My first paintings were landscapes of the palisades,
and of the Santa Ynez peninsula...

"Throughout these many years of craft building, I have always returned to the landscape-painting for renewal and rest. As my artistic sensitivity matures, I have come to realize that the contours of the figure-study, the light in the still-life arrangement, and the textures in an abstract-composition are all echoes of the landscape: coyotes calling to the dark-blue hills." -RQ