As a visual artist my disciplines include watercolor, graphic design and my profession as an architect, The reason I prefer to use watercolor is that is a forgiving medium: fast, transparent, and tends to take on a life of it's own. John Lennon wrote "life is what happens while you're making other plans." Likewise, watercolor often takes its own course as it flows where it wasn't intended. I marvel at where it leads me and delight in how colors run together and blend. What I find most interesting is how I look at ordinary things around me, trying to figure out how I could represent it in watercolor. I work quickly, which keeps the painting looking fresh and spontaneous. Watercolor for me has become anantidote to the highly technical world of architecture, much in the same way that the freestyle way in which I play didgeridoo balances the precise aspects required while performing in my brass quintet. Both approaches are necessary to achieve balance.
Guggenheim Museum
San Clemente, California
Llangollen Canal, Wales
Jerusalem Streets
Fonrigaud, Moncaret, France
Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott AZ
37 Lock Road, Ham (2001)
Piazza Navonna, Rome
Sharlot Hall Gazebo, Prescott AZ
St. Peter's from Gianicolo Hill
Dolgellau
Kaua'i in Winter
Port Isaac, Cornwall
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Calcata, Italy
Rain at Macchu Picchu
Santa Fe Sketches
Apache Lodge, Prescott AZ
Autumn at Fragrant Mountain
Gateway to Qin An Dian, Beijing
Bell Tower in Jiantian Park, Beijing
Newbridge-on-Usk, Wales
Cymru Cofiowyd - Wales Remembered
Pueblo Christmas
Arizona in Winter
A Patio
PORTRAITS
November Blooms
Su Jing
OTHER MEDIA
37 Lock Road, Ham, Richmond, Surrey (1979)
Richmond Green, England
Fonrigaud, Montcaret, France
Pen-y-bryn, Wales
Sketch of a young girl
Toucan, San Diego Zoo
photo: Toru Kawana, Tribune Newspapers