https://www.davidfink.com/welcome daily 1.0 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/508ef928-79bf-4daf-a63a-f370fcb3b534/ZonalC.jpg Welcome Zonal Chair from the Variety page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a64985ce-d171-4ab9-a235-5eb62befc02a/Tavira.jpg Welcome Tavira Portugal from the Buildings page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f3afcb5a-58c7-45f4-9321-67274d1130a5/CastroFP.jpg Welcome Castro Fire Hydrant from the Variety page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a608df32-36d2-4aea-b7a1-a236afc78b9f/OakTreeSpring.jpg Welcome Oak Tree in Spring from the Landscapes page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/cccd2cd5-7ee4-4391-b409-1613f6b944e8/Bunky.jpg Welcome Bunky from the Variety page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6bc3dd25-b3fc-4c70-aa11-93dd7e28be53/TaylorsK.jpg Welcome S&P shakers from the Variety page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/1a2ae761-92b8-4388-ad89-ce476b329de9/Face.jpg https://www.davidfink.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-02-17 https://www.davidfink.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/1a2ae761-92b8-4388-ad89-ce476b329de9/Face.jpg https://www.davidfink.com/buildings daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a9679083-1898-4f89-a7ab-b26a1ff58218/Home.jpg Buildings Belfast Maine Home 16x20 2025. Oil on canvas board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/e3f54144-2985-4553-a995-02df4141d470/Lassatt_Alley_Garage.jpg Buildings Laussat Alley San Francisco 11x14 2025. Oil on canvas board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/4fd51257-4be5-468a-bc0d-e16c3a754b11/Outrigger_new.jpg Buildings The Mark Thomas Outrigger (now named the Fish Hopper) on Cannery Row, Monterey CA 11x14 2024. Acrylic on board. This was the access point to get into an abandoned cannery. My brother and I would climb under the Outrigger restaurant at low tide and then climb up into the abandoned cannery – sometimes with our cousins or friends. It was spooky and exciting – the broken windows, missing floorboards, the dilapidated conveyer belts and other machinery. Our mother told us that as a young girl, she and her mother had, at some point, worked in the Canneries. If I recall correctly, my brother enjoyed going to the little beach next to the Outrigger (McAbee beach). The Outrigger restaurant is no more, but the building still exists and is currently called the Fish Hopper restaurant (2024). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9ad3c0e8-bfb1-4547-aaf4-653a0d888000/HHouse.jpg Buildings The Harbor House Gift store, Wharf #1, Monterey CA 11x14 2024. Acrylic on board. Harbor House Gifts sits at the entrance to Wharf #1 in Monterey. Wharf #1 is filled with restaurants, candy shops, gift shops, whale watching tour boats and more. When my brother and I were children, our family would go to the wharf to walk its length, passing the big pink building at the entrance, its windows filled with trinkets that tantalized the imagination and with a Disneyland-like lighthouse on top. Later, my brother would take some of his children to the wharf and would often go to spend time socializing with many of the business owners. I believe that my grandmother may have told me she briefly worked at the gift shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9d5d2ac-5117-4134-9a98-a2c5c345179d/Wharf2.jpg Buildings The Monterey Fish Company, Wharf #2, Monterey CA 11x14 2024. Acrylic on board. I call this painting, ‘Waiting for the fish to come in’. Our family would go fishing and crabbing off Wharf #2, taking our catch home for our mother to serve up for dinner. We would often go to Wharf to walk its length, or to the beach at the base of the pier. On clear days, we could see our neighborhood in the distance up on the hill in Seaside (not indicated in the painting). In May 2021 I took my mother to the Wharf. She loved seeing the boats and being around the ocean. Less than a year later she would have a stroke and within 7 months passed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ac5c68c7-4e1e-4525-805c-3ad06aaf90e5/CandyStore.jpg Buildings The Carousel Fine Candies store, Wharf #2, Monterey CA 11x14 2024. Acrylic on board. My favorite shop on Wharf #1 was the Candy shop. My family would always stop by Carousel Candy to pick up some saltwater taffy, a candy apple and/or sometimes cotton candy. Later as a father, my brother would take some of his children to the wharf, continuing the tradition of indulging his kids, and himself, with some sweets. This is still my favorite shop on the wharf! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/2cb8222b-04ef-4197-9afc-aef1c177e04d/Final+Painting.JPG Buildings Cherry Grove Cottage, Fire Island NY. 11x14 2024. Oil on Board. I created a painting for a couple who let me stay at their Hell’s Kitchen apartment during my recent travels. The painting is a representation of the main room of the cottage they have stayed at on Cherry Grove Fire Island each summer for many years. It includes added elements referencing some of their current life events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/047a01b2-d610-4595-b534-211b96fe543f/HHouse1.jpg Buildings Hansel House (built 1924), Carmel CA, 43x48 2003. Oil on Canvas. Driving around Carmel one day, I spied this house, and thought of how it looked like a fairy tale cottage. I decided to paint the house pulling in memories and emotions of past times in Carmel. I also wanted to have fun with this painting, and I did. This was the first Carmel home in the series, but others were to follow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f85eef0e-8f8c-4fea-8859-2b0897eb47fe/HHouse2.jpg Buildings Hansel House Carmel CA, 36x36 2004. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9716fe7c-1313-4efa-8b3c-68e49435d007/CarmelHouse.jpg Buildings Carmel House on Foggy Day, Carmel CA, 36x36 2004. Oil on Canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9ab5fae2-6136-4651-a846-8d89b508dc64/SFishHouse.jpg Buildings Starfish House Carmel CA, 36x36 2004. Oil on Canvas. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6f2790ed-0d99-4742-aac9-6ccdd4cdb85b/FLWHouse.jpg Buildings Abstracted FLW House Carmel CA, 36x36 2004. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ea0f4d18-6e1d-43d4-9db2-913229edafa0/AD1.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #1, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. Green and yellow. The city of Seaside grew up around a military base called Fort Ord. These homes were built for those moving into Seaside while working at the Army base. My stepfather built some of these homes. Me and my brother would join him sometimes and see the house evolve from the foundation up. These houses have a quality that is once toy-like in their simplistic style and yet define a period and style of post war housing in Seaside and a time now past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3003336d-a349-47ff-95d9-3e4140e9a9ec/AD2a.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #2, Seaside CA,16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. While gathering images of houses to paint for this series, I came across this house which I had not noticed before. Though small, a family lived there, and the mom was out in her car putting on make-up when I drove by to take this picture. This house was close to where my mother was living at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/aaf4509e-5b28-4d2e-998d-170ff892efe9/AD3a.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #3, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. I wondered if this house had been converted from something else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3db1bb0c-18b7-4b0d-9f07-7a97b7fb9753/AD4a.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #4, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6ed05ba0-0760-4820-86f8-dca198a49b1a/AD5a.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #5, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. This one I wanted to capture at a slightly different angle to show the houses in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/346e5503-61cc-4d3e-9149-33bd158e8897/AD6a.