Florida Slash Pine Hammock

 Old Florida Slash Pine Hammock

oil/linen 24" x 12"

Old Florida Backcountry oil painting of Slash Pine

 and Saw Palmetto Forest

 Palms in the Mist

Old Florida Backcountry painting of Sabal Palm and Saw Palmetto

 in an abandoned Orange Grove

This original oil painting is 14" x 24" oil on stretched linen canvas and depicts a grove of cabbage palms and slash pine within an Everglades clearing. The day is misty and humid and a soft silvery light pervades the scene.

Naples Florida

A little sketch on panel  6"x 6" in oil of a Naples Florida house in

the prevailing Spanish style architecture so common here.

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Florida Cypress

Florida Cypress Trees

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

24" x 36"

oil on canvas

I painted this scene from sketches made on the boardwalk

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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a National Audubon Society sanctuary located in southwest Florida, north of Naples, Florida and east of Bonita Springs, in the United States. The sanctuary was established to protect one of the largest remaining stands of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and pond cypress (T. ascendens) in North America from extensive logging that was ongoing throughout the 1940s and 50s.

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Corkscrew Giants

Giant Cypresses at the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Everglades Palm Drawing

Everglades Palm

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Wolfs 6B Charcoal Pencil  and White Pastel on Canson

Palm Cottage Naples Florida

Naples Florida Palm Cottage
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I painted this view plein air, i.e., in one sitting from life, of the Naples Palm Cottage.

The Historic Palm Cottage is Naples oldest house (1895) and is proudly maintained by the Naples Historical Society and is located at 137 12th Avenue South,(at Gulfshore Blvd.) a block East of Naples Pier. On May 24, 1982, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

It was the summer cottage of the Louisville, Ky Courier Journal and Times then owner/editor, Walter N. Haldeman. Other Louisvillians owned homes in the area in this era.

The house is owned and operated as a museum by the Naples Historical Society

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I've recently formatted a new website with the emphasis on my Florida paintings.

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

A series of paintings of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

near Naples, Florida.

I've spent many hours working plein air in this magical place- looking to capture the essence of the pristine Florida wilderness- perhaps somehow witnessing through proximity to these massively giant trees that are a living link to secrets thousands of years old.

Corkscrew Sentinels

16" x 24"

Corkscrew Giants

19" x 28"

Grove of the Ancients
24" x 36"

Corkscrew Sunrise
22" x 36"

Ancient Witness
18" 26"

Falling Water S.P. Florida

Here's the finished painting of Falling Water State Park,

The painting took some time for me to capture the essence of the falls. 

The sense of the mist and the rainbow materializing in a ray of light that falls into the shaft, with ferns

 clinging to the sides of the rock. Beyond and above there is the creek that tumbles forward, yet never reaching the river as it it's fate is to be swallowed by the earth.

Falling Water
18" x 20"

Here's a version with a layer showing a slightly darker rocks.

Everglades City Sunset

Here's a plein air view from near the crab boat slips, looking toward the airport .

Everglades City Sunset

16" x 24"

oil on linen