Daniel Clarke Art

California fog on a coastal scene. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide That swells and in time will ebb, and all Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the...

A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection—-a thought impalpable, to breath, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing—or hamadryads departing; A murmuring, fateful, giant...

Downton Abbey’s going off the air. I’m not through yet, it’s just not fair. Nothing before that show ever had That kind of class, that degree of flair. Life without my week...

When one is in the presence of a notable garden, the experience is gratifying and long lasting. The Norton Simon Sculpture Garden, is not only notable, but exquisite in detail. It pr...

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves ru...

As I was goin' over The Cork and Kerry Mountains I saw Captain Farrell And his money, he was countin' I first produced my pistol And then produced my rapier I said, "Stand and ...

Kilauea volcano on the Big Island roared back to life recently as lava went shooting into air, boiling away a water lake and sending a massive plume of steam, gas and ash soaring int...

The golden light becomes stronger as it shows the silhouettes of orange rock in the dried landscape. Lines formed from endless winds begin to form and the first rays beam across t...

The city of Florence lies in the historic valley of Tuscany , Along the banks of the Arno river, surrounded by hills of scenic beauty ! Here during the first century BC , the conquering Romans established their ‘Colonia Florentina’, To settle the war veterans of Caesar’s army in Northern Italia ! But later after the fall of Rome...

Walking in the high desert, My heart was ever at ease. Whether in the noon day sun, Or in the evening breeze. My wonder never ceased. The burning sands around me, And God ...

For Aragon, in Spain, I have in my heart A place all over Aragon, Frank, fierce, faithful, without fury. If you want a fool to know Why do I have it, I tell him That I had a ...

Acrylic on canvas board Forever he rules the land with regal regard as his roar sings. The pride of a Lion as he thunders announcing he is the king. His mane of gold and eye...

Son of the old Moon-mountains African! Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while A desert fills our seeing's inward span: Nurse of swart nati...

Situated just two hours north of Los Angeles, four hours from the Silicon Valley, and only 30 minutes from Santa Barbara lies the Santa Ynez Valley. On arri...

Sedona Cathedral consciousness conceived as complex matrices patterns contained within patterns. magnetic anomaly brainwave synchronization unrecognized vortex activity locatio...

Across the Serengeti plain our matriarch would lead, Dining on the guarri fruit, and gum acacia seeds. Upon our sweet green namesake grass our bellies we would fill, I'd visit wit...

Fools Gold (diptych) Acrylic on canvas board diptych This is a genuine 24-carat gold painting, red, gold, colors of the new year. For the buyer, ...

City Lights (triptych) 16" x 36" On the City we see the lights and fireworks giving us the impression that we are amongst the stars, mountains, and color of the city Triptych...

Dawn in the orange grove Golden beehive, bee's seeking honey, Where? In the blue flower, in the rosemary flower Where his love resides. He parts his ...

The green elm with the one great bough of gold Lets leaves into the grass slip, one by one, -- The short hill grass, the mushrooms small milk-white, Harebell and scabious an...

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in ...

Eagle Rock Hillside. In the Northeast Los Angeles lies the charming district known as Eagle Rock. Hills and valleys with houses nestled on hilltops. A Plein Air marvel to be sure...

The sun beats down across the California desert walls and its cracked dry ground was hard as a rock. You could see windmills in a distance of the heat wave turning in slow m...

After a cool spring rain near Palm Springs the California landscape looks so inviting full of flowers desert joy and impressionism blissfulness :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This p...

Laguna Beach longing Laguna Beach, I’m longing for highways that fade to sandy sidewalks and sunlight pouring down like golden rain in metallic hues of bronze and copper on skin softened by seabreeze and saltwater waves edged with lace-fine foam and artists who capture it all hanging above time-worn leather or galleries with auras of glass prisms and silver chrome vignettes of gas stations and traffic and crowded oceanside scenes suspended in time a sugar cone heaped with lemony gelato made salty sweet with Johnny Rocket’s fries a girl’s chlorine-bleached butternut macadamia hair dripping in coconut oils and pure light saturated pastel skies raked with spiderwebbing branches and stormed through with eucalyptus leaves she’s artlessly hanging of trees and becomes breathless smiles and bruised knees and one of those artists is brushing gold on plexiglass and she stands, coral pink flecked...