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #6, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. Another, where the placement of the mailbox just seems funny, but efficient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/525a85bc-7ab5-4ebb-9f71-c92135069437/AD7a.jpg Buildings In Search of the American Dream, Seaside House #7, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. And another...angles and more angles with vertical and horizontal lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0b646470-f147-4c43-a04b-2faa795dd88f/SeasideRT.jpg Buildings Seaside Rooftops, Seaside CA, 16x20 1998. Oil on Canvas. This was the view over the back of my mother’s last husband’s home before he passed away. This little peek-o-boo look of the neighbors, whoever they were. It was always odd to me that in a small town like Seaside, houses were shoved up next to each other and many people don’t even know their neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/bdd976ab-a738-4c80-abe5-b886cf9813a0/CarrolStB.jpg Buildings Carrol Street, Brooklyn, 18x24 2000. Oil on Canvas. As sometimes happens to remind us all of how magical life is if we just observe, I was randomly walking through a Brooklyn neighborhood exploring the buildings for potential future paintings, looking at how the morning light was hitting the buildings, when I turned down one street and noticed a young lady coming out, walking down her steps and onto the street - walking in the same direction I was heading. I thought there was something familiar about her build and her walk. As I quickened my pace to get a closer look, I thought this woman moves like Erica Bell, a girl I went to Jr. High and High School with who had moved to NYC but I had lost contact. As I got closer, aware that most New Yorkers are very conscious of who is around, I tried to verify my suspicion before I got too close. As luck would have it, or her concern of me coming up behind her, she turned her head ever so slightly, and I was able to confirm it was Erica. In calling out her name, she turned, and we were both struck with surprise and wonderment. This painting reminds me of that moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/2f7f640a-2665-487a-9dc6-98543067cc7b/StMarks1.jpg Buildings St. Marks Place #1 N.Y.C, 11x14 1996. Oil on Canvas. On a winter day, grey and overcast, walking by this building the red doors vibrated with color against the brownstone. The building had inches of paint covering the walls and the door, the sidewalks worn from decades of use, but it seemed inviting and in contrast to the harsh cold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b22a6218-b8fa-420e-a9fc-73d6ad2de75c/StMarks2.jpg Buildings St. Marks Place #2, N.Y.C, 11x14 1996. Oil on Canvas. Ah Manhattan, and specifically St. Marks Place. Each year traveling to NYC to see my friends, walking through this section of town, whether it be Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, these buildings and the architecture, so different from San Francisco – always capture my fascination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7df939ee-8ba0-40cc-b4de-86a8b19000ba/FHouseDoors.jpg Buildings Firehouse Doors N.Y.C, 40x42 1998. Oil on Canvas. On another trip to NYC, walking around Chelsea, this Firehouse vignette captured my eye; the red doors, the green light cast on the windows, the blue awning...a door within a door. I later heard this Firehouse had been turned into an upscale restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7ea5c1dd-32e7-477c-bf42-ea1b5058fcdc/Dumbo.jpg Buildings DUMBO, Brooklyn,18x20 1999. Oil on Canvas. My friend from college - Tim Bower and I switched apartments for a month in August. My goal was to paint and live my days and nights with a focus on immersing myself in exploring the NYC area and capturing visually as much as I could of that Summer; the sights, sounds, smells. This building was eventually converted to high priced lofts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/973ca4be-9770-436f-9a63-baf424ce4f4e/JackHts.jpg Buildings Jackson Heights, Queens, 30x40 1999. Oil on Canvas. During the Summer of 1999, exploring, meeting new people, I ventured out to Jackson Heights many times. On this day, with the hot sun beating down midday, very few people out, I was struck that for a city with millions of people, there are moments of stillness and solitude. Looking out over the top of the canopy, I imagined hundreds of people in their rectangle rooms, in their brownstone air-conditioned boxes. I outside, found the light and heat made everything resonate with vibration. Unfortunately this painting was destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0c6d9ecf-d4e4-4636-91d9-f742b60c0f75/Tribeca.jpg Buildings Tribeca, N.Y.C, 22x28 2000. Oil on Canvas. During a Summer in NYC, I wandered down to Tribeca and reminisced of my time in 1991 when I had swapped apartments with my friend Tim. This Flatiron building for me captured the essence of the buildings in that area and reminded me of times back in 1991. This is one of my favorite paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/974eeb46-2ea2-4b41-ba58-1cfc09f03e3b/DryCreek.jpg Buildings Dry Creek Gas Station, Rt. 66, Newberry Springs, CA, 30x40 2000. Oil on Canvas. This and the Diner painting were the two paintings from this series that to this day I consider some of my best works for this style. Once again, when driving with my mother on that Rt. 66 trip, shortly after taking a picture of the previous abandoned gas station, I had her pullover so I could take pictures of this one as well. I love this painting. I ended up painting close ups of each gas pump (see the artwork in my Variety work page). My good friend Keith owns this painting now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/af1472db-1d14-4abd-9c00-bb1fb63a59fc/Diner66.jpg Buildings Diner on Rt. 66, Holbrook NM, 24x36 2000. Oil on Canvas. My mother and I decided to drive to see my brother in Oklahoma and on the way, she indulged me in frequent stops to take photographs. This was one of the first stops where I yelled “STOP - turn around”. We drove into the dusty parking lot of this abandoned diner. The first of many images of a time that was now being shut down, abandoned, and most likely to be replaced by something new. It was warm and the air was full of the smell of sage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b1e9c22b-5c61-45b6-8ceb-42091aab2421/AGasStation.jpg Buildings Abandoned Gas Station, Rt. 66, Newberry Springs, CA, 22x28 2000. Oil on Canvas. Another image from the Rt. 66 road trip with my mother. Though once this must have been a diner and gas station, now it seemed to be someone’s home based on the items I could see inside through the windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/13fc8cda-e768-4c65-bf09-b7fea7db872f/Donuts.jpg Buildings Donut shop, West Texas, 16x16 2000. Oil on Canvas. Continuing that road trip with my mother heading to Oklahoma, we passed this little convenience store somewhere in West Texas that had a sign reading Donuts which we found funny in its spelling and its size in relationship to the size of the building. No, we did not go in and try their Do-nuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d9567c28-5f6f-4f90-966d-fb488d73daa8/Georges.jpg Buildings Georges Radiator Works, Pauls Valley OK, 24x30 2000. Oil on Canvas. On that same summer road trip with my mother, after arriving in the small town where my brother lives, I took a few days to drive around in the morning and evening light to take photographs of the buildings and came across this building. In some way it was a tribute to my friend George back in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a3d36854-7c1c-4158-90b3-ab899ed03f18/DairyTwist.jpg Buildings Dairy Twist, Pauls Valley, OK, 24x36 2000. Oil on Canvas. On that same road trip with my mother, while in Pauls Valley, I took this picture of the Dairy Twist that closed due to competition from a Sonic Burger joint down the street. On a recent trip back to visit my brother, I saw the business had re-opened. This painting was somewhat challenging due to all the red poles breaking up the background. In the end I had fun with it by making the trees reflect the shape of the Ice Cream cones on top of the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c931840d-a366-4a38-908f-314b3414bf9e/Pecan.jpg Buildings Pecan Valley, Pauls Valley, OK, 16x20 2000. Oil on Canvas. While visiting my brother in Pauls Valley the contrast of the brick building on the left and the stucco building on the right struck me. Pecan trees are quite prevalent in Pauls Valley, and my brother told me people can take their unshelled Pecans to this place and pay $1 a pound to have the shells removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f133b393-4bca-4eec-8a6d-763a3396f269/BibleWayWS.jpg Buildings Bible Way Holy Temple, Winston-Salem, NC, 22x28 2000. Oil on Canvas. On one of my trips to North Carolina, walking around Winston-Salem, the summer sun heating up the afternoon, I was struck by the simplistic beauty of this place of worship, its pristine white facade and the red lamp-post out front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/39fa04a0-8274-48c1-bf26-fe191044458b/YadkinChurch.jpg Buildings Yadkin Full Gospel Church, Charlotte NC, 11x14 2000. Oil on Canvas. I took a trip that same year to visit friends in North Carolina mainly staying in the Greensboro and Winston-Salem area but one day I traveled down to visit my friend Chris in Charlotte and he drove me around so I could take photographs of some of the older buildings. This building had a touch of Gothic feel about it due to the windows, but otherwise it was simple in architecture, providing space for worship. I find this painting very peaceful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/206fd112-7cf4-472d-a953-9d33f4afdcc2/HValley1.jpg Buildings Hayes Valley #1, Hayes Valley, San Francisco CA,16x20 1992. Oil on Canvas. In Hayes Valley this old building had settled in the ground and was slightly askew. It had been painted with a color combination unlike any other buildings surrounding it. There was something about it, its age, the simplicity of shapes that resonated with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/47ec5177-0099-43cf-bb4b-f32d53104905/RobertsP.jpg Buildings Roberts Place, Hayes Valley, San Francisco CA,16x20 1992. Oil on Canvas. This was the view from my Hayes Valley apartment at the corner of Hayes and Octavia, where I lived for 7 years. Robert was the young man that lived in the apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6d76e301-1a5b-47f6-82ce-8640ded677d1/Arcata.jpg Buildings Arcata on a foggy day, Humboldt CA, 8x10 ~1998. Oil on Canvas. On a visit up to Humboldt CA to visit a friend, walking