Old Florida Corkscrew Swamp Sentinels

 Corkscrew Swamp Sentinels

Giant Bald Cypress at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary near Naples, Florida
oil/linen 16" x 24"

Florida Slash Pine Hammock

 Florida Slash Pine Hammock

Old Florida Backcountry Painting of Florida Slash Pine

 and Saw Palmetto Forest

24" x 12" oil/linen

Everglades City Town Hall

A painting that I made plein air of city hall in Everglades City, Florida. Rapidly vanishing old Florida in the middle of the Everglades.

High and Dry

This is a painting I made plein air at the Conservancy of Southwest Flordia in Naples, Florida. Not far from the Carribean Gardens zoo, the conservancy occupies the Flieischman property which once was vast orange groves. As I was painting this scene I became lost in thought, as plein air painters often will, to be startled back into reality by the roaring of a lion. My first thought was that it must be a Florida panther and I kind of freaked. After a moment , I realized it was coming from the zoo, but the sound of the roaring lion carried through the orange groves and palms and really sounded like it was very close!

Honeymoon Island.

North of Clearwater is a favorite place of mine. It;s called Honeymoon Island and there I can indulge in painting one of my most favorite motifs- palm trees.