Hi, Welcome Welcome to website Version 2.0. It has been a real pain redoing this thing. I pretty much forgot everything I had learned about making a website and have had to relearn it all over aga...
Slicing open a stone reveals a natural abstraction. A partially painted canvas, hiding for millennia. I study the stone as I polish interpreting the patterns and color. Ideas flow, simple and comp...
Gemstone Mosaics, Sculpture, and “Floating Gemstone Paintings” My mind is always looking for new and unique ways to make my artistic statements by using gemstone material. I experiment...
This page showcases the handful of unique, special, one of a kind gemstones “discovered” out of the thousands I have cut. My enjoyment in cutting stones is the application of an artist...
I paint Religious pieces for two reasons. The primary reason is that what little talent I was gifted with is to paint. I am not a public speaker and certainly not a singer. Painting is how I can...
I am being asked “How do you do that?” quite a bit lately. People are probably referring to the tiny details, but after hearing the question for the dozenth time I decided to make an exp...
I have been drawing and painting figurative subjects almost since I first picked up a pencil. Some years ago I painted a few canvases that realistically portrayed a man and woman together, touching....
My wife, Yoly, is always the first person to check out the new stones after I cut them. Needless to say, if she likes them, she claims them immediately. She has good taste. Here is a gallery of ...
POINTILLISM Georges Seurat and Paul Signac are the fathers of the pointillism impressionist painting technique. I have had the luck to have seen, studied and been amazed by their work in multiple mu...
I was given this agate specimen as a gift over 30 years ago from an old rockhound I had befriended. I have no idea where it came from. I have enjoyed looking at the intricate patterns every now an...