around on a foggy overcast day, I came across this Auto Body shop that seemed to be converted into a living space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a64985ce-d171-4ab9-a235-5eb62befc02a/Tavira.jpg Buildings Casa das Artes de Tavira, 16x26 2021. Oil on canvas. In Oct 2019 I traveled with a group of friends to beautiful Tavira Portugal and one day while walking around admiring the beauty, we passed this building with red doors. I was quite taken by it and snapped a couple of pictures. The images of the white building and red doors stuck with me and finally bubbled up in my mind to where I needed to get my impression of what I saw on canvas. In doing research into what that building might be, I found it was the Tavira Arts Gallery. Kismet! I enjoyed this painting tremendously in that I not only love the image, but it reminds me of those beautiful slow-paced days in Tavira, the friendly people, the Sangria, the Mojama and the beach. No sooner had the painting been considered complete, Walter, a good friend saw it and fell in love with it. So, it already has a new home, and Walter hopes to get to Tavira post pandemic to see Tavira for himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/bb0cf2f2-5eb4-4259-880b-edfe0c72d2eb/OceanPPR.jpg Buildings Ocean Park, Puerto Rico, 40x42 1997. Oil on Canvas. On my first of two trips to Puerto Rico while visiting friends in NYC during Winter, I was struck by the Mediterranean (I assumed) quality of the buildings and their color. But, I had never seen such a disparity between social/economic classes before. Where I was staying, my little retreat with its tiny but clean rooms, was surrounded by houses with high walls with cut glass crowning the top to deter vandals. I found this image and its orderliness calming and yet somewhat desperate. I love the color play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/452ded39-030e-428b-b88e-2a568104e787/OldSJPR.jpg Buildings Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, 40x42 1997. Oil on Canvas. Walking around in Old San Juan, once again taken by the colors, the light, the simple architecture, and the amazing blue paving stones. Unfortunately, this painting was destroyed when it was blown out of a truck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b4fe4036-13d2-447e-a492-e95db1205112/Hotel.jpg Buildings HOTEL, Patagonia, 24x36 2000. Oil on Canvas. This is one of the rare paintings I created from a photograph someone else took. A friend of a friend had taken this picture while on a trip in Patagonia and asked if I would be interested in doing the painting. I was and I did...and to this day I wonder what it was like inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/84b4fdb6-f7be-4a5a-8eb2-730cc793845b/Smoking.jpg Buildings Smoking, 24x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. This is the view from my urban balcony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d10dc844-20db-425f-bfd8-df02afe8db4b/FLLH.jpg Buildings Fire Island Lighthouse, 16x20 2000. Oil on Canvas. A commission for Tata. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6dd82d12-a10c-4d66-abc4-f671dee08b9a/CityScape.jpg Buildings Cityscape for Sergio, 57x32 2022. Acrylic on Canvas. Sergio, A pen pal in Lima Peru showed me a reproduction of a painting he was interested in for over his teal blue sofa in his new condo and we both agreed that the dimensions of reproduction were too small for that space. Since I was looking for subject matter for my next painting, I volunteered to create something similar but larger for the space and with more color. Since I did not want it to become too precious, I used acrylic and reverted to a more graphic style I have used before. I was able to complete the painting over a few weekends, had fun doing it and it is now at home in Lima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/4e75b05c-c71b-4b57-b1ef-f762d3c7440b/Twins.jpg Buildings The Twins NY, 63x22 2000. Oil on Canvas. During that Summer in 1999, my good friend Frank has a twin brother Gerard (also my friend), both are tall, nearly 6’5” or so. Their mother had passed away, and coming back on the Staten Island Ferry I captured this image which symbolically for me represented the brothers and their mother (the small building in between). As we all know, soon tragedy would strike our country and these buildings and many lives and loved ones would no longer be with us. Frank has this picture. https://www.davidfink.com/links daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3e366eec-865d-4b42-961b-b0cc9b9def6e/Pallett.jpg https://www.davidfink.com/landscapes daily 0.75 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/71d9cd1f-4c38-49af-a744-0ff7d1b68a7e/Week-One-MarsPlants.jpg Landscapes ‘Mars’ plants in a desert landscape, 12x16 2025. Oil on canvas board. Rising as a solitary stalk from the sandy soil of Seaside, California, one of my mother’s favorite plants—the Aeonium Black Rose succulent—earned her nickname “the Mars plant” for its twisting, otherworldly forms that seemed to belong to another planet. In this painting, I reimagine those strange, sculptural blooms transplanted into an invented Palm Springs desert, where their dark rosettes stand in surreal contrast against sun washed playa and rocky hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/dadccc2b-6a0a-4473-9963-0e22f4cbb668/Week-Two-Trees.jpg Landscapes Lakeshore Trees and distant hills 11x14 2025. Oil on canvas board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/99882b5a-e686-46aa-bf64-3b7dec95aac1/Week-Three-PG.jpg Landscapes Pacific Grove shoreline 8x10 2025. Oil on canvas board. o In spring, as you wander the coastal road between Monterey and Pacific Grove and drift past Lovers Point, the vibrant purple pink blooms of the Drosanthemum floribundum ice plant spill across the ground in a breathtaking “Magic Carpet.” It always amazes me that something so vivid and delicate can flourish along such a rocky, windswept coastline, turning the rugged shore into a moment of pure color and wonder. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7b422bef-6d71-467d-82de-da50f92b0e0a/windswept_web.jpg Landscapes Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Windswept - Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025 Growing up in the Monterey Bay area, I was captivated by the brilliant transformation of coastal ice plants in the summertime — its vivid hues igniting the landscape with bursts of color. In my Central California Ice Plant series, I sought to preserve that fleeting beauty, capturing the striking interplay between the jewel-toned ice plant, the golden sand dunes, and the deep, shifting blues of Monterey Bay. Beyond the palette, this series is a tribute to a place that has shaped me, reflecting not just the visual splendor of the coastline but the deep personal connection I hold to it. There are four paintings in this series: Windswept, Wanderer, Vista, and Transitions. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d686f52f-65ca-4a05-809e-711e46775b0c/vista_web.jpg Landscapes Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Vista - Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025 (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/34a6ee44-69a4-4516-b54d-d2573dbba5df/transitions_web.jpg Landscapes Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Transitions - Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025. o Part of a four piece series, this painting draws from my childhood spent roaming the sand dunes of Seaside and Marina. Each year, the ice plants scattered across the dunes would erupt into vibrant blossoms—pinks, yellows, oranges, and reds in the spring—before shifting into deep, rusty tones in the fall. The interplay between the ice plants, the pale sand, and the endless ocean has always felt breathtaking to me. This piece captures that fleeting moment of summer’s transition, when the colors begin to shift and the season quietly turns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9ff5bd66-e7b3-40f3-90f6-3cd440d708bd/Wanderer_web.jpg Landscapes Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Wanderer- Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025 (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a4328e58-4257-4878-93a4-e7c054071e5a/SR_ForWeb.jpg Landscapes Snoopy Rock, 11x14 2023. Oil on Board. Having been to the Sedona and Prescott area, I had wanted to do a painting of those red rock formations. When a friend suggested a painting of Snoopy Rock outside of Sedona AZ, I decided once I finished the Monterey Cypress Trees, Snoopy Rock would be next. It was a joy to paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/1bb956f9-0c47-414a-add6-b71b8a16ba1d/Carmel_ForWeb.jpg Landscapes Monterey Cypress Tree - Carmel Beach view, 11x14 2023. Oil on Board. When my mother passed away in October 2022, some close friends gave me a Cypress Bonsai in memory of her. On the first Mother’s Day after her passing, I visited her grave in Seaside and then went to Carmel Beach with its white sand to reflect on her passing and a future without her. As is common along the coast, the fog had just come in and I could barely distinguish the boundaries between the sand, ocean, and sky. The fog loomed off the coast like some specter struggling to overtake the coastline for the evening. The Monterey Cypress trees lining Carmel Beach, enveloped in the fog, seemed to take on the role of an old sentinel overlooking the beach - comforting. These trees had been there long before I was born and will be there well after I too shall pass. I was emotionally moved by these trees that can live up to 300 years and have spiritual meaning: ‘…a symbol of immortality as an emblem of eternal life after death…’ I felt compelled to try to capture these sentinels - their beauty, strength, and the comfort they bring me. