Laurie Wyman-Heron

I purchased some watercolors by Laurie Wyman-Heron from a local gallery (now defunct) just after I moved into my house in 2000. Here are a couple of them...

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Stephen Namara

I've long been an admirer of Stephen's drawings and paintings. Finally took the plunge...

(26" x 31")

More information on Stephen here.

Peggy Huff

Peggy Huff is another artist whose work I first saw, and admired, at my brother's place. Finally got around to purchasing one of her pieces, "Ohtani Letters." (It's much more abstract than the piece my brother has.)


(It's fairly large, too. Framed: 36" x 30")

More on Peggy here.

Melissa Yarbrough

An artist whom I found via San Francisco's Open Studios, I've always enjoyed Melissa's work...


Here are a couple of smaller paintings (12" x 12")...



More on Melissa here.

Ken Cmiel

I knew Ken back when we were students at Berkeley (he and I both lived in the now infamous Barrington Hall). A helluva good guy, it shocked and saddened me to learn that he passed away in 2006 at the young age of 51.


Ken was a professor of history at the University of Iowa. After we graduated from Cal, our lives went in different directions and I eventually lost contact with him -- I last saw Ken in Chicago (where he was living with Anne and attending grad school) sometime around May/June of 1979 (when a friend of mine and I crashed at their place for a couple of nights while we were driving cross-country). I always thought of visiting again, but for whatever reason, never got around to it.

Too late now. Damn!

(More on Ken here.)

Donny Hahn

When I moved to my new digs in 2000, I immediately started looking for something to fill my blank walls. The first piece I picked up was at, of all places, the Los Altos Art and Wine festival. For whatever reason, I was really attracted to this painting by Donny Hahn. (I don't know...maybe because its colors reminded me of Maxfield Parrish.)


For more about Donny Hahn, visit Donny Hahn.

Phillip Dvorak

I've always been attracted to Phillip's work, which I first saw during 2000's Open Studios, and I've picked up a number of his drawings over the years. Here are a couple of them...



More of Phillip's work at -> Dvorak.