Desert Garden Series 1981-Present

The Desert Garden Series alludes to the walled paradise gardens of the Islamic tradition and to the modest, early residential gardens of my Bay Area Modern mentors, Robert Royston and Garrett Eckbo.

“In desert lands, the oasis is typically viewed as a kind of paradise, a respite from the parched land and withering sun.”

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. (2001). Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (p. 103). New York: Abrams.

“The creation of a garden… becomes something halfway between the making of a painting and the making of a house.”

Royston, Robert. As quoted in: Pepper, Steven C. (1948). “Introduction to Garden Design.” Landscape Design (p. 5). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art.