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/8b6d0a46-9014-43ab-be60-b8a5a7e836d9/LandsEnd_ForWeb.jpg Landscapes Monterey Cypress Tree - Lands End view, 11x14 2023. Oil on Board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/30002919-d93f-439f-9d6f-4102ef513126/MTTam_ForWeb.jpg Landscapes Monterey Cypress Tree - Mt. Tam view, 11x14 2023. Oil on Board. All around Monterey and Carmel, the cypress trees reveal how decades of coastal wind and fog have sculpted these natural icons. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f8491619-284a-4ca9-9021-a976a68f5969/CLNWinter.jpg Landscapes Central California Landscape at Night - in Winter, 16x24 2013. Oil on Canvas. I painted this night series during a friend’s battle with ALS. I glazed them a bit too much which made them very dark – I was in a sad mood. When complete, I was tempted to paint over them, but friends talked me out of it saying they were beautiful with the right lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f9595b32-df54-4de1-b3ce-5c2fd0cfbe18/CLNSpring.jpg Landscapes Central California Landscape at Night - in Spring, 16x24 2013. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/fa4fc188-fbd1-402f-93c2-beecf220b353/CLNSummer.jpg Landscapes Central California Landscape at Night - in Summer, 16x24 2013. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f8a7a8d3-64bb-46f5-abb2-677ef5c8d50e/CLNFall.jpg Landscapes Central California Landscape at Night - in Fall, 16x24 2013. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/628fa38f-4156-430c-85b6-2aa6d6e33392/Lettucefield_night_winter.jpg Landscapes Central California landscape - Lettuce field in Winter at night, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. I decided to do another California landscape series, a few years had passed since my good friend lost his battle with ALS and I wanted to make a series that was a bit brighter and uplifting. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/bda03e36-cc54-4d25-bb77-8932b388aee3/LettuceField_Spring.jpg Landscapes Central California landscape - Lettuce field in Spring, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. Part of the four-season series—Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall—this piece reflects the landscape that shaped my earliest memories. I grew up surrounded by endless rows of lettuce, artichokes, brussels sprouts, strawberries, and more vegetables than I could ever name. My grandparents sometimes worked those fields for a bit of extra income, and every so often my mother would return home with a handful of leftover produce gathered from land already harvested. Whenever I look out over fields like these, I feel something settle inside me—a quiet, unmistakable sense of belonging.(Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/cc15eb9c-5a37-4594-b1ba-cf52f70c7667/lettucefield_summer.jpg Landscapes Central California landscape - Lettuce field in Summer, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas.(Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a179536f-f881-498a-baef-4d965839c30a/lettucefield_fall.jpg Landscapes Central California landscape - Lettuce field in Fall, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5245a5f5-1bc5-4694-82b3-8ce4a9e4c45b/winter.jpg Landscapes California live Oak Tree, Winter at night, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. After doing the 2017 California landscape series, I felt I had not done the Oak trees justice, and I love the shapes of these trees, so I did another series with the focus being the trees. These are some of my favorites. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f5400209-19c5-47ee-82e9-10b74f72f170/Spring.jpg Landscapes California live Oak Tree, Spring, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. Part of the four-season series—Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall—this piece reflects the landscape of my childhood near Del Rey Oaks. Coast Live Oaks were everywhere back then, their sturdy trunks and twisting branches inviting endless afternoons of climbing and exploration. I’ve always been captivated by the way their gnarly limbs stretch and curl across our coastal hills, each tree full of character and quiet resilience. Whenever I see these oaks, I’m instantly carried back home. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/156467c7-2aa8-42f0-b9f3-6df2e7e46961/Summer.jpg Landscapes California live Oak Tree, Summer, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5a7c835f-3a8b-4c53-9a8c-c50af4f1ef42/Fall.jpg Landscapes California live Oak Tree, Fall, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/47af8dc6-8db1-4c61-8a19-6c384c337c4a/LSView.jpg Landscapes Laguna Seca View, Monterey CA,16x20 1991. Oil on Canvas. I painted this while on location near Laguna Seca Raceway on Highway 68 near Seaside, California. It was warm and a little hazy that day. I was enjoying the weather, but I finished the painting in the studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/37adb475-ce7e-467f-aae2-5dca3df7e7f6/RBHWY1.jpg Landscapes Red Barn Hwy 1, Big Sur CA,16x20 1991. Oil on Canvas. This was painted while on the side of Highway 1 down south of Carmel, California. This is now a state park named Goleta State Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/849aeafd-3b2d-4f4f-a0be-ec01a370513a/CLand1.jpg Landscapes California Landscape #1, 11x14 ~1994. Oil on Canvas. Driving back to San Francisco from Monterey a little south of San Jose the clouds and landscape were inspiring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/baaa673e-4226-474c-9785-be659f4d5ab7/CLand2.jpg Landscapes California Landscape #2, 11x14 ~1994. Oil on Canvas. Driving down to Monterey from San Francisco in the spring is a visual feast of green rolling hills. This view is a creation of those memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7cc88556-f90f-4855-878f-a836ae7dc4c0/COaks.jpg Landscapes Carmel Oaks, Carmel CA, 16x20 1991. Oil on Canvas. This was painted down Carmel Valley Road in Carmel Valley, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/da1da4f9-526e-4236-b32f-456ecfc560f9/SCPField.jpg Landscapes Soledad Chile Pepper Field, Soledad CA, 16x20 1991. Oil on Canvas. While driving around the Salinas and Carmel Valley I ventured a bit farther south to Soledad and came across this Chili Pepper field. The colors were amazing, and the warm summer wind was seductive. I love this painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f098cb41-d982-4859-9504-ceab808dd134/SoleField.jpg Landscapes Soledad Field, 11x14 2002. Oil on Paper. I conjured up this painting from a memory of the Soledad Chili Pepper field painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/19c0f348-5f71-45c3-b5e6-58ed8a3ad825/JennerCows.jpg Landscapes Cows, Jenner CA, 10x10 ~2004. Oil on Canvas. Staying up at Jenner one weekend, driving around I came across these cows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b77e3598-5aa4-4fba-9e9b-fd9f33fb85bb/Field.jpg Landscapes Field, 11x14 2002. Oil on Paper. From a memory I had, I conjured up this painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/2d24cd50-dd0e-4ad6-941c-1c19b43ceaf0/PVLale.jpg Landscapes Pauls Valley lake, OK, 11x14 2002. Oil on Paper. This painting is done from the memory of my time living on my step-fathers 23 acres out in the country of a small town in Southern Oklahoma. My brother and I would shoot snakes and try to capture turtles from this pond where the horses would come to drink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/41df0e6a-4b90-42dc-9210-ea42bb76807f/SRiver.jpg Landscapes Salinas River, 11x14 2002. Oil on Paper. Driving down highway 1, just past Moss Landing...look to the right when crossing the Salinas River. I have taken artistic liberty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/8792f281-eb82-4ad8-bbfa-ad2ade9fd49e/RedCField.jpg Landscapes Red Clay Field, West Oklahoma, 8x10 2000. Oil on Canvas. This image is from a trip with my mother to visit my brother in Southern OK, To me the red clay is a trademark of Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a5a8adba-48ba-422f-9d56-2df6612fe472/SorgField.jpg Landscapes Sorghum Field, West Texas,18x24 2000. Oil on Canvas. While driving through the southwest with my mother, we came across this field which neither one of us Californians knew what it was. Corn, we thought at first, but then later after a it of research we found out it was Sorghum. The colors were stunning as this was near sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ddf99dd0-3f1c-48df-8b07-dfe8f2985a64/LCross.jpg Landscapes Largest Cross In the Western Hemisphere, Groom Texas, 12x16 2000. Oil on Canvas. While driving through the southwest with my mother, we came across this huge cross. Research later revealed that this was the largest cross in the western hemisphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5c921421-0328-4b02-81d8-67a99a6b90b9/JT.jpg Landscapes J.T at sunset, 11x14 2021. Oil on board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3149e2be-1d57-46c7-b78e-0cffbbc530a1/KnotTree.jpg Landscapes The Knaughty Tree, 33x33 2009. Oil on Canvas. For Vince. