A 40+ year Painting Odyssey Across Maui,
Creating in a Variety of Very Unique Spaces
It’s been a gradual migration all over the island, beginning in Lahaina in 1979 in the back room of a fun boutique called Apparels of Pauline; at 674 Front St., Patrick Gilmore presided over the many creative types making art to wear at that time.
Please see a Honolulu Magazine article from April 1982.
My next studio had previously been an architect’s two-room office on Lahainaluna Road. It was across from Moki’s Bar and right next door to the oldest tattoo parlor currently in Lahaina: Skin Deep. Learning to sleep and work in the center of a bustling little town was an art in it's self ;-). I then had a shop and painted in the little red house at the back of the Lahaina Market Place, where someone is still selling ukulele and other touristic items to this day. The many historic rooms and fabulous Front St. balcony ocean side of the Kishi Building, (next door to the infamous Blue Max) offered a secluded (if not quiet at night) creative space. What was made there sold in our shop, Ibiza Maui, on Lahainaluna Road, next door to the original Girard's. Cue visions of French Christmas duck and many other culinary explorations.
The last studio in Lahaina was in the The Shack…the iconic wooden house built on piers, out over the shore next to Library Park. It had been a gallery for well known artist Stephen Sands. This was really the ultimate work-live space. The ocean washed under the house with a constant marine serenade and the sunsets were non-endingly amazing. There was space to paint in The Shack and to dye clothes on the deck or the shore. You could just launch yourself into sea from the rocks under the house and have a swim. A glorious five years was spent there.
In 1987 it was time for change from all that blue - the water and the sky, the town vibes. It was exchanged for a decade and a half living and working in the green jungles of Ke’anae and Nahiku. From 2002 and beyond, it’s been back to somewhat urban Maui; via a large, shaded front porch in Haiku, and then a hillside house in very special Ulupalakua. A light filled studio-store in Makawao followed for two years; and now I am creating in Kula, in a roomy historic multi-dimensional protea packing shed - with quite a view. Please contact us for a studio visit.
Creating in a Variety of Very Unique Spaces
It’s been a gradual migration all over the island, beginning in Lahaina in 1979 in the back room of a fun boutique called Apparels of Pauline; at 674 Front St., Patrick Gilmore presided over the many creative types making art to wear at that time.
Please see a Honolulu Magazine article from April 1982.
My next studio had previously been an architect’s two-room office on Lahainaluna Road. It was across from Moki’s Bar and right next door to the oldest tattoo parlor currently in Lahaina: Skin Deep. Learning to sleep and work in the center of a bustling little town was an art in it's self ;-). I then had a shop and painted in the little red house at the back of the Lahaina Market Place, where someone is still selling ukulele and other touristic items to this day. The many historic rooms and fabulous Front St. balcony ocean side of the Kishi Building, (next door to the infamous Blue Max) offered a secluded (if not quiet at night) creative space. What was made there sold in our shop, Ibiza Maui, on Lahainaluna Road, next door to the original Girard's. Cue visions of French Christmas duck and many other culinary explorations.
The last studio in Lahaina was in the The Shack…the iconic wooden house built on piers, out over the shore next to Library Park. It had been a gallery for well known artist Stephen Sands. This was really the ultimate work-live space. The ocean washed under the house with a constant marine serenade and the sunsets were non-endingly amazing. There was space to paint in The Shack and to dye clothes on the deck or the shore. You could just launch yourself into sea from the rocks under the house and have a swim. A glorious five years was spent there.
In 1987 it was time for change from all that blue - the water and the sky, the town vibes. It was exchanged for a decade and a half living and working in the green jungles of Ke’anae and Nahiku. From 2002 and beyond, it’s been back to somewhat urban Maui; via a large, shaded front porch in Haiku, and then a hillside house in very special Ulupalakua. A light filled studio-store in Makawao followed for two years; and now I am creating in Kula, in a roomy historic multi-dimensional protea packing shed - with quite a view. Please contact us for a studio visit.