Thank you very much to everyone who has shared their appreciation of my work. My love is the essence that pours through my paintings. Your expressed appreciation adds to this love, and gives additional depth and beauty to its expression.

To all the people who have acquired my work. I live a blessed life and you are a big part of this. I get to play with fabulous people like you and play with color most of my days and nights. It couldn’t get any better than this for me. And your financial support makes this kind of blessed life possible.

To my beloved wife and daughter, Johanna and Shanti, thank you. My heart has broken open time and time again in the presence of the love you have for me and the love I have for you. I never knew I could be so full of love and gratitude. You are my best friends, the heart of my heart. See their pictures click here.

To Chad DeFerrari and his team at CDF Media for the months of dedication and perseverance they gave to the completion of this website. Their unending commitment to doing a great job, and the quality of heart they put into everything they do is sincerely appreciated. I enthusiastically recommend to everyone who requires these kinds of services, to allow themselves the good fortune of working with you. http://www.cdfmedia.com

To Leela. You were there since the beginning and encouraged me to continue when I saw no way for my life as an artist to thrive. You are a gift to my world and to everyone’s world that now enjoys my paintings, because without your persistent and amazing support, they would not have been created.

Thank you, mom. If creativity with no end could be given one face surely it would be yours. I owe a life of gratitude to a truly fabulous mother, friend, teacher, player, supporter. Thank you so very much. Visit http://www.serenitybythesea.com.

Chidicash. You were one of the people who helped me recognize how much pleasure and joy I derived from painting. Loving pleasure and joy, your communicated perceptions did influence me in directing my life into a full time art career.

My beloved Grandmother Muriel Horner. For 99 years you lived and every moment of every day you poured your heart into the lives of everyone around you. You missed no one with your all encompassing love. “Love one another.” And “Do unto others what you would want done unto yourself.” were more than just words you spoke. They were words you lived. You are my first mentor for living a life focused on what is most important. I love you dearly and I thank you with all my heart.
Chris and Gay McCombs. If it is possible to have two friends more dear I have no idea. You are masters of life, love, laughter, passion and compassion and the time we spend together is always the richest of all possible riches.

Steven Longfellow Fiske. My whole life turned on the walk we took, when you asked “if you could do anything with your life, what would you do?” I saw that anything other than living a life committed to passionate art, love, windsurfing, skiing, and creativity would be a life lived for excuses and fear. That day I kissed excuses good bye, turned toward my hearts desire and never turned back.

Beloved Blu. You are the best friend any human being could ever dream of. Your caring, your wisdom, your laughter and joy, your power and clarity, your uncompromising, blunt, and sometimes brutal telling of the truth, your flamboyant feistiness and your tender vulnerability, your undying commitment to peace, joy, and love. All these and more you have continually brought to our friendship for decades. Truly blessed am I. I am a great man because of your commitment to my life.

Anand Mani. You have always been by my side as a friend and a clarifying force. Your gift of seeing what is and what is needed is nothing shy of profound. Thank you also for two decades of truly outstanding graphic design. I would not be where I am without you.

Chuck Spezzano. For over 20 years you have been my friend and mentor. I know the kind of man, husband, father, friend, artist, leader I want to be because I see it in you. It would be easy to believe that love has limits in this world if I didn’t know you. It would be easy to believe that miracles are few and far between in this world if I didn’t know you. It would be easy to believe that friendship and caring only go so far if it weren’t for you. Your love and your undying commitment to love make a difference. You asked me to be your wingman a long time ago and, in spite of intense enemy fire, I am still here. Chuck’s website is http://www.psychologyofvision.com

Lency Spezzano. If caring, compassion and commitment had the power of 10,000 suns and took form in a human body it would look exactly like you. You have found me over and over in those places that I was sure were so dark, so lost, so lonely, so unrecoverable, so unlovable and brought me back to the full and complete experience of God’s love. You have been there for me when I was hanging from a thread at the end of my rope, shown me how it was all a huge mistake to see as I had seen, and revealed the delicious existence of Heaven on Earth. My love and gratitude for who you are and who you have been in my life and the lives of my family will continue until the end of time. Visit http://www.gaia-mind.com to find out more about this amazing woman.

Grace Dunner. God daughter to princess Grace, raised with royalty, dignitaries and aristocrats and yet so grounded in simple truths. I love the experience of seeing you resting so fully in your own regal nature _ a most attractive unity of power and humility, clarity and ease of being. You saw where my art career was going long before I did, long before any of the worlds most influential and respected individuals ever started collecting my work. Your vision is true seeing. Your friendship, a priceless treasure.

John Assaraf. You are a man who has so much in the way of success in this world and yet wise enough to know that it all means nothing without love. We have had so many heartful times together and the unending love you have for your boys, Maria, your friends, my wife and daughter and myself remain among the most luminous of all my life experiences. John’s wesite is http://www.thestreetkid.com

Eckhart Tolle. Adyashanti. Gangaji. Papaji. Nisargadatta. It is impossible to even think of you without falling into the bliss of being. The life of life crackles from every aspect of your being. You are what true freedom looks and feels like when it is lived. You are what love looks like when it has no opposition. Thank you for showing me who I am….who we all are in truth. Visit http://www.eckharttolle.com

To Richard Branson for not only leading the way and showing me that success in the world can be pure joy and a whole bunch of fun, but also for the joy and fun we have had together in my home and studio in Vancouver. You bring a smile to my face every time I think of you. Richard’s autobioraphy is at http://www.virgin.com/aboutus/autobiography/

Bill Trimble for all your kindness and support you have extended to me throughout my career, as well as the enormous amount of joy, happiness, passion, and energy you share with me, and all the world, as you demonstrate just how good life can be.

To Jack and Inga Canfield, your friendship is delicious beyond words. Jack’s website is http://www.jackcanfield.com

Jay Abraham. Your home is a museum for my art. And your friendship never ceases to amaze me with all that you so thoughtfully and generously contribute to my life. You are the embodiment of all goodness, kindness and graciousness. You inspire every time we spend time together and every time I think of you. Thank you. Visit http://www.abraham.com

To Claude Monet. You showed us all the luminosity that lives and breathes within all things. You showed me how to see truly using the vehicles of heart and paintbrush. Through this door I have traveled never to return.

And to the wise ones who have gone before us - Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Ramana Maharshi, Papaji, Gangaji, the Dali Lama and others who have shown me courage under fire and that it is possible to live love and freedom regardless of outward experience.