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7b721787-f228-42fe-b164-9a9e32a09727/HollyH.jpg Landscapes Hollyhocks, 36x24 2020. Oil on canvas. My first pandemic painting. I had painted my Condo a Fez red and planted Hollyhocks against it that were quite red. I found the red on red very striking with the green leaves so decided to try and capture the beauty of what I saw and gift the painting to Mustafa who owns the Café across the street. He enjoyed seeing the Fez red color of my condo from his cafe. As I started the painting, the COVID pandemic hit, and the painting provided a stress reliving outlet during the initial lockdown. As the painting evolved, the flowers and leaves took on new shapes and colors, and the background gained a playful energetic texture – I let it go wherever it was going and ended up with what I consider a very enjoyable and somewhat meditative decorative piece. I can sit and just let my eyes roam around this painting from afar or step closer and get swept up by the sweet details. The painting is now hanging at Mustafa’s café - Café du Soleil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/e124ee72-e6c8-471c-9e89-d38d361b1918/WhiteSandsY.jpg Landscapes White Sands Yucca, 8x10 2020. Oil on Board. For my mothers cousin Luann in Alamogordo NM. A thank you gift for making a 2019 October trip to the area with my sister and mother, very special. This image is from White Sands, where my mother, sister and I went for a day visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0cb4c5e5-a829-46a7-822b-1681dd5b2723/BobsLS.jpg Landscapes Bobs Landscape, 47x17 2014. Oil on Canvas. An abstract landscape as a gift for my friend Bob. https://www.davidfink.com/variety daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/79debd56-080b-4ef2-9749-a19180b87270/PreGlazingOfColorCropped.jpg Variety The Blue 1, 8x10, Oil on canvas board. (A series of six.) (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/190ec5f7-18af-46a8-bc9e-6bc5d9f86a1d/Final.jpg Variety David 11x14 2026. Oil on canvas (Oil Glazing after B&W Tonal base) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ab63c25d-9adb-43df-b363-c1896a2151ed/Week-Four-Squash.jpg Variety Squash 11x14 2025. Oil on canvas board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/535ed852-df6a-4728-b84c-76812069e30e/MM_final_forWeb.jpg Variety S & M - Oil on Canvas, 14" x 20" 2024. Oil on canvas. In celebration of their new home in downtown San Francisco, I created a painting for my dear friends, Serge and Michael. During a memorable dinner at my place, I took candid photos of them, intending to surprise them with a personalized housewarming gift – this painting. The composition weaves together various imagery and symbolic elements to tell their unique story. In the painting, a framed image of their new home hangs on a wall adorned with stripes. This framed piece could also be interpreted as a window offering a view to their abode. The wall's stripes symbolize the skin colors of both Serge and Michael, while the dark vertical bars also serve as a poignant reminder of the historical oppression and potential imprisonment faced by mixed-race and gay couples. Serge, who engages the viewer in the here and now with his direct gaze, hails from Haiti. To honor his heritage, I included an element from the Haitian flag on the pillow to his left. He’s depicted wearing a yellow hood/mask on his sweatshirt—an accessory he dons at certain events—highlighting his charismatic nature, playfulness, and a sense of mystery. Michael, embracing Serge and looking thoughtfully towards their future, is of Italian descent. The pillow to his right features the colors of the Italian flag. To reflect his intellectual demeanor, seriousness, strength, confidence, and occasional playfulness, I portrayed Michael with his glasses, a charismatically masculine hairy chest, and wearing a V-neck with a gold chain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c6096c2d-c17c-43a9-b8ce-373f9f7439ce/finished-painting_Cropped_small.jpg Variety Bellatrix, 9x12 Acrylic on board. 2024 (For Bruce and Andy). During a visit with friends Bruce and Andy, they shared images of their picnic boat, Bellatrix, in Bar Harbor, Maine. I was captivated by the boat’s simple yet refined elegance and its beautiful finishes. The image lingered with me for months, inspiring me to create a painting as a gift. I aimed to make the painting playfully lyrical, capturing the boat’s beauty and purpose through a variety of styles, and as a memento of the memories Bruce and Andy had with Bellatrix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3fca1608-c911-4db1-80af-03ae5af2fc46/Bobbin_forWeb.jpg Variety The strings that bind a friendship: Bobbins 6x12 Acrylic on board, 2024. David, a neighbor and friend, is an avid collector of handmade Middle Eastern rugs. His apartment floor is adorned with beautiful rugs of various sizes and designs. A few years ago, he decided to learn how to weave rugs and built his own small weaving loom. He began gathering plant materials to create natural dyes, which he used to hand-dye the yarn. David and I often have breakfast together to discuss our creative endeavors, and we frequently help each other out as friends and neighbors do. One morning, while visiting him, I noticed a colorful bundle of yarn and asked about it. He explained that it was for one of his projects—making me a bookmark. I was captivated by the beauty of the bundle and was inspired to do a painting of the bobbins for David. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7e4230fc-d848-4f7d-942f-c3dad284e487/MoneyTree_Web.jpg Variety Money Tree with 6 stalks (for Hot Zushi), 28x31 2023. Acrylic on Canvas. I live in a great neighborhood - The Lower Haight. There are a number of businesses within blocks of my home, and just a block away is one I frequent regularly named Hot Zushi (a Sushi restaurant). The prices are good, the quality is excellent, and the owners David and Connie are friendly and get to know their regulars - of which they have many. When the COVID pandemic hit, their business was impacted, as were so many; take-out was the norm, and I ordered regularly as did others. Their business survived. Over the years their friendliness and kindness has had such a positive impact during these trying times. One night over a bottle or two of Sake, we discussed how the placement of plants in the space, their lucky bamboo plant and images of outdoor greenery on the walls all supported good feng shui. I asked if they would be interested in a money-tree painting as a gift (yes please) and over time we discussed what elements they would like to see in the painting. The finished painting includes 6 stalks (David says six stalks represents good luck and prosperity), and lots of greenery. This was another fun painting to do, I enjoyed putting together all the interlocking shapes and layers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/354b5a9b-f49e-4215-8e3d-fdbe12a4a08d/P1010018.JPG Variety Cupcake - Chocolate and Orange, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. Wayne Thiebaud passed away in Dec. 2021 and I have always loved his work, so I decided to do 4 paintings of desserts and call it For Wayne, and when my mother passed away in Oct. 2022, since she loved ice cream in cones and particularly Neapolitan, I added Moms Favorite. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a973db6d-68f6-4329-bbab-b0ebcf092146/P1010019.JPG Variety Cupcake - Peppermint, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/95ebdcfb-c990-4ed2-91ff-e1ebe6919f6f/P1010020.JPG Variety Cupcake - Banana Cream, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9a5e22e-7d58-4035-a539-1c2466641f1a/P1010021.JPG Variety Cupcake - Key Lime, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9a53fcb-b8db-458b-bacc-ab71b08c5c9d/P1010022.JPG Variety Ice Cream Cone - Moms Favorite - Neapolitan, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/e93e54ef-068a-4295-985e-c8243b76e9a6/WWFP.jpg Variety Webster and Waller Streets, San Francisco CA, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. This was the first hydrant I painted, it was outside the window of my painting studio and down on the street one level. I had seen a lot of things occur around that hydrant over the years I lived in that apartment. Soon after I finished the painting, the top of the real hydrant was painted white. A year or so before I did the fire hydrant series, David, Laura Williams husband gave me a photograph of a fire hydrant he took and for years the simplicity of the image and the personality of that solitary hydrant brought me to begin looking at them on the street more frequently. Each hydrant, stationary for years, subject to abuse in one way or another by both man and dog. I began to see each as a little figure. I noticed the variety of shapes and colors and asked friends to send me images of hydrants from where they lived and traveled. When I first started the series, a good friend, Russell, asked why I was going to paint fire hydrants. In my mind’s eye I could see the finished paintings all in a row on some long white wall, my only response was that I felt compelled to. (And they did look great on one wall). I found along the way, each hydrant, the different colors, the different size arms all had meaning to Firemen. The result was stunning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f3afcb5a-58c7-45f4-9321-67274d1130a5/CastroFP.jpg Variety Castro and Market Streets, San Francisco CA, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. This hydrant