Group Shows: My ninety group shows include all twenty-one Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) "Ranches and Rolling Hills" exhibits (1998-2017 Nicasio, 2019 Ross); the inaugural "Marin/Scapes" exhibit and nine more, supporting Buckelew Programs for mental health; twelve "Mini" shows at Bolinas Museum, and six Baywood Artists shows supporting nature-conservation organizations, including Surfrider Foundation, Russian Riverkeeper, Marin Conservation League, and Presidio of San Francisco. I was in shows benefiting Nicasio Historical Society, Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary (San Francisco), Marin Community Foundation and Committee for Green Foothills (Woodside). One of my paintings is in the "On the Wall" lending program recently initiated by the Marin County Public Library.
Solo/Small Group: My sixty-nine solo and small-group exhibit venues include galleries in San Francisco: Jan Holloway, North Point, Bonnafont, and Bradford Smock; in Sebastopol, Sonoma County: ArtLife; in Ketchum, Idaho: Finish; in Marin County: Point Reyes National Seashore, Bolinas Museum, Sausalito Bay Model, Dance Palace, Toby's, Bradford, William Lester, California Collectors, Eileen Curtis, Claudia Chapline and my own studio/exhibit space.
Special Exhibitions: I created a four and a half by twenty foot, three-part canvas, Tomales Bay, for the Point Reyes Station branch of the Marin County Library, 1998-2003; a painting, Pastureland, represented John Burton's 3rd Senate District in the "Senate Art Collection 2000" at the California state capitol, Sacramento; and a work, California Hills, was selected for the U.S. State Department's Art in the Embassies program to hang in the residence of the ambassador to Belize, 2005-2008.
Publications: My art has appeared in the periodicals West Marin Review and Bay Nature; a calendar, Plein Air Painters of California; and a book, Ranches and Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin – A Land in Trust, by Elisabeth Ptak.
Toby's Gallery, Point Reyes Station, 2024
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