These paintings are a return to the most traditional forms of art; Still life, the figure and landscape. I had spent so many years experimenting on the computer with digital art and all its' complexities, I longed for a simpler approach. I went back to the renaissance and looked at some still life works and then inevitably found my way to Morandi. After a conversation with my friend Bruce Newell(also my teacher at San Francisco State) where he was praising a show he had just seen of Diebenkorn's paintings at the DeYoung Museum, I rediscovered his work and realized how deeply impressed I was with his paintings. I also explored the other Bay area figurative painters,especially Thiebaud, not so much the thick painted impasto ones he is so famous for but also the cityscapes and landscapes. And lastly I mention how impressive (for me), is the work of David Hockney. In these paintings,by design I stayed away from all the digital techniques that are so easy to fall into. And tried to create the images in the simplest most straight forward way I could find. Happy trails, Larry Coffin Thailand 2014