A Painting for Carol

Yesterday, a dear friend, Carol Bentley came to my home in Queen Creek, Arizona. She had just bought a sweet little home in Saint George, Utah and wanted a painting that would brighten and bring cheer to her new environment and choose this floral watercolor painting for her living room. Of course it will look stunning all framed and hanging on her wall!

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Hewitt Canyon Rider

I have known intimately the joy of exploring on horseback the mountain trails of the Superstitions and San Tan Mountains with their warm winds, Javelina and the bounding desert jacks. Red tailed hawks soar above the brilliant Ocotillo and California springtime poppies. My paintings reflect the reverence I feel for this magnificent country and the riders who explore her winding and elusive trails.

My genesis is the set of "Anything Goes", where my father, Les Clark, the first of the Nine Old Men at Disney Studios, met my mother, Miriam Marlin, a 1934 Wampus Baby star. I "grew up" under a movieola at Walt Disney's studio.

I have been part of the High Sonoran Desert for many years, finding inspiration for vibrant and textured paintings of modern riders of the contemporary Southwest. I like to work bold and spontaneous, yet love using gentle and elusive passages of intricate splashes of turquoise, gamboges and vermillion.

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Hewitt Canyon Rider