Nature Portraits – Oils, Alkyds, Acrylic paintings – Limited Edition Prints
Colors of Conch
Lac Cai is the final resting place for thousands of conch shells. Once harvested by local fishermen, the shells remain as testament to the life style of generations past. Conch is now a protected species on Bonaire.
Oil on stretched canvas
28×38″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints available in Medium $75 and Large $125
Green Spirit
Spirit Shoo Shoo, a young prikichi, clambers about the branches of a tree searching for pink flowers and seed pods. The prikichi is native to Bonaire and the Caribbean. Its common name is Caribbean Brownthroated Parakeet.
Oil on stretched canvas
24×30″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints available in Standard $95 and Large $125
Grunt School
Smallmouth grunts school in the shallows around Bonaire. In the rubble and coral lining the shore, the little grunts sway in the ebb and flow of the waves.
Oil on stretched canvas
12×18″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints available in Standard $95 and Large $125
Pomegranates
A surprise of luscious color found amid the prickles of desert plants on a kunuku. These pomegranates must have grown from discarded seeds. Just the right conditions to grow with the little bit of extra water found near the water tanks.
Oil on stretched canvas
30×18″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints in Standard $95
Hidden in the Shadows
A baby iguana barely 5 inches long holds statue still beneath the shade of a spiny tree. The bright neon green is a surprisingly good color to camouflage this little creature from its predators. As the iguana grows the bright green will fade to be replaced with bars of deep green and gray.
Oil on stretched canvas
24×34″
Gold wood frame
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition in Standard $95
Stand of Flamingos
Bonaire’s is one of the few remaining breeding grounds for the Greater Flamingo. Deep in the salinas (salt pan) the flamingos seek quiet and seclusion to build a rocky nest and lay their eggs. The parents will take turns flying to Venezuela to feed during the day.
Oil on stretched canvas
24×36″
Cherry wood frame
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints in Small $50, Medium $75 and Large $125
Slave Hut’s View
The white slave huts sit on the sea’s edge along the southern end of Bonaire. The slaves sheltered in the huts at night during their workweek in the salt pans. Their families lived in Rincon. They would walk there only on the weekends. Slavery ended on Bonaire in 1863.
Oil on stretched canvas
30×20″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints in Small $50, Medium $75 and Standard $95
A Mother’s Presence
A mother donkey is keeping watch over her 10 day old baby. A baby donkey is covered in very soft fuzzy fur. Most babies are quite a bit darker than their parents maybe to be better hidden within the shadows of a bush. This mother and baby live at the Donkey Sanctuary Bonaire.
Oil on stretched canvas
34×32″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints in Small $50, Medium $75, and Large $125
Creole Cleaning
The deep facial mark matched with the pinkish purple scales of the Creole Wrasse is a very distinctive fish on the reef. Schools will migrate pass the reef slope in an endless train of fish. These fish have stopped at a cleaning station to allow a juvenile Spanish Hogfish the opportunity to pick out the parasites from inside their gills.
Oil on stretched canvas
22×30″
Original SOLD
Signed limited edition prints in Standard $95 and Large $125
Single Hibiscus
Hibiscus flowers abound on Bonaire with the many hues of reds and corals. The flower is a very fleeting thing usually lasting only a day or two. Yet the plant always seems to in bloom with more flowers to enjoy each day.
Oil on stretched canvas
18×24″
White wash gray wood frame
Original $864
Signed limited edition prints in Standard $95