is at the busy intersection of Castro and Market. I had to do one from this neighborhood, which was at the time the center of nightlife for me and my friends where we would often meet on a Friday night. This one is full of symbolism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/45aaed52-15d8-40d5-b4a5-72ba1cf35dda/CarmelFP.jpg Variety Carmel-By-The-Sea, Carmel CA, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. While visiting my mother in Seaside, I went driving around looking for hydrants and came across this one right along the beach in Carmel. It was so different than any I had seen, the salty air had taken its toll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6e4ccd2a-9fd0-45b7-bb2f-04a401b256ea/GreenwichFP.jpg Variety Greenwich Street NYC, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. This hydrant is from a photo my friend Dan sent to me from a trip he made to NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ee91cb42-f13f-44c4-8e89-2362dd51b44a/MissionFP.jpg Variety Mission and 14th Street San Francisco CA, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. Out walking around the city as I often do, I came across this one in the Mission neighborhood. I had seen many similar in style, but this one had a green top, and seemed to be a favorite with the dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/35e0b76b-0bf1-4a28-a899-70eb97f1333c/SacramentoFP.jpg Variety Sacramento, Sacramento CA, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. One of my best friends, Will, sent me this image of a hydrant in Sacramento where he was living. The top of the hydrant seems reminiscent of a Fireman’s hat and the dry grassy field in the background evoked a sense of solitude and peacefulness. A peacefulness that would be short lived, as the field would soon become a housing development. At this point in painting the series, the chains began to take on symbolism for me, this one: marriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/2b35c2e3-a94a-4b5f-b1c7-7175c2f74c63/WinterFP.jpg Variety Winter, South Shore Lake Tahoe CA, 36x36 1998. Oil on Canvas. Still on my quest to find seven distinct looking hydrants, up snowboarding in Tahoe one weekend, I saw this stunning red hydrant shimmering against the white of the snow. I had found my seventh hydrant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5d95b178-a809-4cf2-a6bc-6ee2511773e8/PetersFP.jpg Variety Peter's Fire Hydrant,10x10 2012. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9953321d-e39b-4982-8927-507bb3434c64/RichardsFP.jpg Variety Richard's Fire Hydrant, 10x10 2012. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/cba62522-d5bd-4bf1-83d1-b939d3b8b689/RufusFP.jpg Variety Rufus's Fireplug, 30x36 ~1998. Oil on Canvas. My good friends Dan and Jeff commissioned me to do a fireplug for their dog Rufus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/34f4e4d0-4bc6-4d04-abf5-b351527b320c/GBowl.jpg Variety Green bowl, 12x12 2000. Oil on Canvas. My school mate Kim mentioned that doing multiples helped get into the subtleties of an item. So, after I completed the fans, I went on to do bowls, simple shapes but to refine them and have fun with the color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/426a2982-0243-4632-bf08-9dc3d02783b4/OBowl.jpg Variety Orange bowl, 12x12 2000. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/44aa0399-7c1c-4040-8586-f65b9a7d399f/BBowl.jpg Variety Blue bowl, 12x12 2000. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/41489229-3dc9-4107-8802-b877e8ed30ed/YBowl.jpg Variety Yellow bowl, 12x12 2000. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5468ba30-bc25-4c59-afc3-ac0e6adf76c3/OFan.jpg Variety Orange Fan, 12x12 1999. Oil on Canvas. My friend Keith gave me this old fan and like my previous painting of the school chair called, Van Goughs chair, I went whimsical with my painting on this and the other fan paintings. This fan series is beautiful to see together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/117312a1-7765-4f05-8f45-124f2a7e7b47/GFan.jpg Variety Green Fan, 12x12 1999. Oil on Canvas. Another in the series of 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5b31575e-bd92-4d65-8b7b-58b12413ef84/PFan.jpg Variety Pink Fan, 12x12 1999. Oil on Canvas. The last in the series of 4 fan paintings, I was thinking of calling this one Chilling in the Castro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/102192d0-406b-43f3-8b6f-6814ff60175e/Yfan.jpg Variety Yellow Fan, 12x12 1999. Oil on Canvas. Another in the fan series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/4a188590-9422-406a-957c-ee57d709ec05/BluePhone.jpg Variety Blue Telephone, 13x10 2011. Oil on Canvas. After painting the group. I separated the phones into individual paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/90e583ca-39d9-4166-a0df-a4237d0fa893/OrangePhone.jpg Variety Orange Telephone, 13x10 2011. Oil on Canvas. After painting the group. I separated the phones into individual paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/264b566b-1367-4b55-993a-ee0ecc2f7dd2/YPhone.jpg Variety Yellow Telephone, 13x10 2011. Oil on Canvas. After painting the group. I separated the phones into individual paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b80884f5-0f4f-4609-b49c-baaf57dd38a4/RedPhone.jpg Variety Red Telephone, 13x10 2011. Oil on Canvas. After painting the group. I separated the phones into individual paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0c338395-4acf-4896-8a6a-60d8bcad514a/BlueBoat.jpg Variety Blue Boat, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3fdf2160-fff3-4243-9a5e-5621468375f9/GreenBoat.jpg Variety Green Boat, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/659d511b-609f-4f26-a546-ca50781f43c8/OrangeBoat.jpg Variety Orange Boat, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7b050a73-689b-45e3-9866-b907a4309674/GreenTruck.jpg Variety Green Truck, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6d857c39-c501-4188-95db-3106c647f8ca/OrangeTruck.jpg Variety Orange Truck, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0e9760df-c72b-4ef3-a8df-bdaee0ff792b/PinkTruck.jpg Variety Pink Truck, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6003d8eb-92dd-435a-a493-dc7d8b557ea2/BluePlane.jpg Variety Blue Plane, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0b30184e-94b8-45a9-850e-2bff84f2eabd/OrangePlane.jpg Variety Orange Plane, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7c245038-9711-4e4d-be2e-99e00234db3c/PinkPlane.jpg Variety Pink Plane, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/508ef928-79bf-4daf-a63a-f370fcb3b534/ZonalC.jpg Variety ZONAL CHAIR, 36x43 1999. Oil on Canvas. For Russell at Zonal Home Interiors in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/1471cd96-569a-4831-ae2b-bb0c51362bd6/GreenC.jpg Variety Green Chair, 36x48 1996. Oil on Canvas. This chair was part of a series of chair paintings. This chair was at my friend Russell’s store Zonal Home Interiors in Hayes Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/afe7c72f-82fe-4693-9177-60fdd0a8a030/GChair2.jpg Variety Green Chair #2, 36x48 1997. Oil on Canvas. This chair was part of a series of chair paintings. This chair was at my friend Russell’s store Zonal Home Interiors in Hayes Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/00e84416-4f6c-42c7-b594-69b9d156be23/GChair3.jpg Variety Green Chair #3, 11x14 1996. Oil on Canvas. This chair was part of a series of chair paintings. This chair was at my friend Russell’s store Zonal Home Interiors in Hayes Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/8a5db748-8f6d-4235-98c4-a50f03c6f0b6/RedChair.jpg Variety Red Chair, 11x14 1996. Oil on Canvas. Another in the series of the chair paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/aa3e9829-dc7e-4a81-8ccc-0e3f9229b410/RedChair2.jpg Variety Red Chair #2, 40x42 1998. Oil on Canvas. This chair was part of a series of chair paintings. This chair was at my friend Russell’s store Zonal Home Interiors in Hayes Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ab45ac91-871d-4e94-9696-e428c72f4f52/VGChair.jpg Variety Van Goughs Chair, 20x30 ~1996. Oil on Canvas. I found this old school chair at a garage sale across the street from where I lived and was drawn to paint it in a whimsical style. What emerged was something akin to a painterly Van Gough painting. I really enjoyed painting this painting. My Doctor at the time, Dr. Michael P. now owns this painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0f00720e-b12b-4ab2-b323-2838757dfdda/TAKChair.jpg Variety Todd and Kevin's chair, 40x44 1998. Oil on Canvas. This chair was part of a series of chair paintings. This chair was painted for friends Todd and Kevin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a4bc464b-d634-4b19-a1bc-2fa965d8f87d/Rpump.jpg Variety Red Pump, 14x16 2000. Oil on Canvas. I really enjoyed painting the Dry Creek Gas Station painting and wanted to do some close ups of the Gas pumps. This is one of the three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/61d5fc7e-1436-440f-98ea-7e6c1f4b17c0/BPump.jpg Variety Blue Pump, 14x16 2000. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/810cfc9b-1539-4e26-9783-6aded395a80f/WPump.jpg Variety White Pump, 14x16 2000. