The act of painting has carried him through life, arousing insight, energy and joy. His contribution to this year’s series, “Sails of the Bay”, uses acrylic paint and varnish to picture some of the vessels that took the San Francisco Bay by storm in the summer of 2013. His work has featured frequently in solo exhibitions across the country and around the world and holds places in the private collections of San Francisco’s Mexican Museum, the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas and Sprint’s World Headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.