See Recent Work at The Back Porch Bakery at The Carlton Hotel in Atascadero, CA 93422

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Morning at Green Rock

Morning at Green Rock
Morning at Green Rock.  Measures 48" x 60".  Come see the original at The Back Porch Bakery at The Carlton Hotel in Atascadero, CA.

From Cuesta Ridge

From Cuesta Ridge

 

From Cuesta Ridge (30" x 48") Oil on Canvas.

Titanomachy (2019)

Titanomachy (2019)
Titanomachy (2019)  Measures 48 in. x 48 in.  Inspired by the 10 year conflict between the first order of Greek gods, the Titans, and the second order, the Olympians.  Was a messy battle.

Art After Dark, Nov. 1, 2019

Art After Dark, Nov. 1, 2019
November 1st, 6-9 PM
Art After Dark
with featured artist
Dan Berkeland
and
live performances by the
Movement Arts Collective
2074 Parker St #100, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Sobborghi (2019)

Sobborghi (2019)
Took a road trip down the Via Appia years ago with my buddy, Emiliano, to visit his family in the suburbs south of Rome.  The imagery has stuck with me ever since.  As the years go by, those memories twist and turn and maybe get a little more psychedelic.  This one measures 48 in x 48 in, and YES! ... It's for SALE!

New work showing at the Back Porch Bakery

New work showing at the Back Porch Bakery
If you're on the Central Coast of California, stop into The Back Porch Bakery at the Carlton Hotel in Atascadero to see some of my newest paintings.  We're at 6005 El Camino Real in Atascadero.  Have a coffee and a croissant and check out some colors.  See you there!

Almost 50 Posters Available!

Almost 50 Posters Available!
Did you know that I've got almost 50 of my images available as posters?.  Most are in standard sizes that fit standard frames, but if you see an i...

Above Second Farmhouse

Above Second Farmhouse
Back in Poly Canyon.  Go Mustangs!  These are the old stomping grounds of cross country glory.  I still make it up into those hills as often as my achilles tendons will let me.  This one measures 24"x48" and, YES, it's for sale!

BOOKS I'M READING: 6000 Years of Bread

BOOKS I'M READING:  6000 Years of Bread
From the moment some Egyptian saw that stinking, stewing mass of bubbling wet flour and decided, “Hey, let’s bake that and eat it!” … to the cult worship of Demeter, goddess of the grain harvest, and her seasonal mourning of her daughter’s finagled relationship with Hades … to Jesus’ peculiar call to “take eat, this is my body” … to the Americas, where civilization flourished around an entirely different grain … to Marie Antoinette’s last ditch effort to “let them eat cake” … to the North’s wheat producing machine during the Civil War … and on and on through 6000 years of science and of mechanization and soil science and war ... ORDER HERE.

CONSUMED with Jaime Lewis: Dan Berkeland

CONSUMED with Jaime Lewis: Dan Berkeland

I sat down and talked with Jaime Lewis recently for her podcast, CONSUMED.  We covered all sorts of things ... childhood, Italy, baking, painting.  If you've ever wanted to hear me ramble for an hour, here's your chance!

Click HERE to listen.

Summer afternoon over shooters (2019)

Summer afternoon over shooters (2019)

I'm a runner.  We have different names for these trails.  But a cyclist friend put me up to this series of paintings above a trail they call "Shooters".  So here's the first Summer afternoon over shooters (2019).

A view of the California Central Coast from the ridge road at the top of Cuesta Grade looking southwest.  Those are the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo trails below.  The Amtrak winds through here a few times a day.  That's Bishop Peak on the left, Chumash Peak in the middle, and Cerro Romauldo on the right.  Yes, it's really that pointy.

And, YES!  Fine Art Prints are available here: Summer afternoon over shooters (2019).

The Fire Dance (2019)

The Fire Dance (2019)

The Fire Dance (2019).  This is an image I've returned to over the years as a sort of benchmark image for my progress as a painter.  It's a group of kids dancing in concentric circles, though it may be getting harder and harder to see the more I twist and tweek it. 

Here's the original I did back in 1997.