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/cccd2cd5-7ee4-4391-b409-1613f6b944e8/Bunky.jpg Variety Bunky, 10x10 2018. Oil on Board. Friends Kurt and Roland commissioned a painting of Bunky for our mutual friend Bob. I had a great time with this painting. Bunky passed away in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ce6135db-56c8-483e-8efd-f0c8ce238571/Alex.jpg Variety Alex the Cat, 16x16 2010. Oil on Canvas. For Jay and Alberto. The lovely Alex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f4f18eda-ff73-444b-8b3c-d3cd049c67f3/Sidney.jpg Variety Sidney, 12x12 2016. Oil on Canvas. A collector of my artwork asked me to do a painting of her Sidney. It took me quite some time to move forward with the painting, but after meeting Sidney, taking some pictures and seeing pictures of his favorite place Fort Funston I was on the canvas having a good time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/00261bd8-5f14-49b3-9441-b6668ba85ba3/Books.jpg Variety Books, 16x20 2011. Oil on Canvas. Was purchased for the Two Sisters Bar and Books in Hayes Valley San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6bc3dd25-b3fc-4c70-aa11-93dd7e28be53/TaylorsK.jpg Variety Taylors Kitchen Sacramento CA, 12x18 2015. Oil on Canvas. For my friend Will. On a visit to Sacramento, stopping at Taylors Kitchen I was inspired to undertake this painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/498d8359-1469-4a22-9779-f9ff4bbce135/ChooChoo.jpg Variety The choo-choo train, 16x20 2012. Acrylic on Canvas. For Jana, Paul and their son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/723bb195-0228-4c8b-9947-a90b8b81e941/MMRoses.jpg Variety Statue of Mary M with roses, 44x44 ~2013. Oil on Canvas. My friend Kurt took a beautiful emotion filled B&W picture of the statue in front of the Mission San Francisco which inspired me to take that image and make a painting of it. The painting now hangs in Kurt’s home. It is truly a lovely contemplative painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6e65a6dc-30a7-4a83-aaa0-6dd537fb89c1/CirclesALines.jpg Variety Circles and Lines, 12x12 2015 Oil on Canvas. For Ann and Dana, a lovely couple who have honored me by requesting a piece of my artwork for their Berkeley home. The foundational imagery used for inspiration was borrowed from another piece by Kim Frohsin – with her approval. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a69f8910-03b0-49b7-9530-54fc950279e3/Don.jpg Variety Sweet Dreams, 11x14, 2014. Acrylic on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/282b6ced-5b36-488c-a818-59eecb3be24c/BlueBoyCropped.jpg Variety “BlueBoy” is a 20 x 24 inch acrylic self‑portrait on canvas board, originally created for my 1987 Graduation Show at the Academy of Art University. I recently pulled it out of storage while revisiting figure painting, and seeing it again feels like opening a time capsule. The piece captures not only my younger self, but also the visual language I was developing at that moment—my early experiments with color, form, and identity. Returning to it now offers a chance to reflect on how my approach to the figure has evolved, and how much of that early curiosity still threads through my work today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/41d69bd9-c7b0-4213-8a84-84f801aab197/cropped_small.jpg Variety Lovers, 6x12 Acrylic on board. 2024 (For Jeff and Josue). During a visit to my friend Jeff, whom I hadn’t seen in many years, I had the pleasure of meeting him and his husband in Orlando, FL. Their kindness and evident love for each other inspired me to create a thank-you painting. The painting features two Barn Swallow birds, which migrate south through Orlando during the summer, and a cherry blossom branch, symbolizing love and beauty in some cultures and the importance of enjoying life. https://www.davidfink.com/abstract daily 0.75 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b637c404-e084-4c32-8499-4f86ea51eea2/FinishedPainting.jpg Abstract Time Study (balancing structure and motion) 11x14, 2025. Oil on board, While working on my Central California Ice Plant series, an abstract vision unexpectedly emerged in my mind’s eye — perhaps sparked by a recent discussion with a friend about Kandinsky’s artwork. The image took shape as large squares of black and white, their stark contrast harmonized by the presence of smaller squares in primary colors: blue and yellow. A single red circle added a bold focal point. My goal was to create a simple yet well-balanced composition, and as I adjusted the placement of elements to achieve perfect visual equilibrium, the arrangement began to evoke the rhythmic swing of a clock’s pendulum and the steady motion of its arm. I gave this painting to my friend Mark Knapp as a gift for his new home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d596d786-fc4c-47a3-84fd-493425a24239/scc1.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #1, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz. These color composition paintings are the outcome of reflecting on my Fire Hydrant paintings and how I enjoyed abstracting the landscape behind them. I decided to do a series of abstracted landscapes of the area I grew up (Monterey/Salinas Valley). I call these my Color Field series. I really had fun with these - playing with the color and the visual vibration created between the colors I selected. These paintings were a joy to create. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c97b898d-d602-4583-b046-3465011900c0/scc2.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #2, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: California hills in summer with sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/8d93427c-3a9a-4fd0-b570-494230584dd6/scc3.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #3, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: California lettuce field looking towards the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/703f8c55-3bad-49af-ae96-f4dc34c4250b/scc4.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #4, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz (Showing more sky then Color Composition #1.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/3f6cf851-e852-4ac8-8d80-55663f0253ec/scc5.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #5, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Orange on Orange, for George and his past love of this color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d98ee5e0-9558-4a63-8592-35b3452f8368/scc6.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #6, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz, with bright blue sky. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9410288-5740-4f98-ba73-7b35066d6b82/scc7.JPG Abstract Sq. Color Composition #7, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Sunset looking over a chili pepper field towards the ocean. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b863b5af-7b7b-46f1-8b0d-38b1170da7fc/scc9.JPG Abstract Sq. Color Composition #9, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Midday sun on a chili pepper field. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/81bb6dbc-49a8-49a0-aae9-6490e656afd4/scc10.JPG Abstract Sq. Color Composition #10, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Afternoon sun on a field of wild mustard. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f9230baf-52f7-4d6c-826a-1c6d8d715025/scc11.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #11, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Chili pepper field and brown hills. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/8e9dc6ff-9b88-491c-af5a-ffcaf4a4c89b/scc12.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #12, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Lettuce field and green hills https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/1ae5135d-844f-4e30-9879-8d3783da614f/scc13.JPG Abstract Sq. Color Composition #13, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Artichoke field against green hillside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a9f6ad00-ae6e-4a30-a0d1-cf763ad57a60/scc14New.JPG Abstract Sq. Color Composition #14, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Freshly tilled field at dusk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ff028a61-d199-46fc-b673-9efc2cbbae45/scc15.jpg Abstract Sq. Color Composition #15, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Fog on Monterey Bay looking towards Seaside. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6ccf8f33-609d-4787-bd81-61c3156b3510/faultline.jpg Abstract Faultline - Color Field Painting, 22.5x22.5 2009. Oil on Paper. For Jim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d1179dfc-c5a1-4673-8835-ebf9fd37d4f3/cc1.jpg Abstract Color Composition #1, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Thoughts of a chili pepper field in summer. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/16dfc8e3-3eea-4d1c-8caf-1355c1c94ceb/cc2.jpg Abstract Color Composition #2, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Thoughts of a central valley field freshly tilled in the summer. