Personal Narrative When California Was Golden

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ARTIST STATEMENT Asked why I paint, the answer eludes me. As a writer of more than 70 published fiction and nonfiction books, I cannot answer the question as to why I write. Why would painting be any easier? My style is straight forward. I want the viewer, the “reader” of my paintings, to be able to “walk” into the art, to travel a trail, to smell the sage-filled breeze of the high desert and watch the sunrise looking toward Anacapa Island. “When California Was Golden” is a reflection of the late 1950s and 1960 and my childhood in Santa Barbara and Southern California. Therefore, I paint because: I must. (That sounds trite.) I enjoy the process. (That sounds facetious.) I find it fun. (Fun trivializes the experience.) There is something,

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