony in 1681, Pennsylvania would later serve as a nexus for the enlightenment and courageous struggle for American independence.
Part 2 of 2

This seascape composition evokes the mystery of the ocean:  eternal, unpredictable, and capable of both violence and peace.  The calm waters represent the promise of opportunity, adventure, and change under the security of fair weather and magnificent sunlight.

This composition celebrates the timeless natural beauty of the golden terraces, fertile fields, rolling hills, and endless skies that grace California in warmth and light.  Paired in a two-part set including eastern and western landscape views.

This composition celebrates the timeless natural beauty of the golden terraces, fertile fields, rolling hills, and endless skies that grace California in warmth and light.  Paired in a two-part set including eastern and western landscape views.

These curious parakeets, simply perched, provide long-lasting intrigue through their flattering gaze, accented in cerulean blue against a French beige background.  

This work was inspired and adapted from the "Voynich Manuscript," a 15th century codex hand-written in an unknown writing system, which may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance.  The mystery of the meaning and origin of the manuscript has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript the subject of novels and speculation.
Venetian sea shells feature in two compositions in this collection:  Venice Four Shells and Venice Map.
Prior to emerging as a dominant military, financial, and cultural powerhouse, the ancient origins of Venice were that of a quiet maritime community of sailors and fishermen. Its name comes from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by 1,000 BC. Apart from the city-state’s many cultural and historic treasures, the beauty of nature and wonder of the seas is an integral part.
In fact, Lido de Venezia, an 11-kilometre sandbar off the southern tip of Venice, was one of Europe’s most acclaimed destinations for gathering sea shells, which inspire this composition.

This abstract features geometrically asymmetrical rectangles accented with adobe and charcoal contours against an earthen champagne background.  Cody, as this ancient namesake suggests, evokes sentiments of familiarity and helpfulness.

These abstracts evoke the mystery of ancient Aztec architectural forms and the contrasts between simple and elegant versus bold and powerful.
The Aztecan city of Tenochtitlan would become the world's largest city by the 16th century, and the seat of an expansive empire. Important features of the city included a the royal palace, a central plaza, temples, shrines, pyramids, courtyards, lush gardens, and even ball courts. While construction initiatives were limited to primitive tools and manual labor, their engineers had deployed precise mathematical techniques based on a "vigesimal" system, which is only now being understood by modern archaeologists.
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These abstracts evoke the mystery of ancient Aztec architectural forms and the contrasts between simple and elegant versus bold and powerful.
The Aztecan city of Tenochtitlan would become the world's largest city by the 16th century, and the seat of an expansive empire. Important features of the city included a the royal palace, a central plaza, temples, shrines, pyramids, courtyards, lush gardens, and even ball courts. While construction initiatives were limited to primitive tools and manual labor, their engineers had deployed precise mathematical techniques based on a "vigesimal" system, which is only now being understood by modern archaeologists.
Part 1 of 2

This early autumn, long and sweet highland landscape, perched against a quiet country road proclaims timeless tranquility and absence of mortal change.Verdant mid-day fields echoed by terracotta contours yield to a vast evergreen woodland and distant lilac hills.The viewer experiences the pure magnificence of nature's peace and a world without end in this serene landscape.

This composition highlights the intense greens, whites, blues, and earthen tones of the Alaska Range, which stretches from Lake Clark to Canada’s White River in the Yukon.
Indeed, the range features the highest mountain in all of North America—Denali (formerly Mount McKinley), with a summit elevation of over 20,300 feet.This composition dares to challenge the ancient Eskimo proverb “Even the strongest the eagle cannot soar higher than the stars.”
 

A striking seascape of an intense blue ocean quietly abates under a foreboding sky with silver-tipped distant clouds evoking a sense of wonder while the atmosphere’s highest towering clouds, the cirrocumulus, cirrus, and cirrostratus warn of impending turmoil.

This tranquil seascape features golden sandy beaches yielding to a distant azure ocean under delicate silver-tipped clouds. 
This particular composition celebrates “Cat Island,” a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico that was named for raccoons which Spanish explorers mistook for cats. 
Today, the island features sandy beaches backed by dense forests of slash pines and live oaks.