2022

Singer/songwriter/musician Laurin requested I paint this portrait of him receiving inspiration from the beauty of the East Bay Hills. Laurin's a person who was born with songs in his soul; looking at the completed piece I see I was trying to express in the clear air the music that always surrounds him. I greatly admire Laurin's integrity as an artist but I perhaps did not understand the depth of my admiration until I painted his eyes. If it is true, as they say in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, that children choose their parents, I got really lucky.