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/72d96cbd-1dd0-48ef-b3a3-cb29d780ced0/cc3.jpg Abstract Color Composition #3, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking over the California hills in summer, out towards the Pacific Ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/4c5c693c-9c2c-442d-887f-811577d63d08/cc4.jpg Abstract Color Composition #4, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking over the California hills in spring, out towards the Pacific Ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9c24d3bf-0718-4b8f-95c4-706a93643375/dtellme.jpg Abstract Don't Tell Me How to Paint, 8x8 2021. Oil on Board. I have been playing around with my painting style and I was starting to hear various comments about that. So I decided to have a little fun. The painting is basically an abstracted representation of me walking away from the, umm, commentaries (purple head) coming my way. (Available) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ac9f1d1f-0db7-40c9-a571-46b6eb37dc0b/thisisA.jpg Abstract This is America, 20x20 2022. Oil on Canvas. I felt compelled to do a painting to reflect the polarization, racial tension, and violence I was and am seeing and hearing about in America. I ruminated for a while on how to represent what I felt and started a new piece of work, but adjusted where I was going with it over time. This painting evolved into what it is now. There is a lot of symbolism in this painting; the background is various skin tones, the circle is an open wound, the U.S is a piece of meat with embers and a peace sign overlaying it all. The dramatic black is obviously a target with words pulled in. To determine the words to include, I asked several friends for the first 3 words that come to mind when they think of America, and from those I selected a subset. https://www.davidfink.com/wip daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/79debd56-080b-4ef2-9749-a19180b87270/PreGlazingOfColorCropped.jpg In Progress The Blue 1 8x10, Oil on canvas board. (A series of six.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/190ec5f7-18af-46a8-bc9e-6bc5d9f86a1d/Final.jpg In Progress David 11x14 2026. Oil on canvas (Oil Glazing after B&W Tonal base) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a3aa5bbd-70ae-4fd9-85a7-6953dfa06392/artistview_Final.jpg In Progress The Artists view. 11x16 2026. Oil on canvas board. https://www.davidfink.com/availablework daily 0.75 2023-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/7b422bef-6d71-467d-82de-da50f92b0e0a/windswept_web.jpg Available Work Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Windswept - Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025 Growing up in the Monterey Bay area, I was captivated by the brilliant transformation of coastal ice plants in the summertime — its vivid hues igniting the landscape with bursts of color. In my Central California Ice Plant series, I sought to preserve that fleeting beauty, capturing the striking interplay between the jewel-toned ice plant, the golden sand dunes, and the deep, shifting blues of Monterey Bay. Beyond the palette, this series is a tribute to a place that has shaped me, reflecting not just the visual splendor of the coastline but the deep personal connection I hold to it. There are four paintings in this series: Windswept, Wanderer, Vista, and Transitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9ff5bd66-e7b3-40f3-90f6-3cd440d708bd/Wanderer_web.jpg Available Work Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Wanderer - Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d686f52f-65ca-4a05-809e-711e46775b0c/vista_web.jpg Available Work Central California Ice Plants (Marina State Beach CA) Vista - Oil on board, 12 x 16, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/354b5a9b-f49e-4215-8e3d-fdbe12a4a08d/P1010018.JPG Available Work Chocolate and Orange, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. Wayne Thiebaud passed away in Dec. 2021 and I have always loved his work, so I decided to do 4 paintings of cupcakes. I made clay models and painted them, which I then lighted to help capture the shadow structure and color. This is one of the four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a973db6d-68f6-4329-bbab-b0ebcf092146/P1010019.JPG Available Work Peppermint, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/95ebdcfb-c990-4ed2-91ff-e1ebe6919f6f/P1010020.JPG Available Work Banana Cream, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9a5e22e-7d58-4035-a539-1c2466641f1a/P1010021.JPG Available Work Key Lime, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9a53fcb-b8db-458b-bacc-ab71b08c5c9d/P1010022.JPG Available Work Moms Favorite - Neapolitan, 10x10 2023. Oil on Board. My mother loved ice cream in cones and particularly Neapolitan. The paneling is a representation of the home we grew up in with wood paneling and the doily is a representation of the many doilies my mother would have around the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/628fa38f-4156-430c-85b6-2aa6d6e33392/Lettucefield_night_winter.jpg Available Work Winter at night, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. I decided to do another California landscape series, a few years had passed since Don lost his battle with ALS and I wanted to make a series that was a bit brighter and uplifting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/bda03e36-cc54-4d25-bb77-8932b388aee3/LettuceField_Spring.jpg Available Work Spring, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/cc15eb9c-5a37-4594-b1ba-cf52f70c7667/lettucefield_summer.jpg Available Work Fall, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/a179536f-f881-498a-baef-4d965839c30a/lettucefield_fall.jpg Available Work Winter, 26x18 2017. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5245a5f5-1bc5-4694-82b3-8ce4a9e4c45b/winter.jpg Available Work Oak Tree, Winter at night, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. After doing the 2017 California landscape series, I felt I had not done the Oak trees justice, and I love the shapes of these trees, so I did another series with the focus being the trees. These are some of my favorites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f5400209-19c5-47ee-82e9-10b74f72f170/Spring.jpg Available Work Oak Tree, Spring, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/5a7c835f-3a8b-4c53-9a8c-c50af4f1ef42/Fall.jpg Available Work Oak Tree, Summer, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/156467c7-2aa8-42f0-b9f3-6df2e7e46961/Summer.jpg Available Work Oak Tree, Winter, 20x16 2019. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d98ee5e0-9558-4a63-8592-35b3452f8368/scc6.jpg Available Work Sq. Color Composition #6, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz, with bright blue sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/c9410288-5740-4f98-ba73-7b35066d6b82/scc7.JPG Available Work Sq. Color Composition #7, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Sunset looking over a chili pepper field towards the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/b863b5af-7b7b-46f1-8b0d-38b1170da7fc/scc9.JPG Available Work Sq. Color Composition #9, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Midday sun on a chili pepper field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/81bb6dbc-49a8-49a0-aae9-6490e656afd4/scc10.JPG Available Work Sq. Color Composition #10, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Afternoon sun on a field of wild mustard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/f9230baf-52f7-4d6c-826a-1c6d8d715025/scc11.jpg Available Work Sq. Color Composition #11, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Chili pepper field and brown hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/ff028a61-d199-46fc-b673-9efc2cbbae45/scc15.jpg Available Work Sq. Color Composition #15, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Fog on Monterey Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/d1179dfc-c5a1-4673-8835-ebf9fd37d4f3/cc1.jpg Available Work Color Composition #1, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. I started a new job and I did not have the time to work on more complex paintings but wanted to still be working with the paint. I reflected on my Fire Hydrant paintings and how I enjoyed abstracting out the landscape behind them and decided to do a series of abstracted landscapes which I call the Color Field series. I really had fun with these and played a lot with the color and the visual vibration created between the colors I selected. These paintings were a joy to create and resonated with many. The smaller square paintings are stunning (if I do say so myself) when matted and framed. This composition: Thoughts of a chili pepper field in summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/16dfc8e3-3eea-4d1c-8caf-1355c1c94ceb/cc2.jpg Available Work Color Composition #2, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Thoughts of a central valley field freshly tilled in the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/6d857c39-c501-4188-95db-3106c647f8ca/OrangeTruck.jpg Available Work Orange Truck, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0e9760df-c72b-4ef3-a8df-bdaee0ff792b/PinkTruck.jpg Available Work Pink Truck, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/0b30184e-94b8-45a9-850e-2bff84f2eabd/OrangePlane.jpg Available Work Orange Plane, Reflections of Youth, 22x22 2008. Acrylic on Canvas. Toy Paintings for Zonal Home Interiors, S.F. CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9ab5fae2-6136-4651-a846-8d89b508dc64/SFishHouse.jpg Available Work Starfish House Carmel CA, 36x36 2004. Oil on Canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643b73d127b2c44848121d50/9c24d3bf-0718-4b8f-95c4-706a93643375/dtellme.jpg Available Work Don't Tell Me How to Paint, 8x8 2021. Oil on Board. I have been playing around with my painting style and I was starting to hear various comments about that. So I decided to have a little fun. The painting is basically an abstracted representation of me walking away from the, umm, commentaries (purple head) coming my way. https://www.davidfink.com/newsletter daily 0.75 2023-07-16