Your lips are like a southern lily red, Wet with the soft rain-kisses of the night, In which the brown bee buries deep its head, When still the dawn's a silver sea of light. ...

The canal stream is made of glass and only birds break the water edge to pose as though painted. My ticket is for the Chinese junk screened by bending mulberry trees on t...

Bistros, Barristas, or Café Coffee My soul craves for coffee Our sorrows- a storm in coffee cup When we supped, Let them get engulfed For today, my turn Just to listen and...

Summer by The Serpentine, Walking wide and lonely forking trails Passing summer games with unknown names With flags flying tied to stirring trees, Fifty stars and stripes ridin...

For the traveler who comes in from the sea, Lisbon, even from afar, rises like a fair vision in a dream, clear-cut against a bright blue sky which the sun gladdens with its gold. And...

Ocean breeze on my face, What a wonderful place. The ocean and air, The birds with no cares. It is a day to remember, So fine, So divine. My mind is so calm, ...

Bend if you can to the dark sea forgetting the flute's sound on naked feet that trod your sleep in the other, the sunken life. Write if you can on your last shell the day the place t...

Maybe it was just for this that God pulled water from dry land: to rescue hoodoo after hoodoo. That’s what they’re called— a bastardization of voodoo— these unrepeatabl...

He played by the river when he was young. He raced with rabbits along the hills, He fished for minnows, and climbed and swung, And hooted back at the whippoorwills. Strong and sl...

If you see Catalina please w'ld you tell her That a second without her is a Thousand years It may be a minute down but it seems too far Enough for a man to go pleading for prayers...

Can one conceive of any reason for a flower's beauty excepting our ability to enjoy their exquisite splendor? Of course there are scientific reasons for flowers beautiful colors such...

Beautiful Bougainvilleas Blooming all over Throughout my garden In vivid white And pleasing pink You appeal me so much Though not at all fragrant You appear Magnificent in m...

I HAVE been happy two weeks together, My love is coming home to me, Gold and silver is the weather And smooth as lapis is the sea. The earth has turned its brown to green After ...

Red Barn Eastern Oregon You are the Cascade peak cloaked in white that rises above Portland’s skyline—my mountain-temple, shining. You are Mt. Hood. You are sheer spires ...

On a rim-ledge of Bryce Canyon Beauty lives again Far from cries cacophonous And the woes of men. Color in a sweep of sound and Inarticulate, Raises spired against mankind ...

The Old Point Loma Lighthouse stood watch over the entrance to San Diego Bay for 36 years. At dusk on November 15, 1855, the light keeper climbed the winding stairs and lit the light...

The tide pools of Point Loma rival any others in the state. At low tide this place is no secret. Locals and tourists alike have heard about this place and will take their kids out to...

I sing of a River dammed, dumped, pumped and diverted; I sing of a River they almost murdered. I sing of a River the people forgot, I sing of a River that flows from the rocks… ...

A long array of cherry blossoms marching in the daylight are shimmering in white, pink and fuchsia. And as they pass through where I stand, they stop: To caress my open pal...

It's winter in Wisconsin And the gentle breezes blow Seventy miles an hour At twenty-five below. Oh, how I love Wisconsin When the snow's up to your butt You take a breath of w...

I'm stuck in Arizona All the leaves are brown, California dreaming, Malibu back woods trail with an amazing bridge! I lie about being in love with that Arizona sun ...

Perfection exists in the form of blue eyes two arm thick waists and Malibu skies Perfection exists in thick sultry words free of fallacy too undeterred What is good? Wha...

Sand, Surf, Rocks, Laguna Laguna Beach longing Laguna Beach, I’m longing for highways that fade to sandy sidewalks and sunlight pouring down like golden rain in metallic hues of bronze and copper on skin softened by sea breeze and saltwater waves edged with lace-fine foam and artists who capture it all hanging above time-worn leather or galleries with auras of glass prisms and silver chrome vignettes of gas stations and traffic and crowded ocean side scenes suspended in time As the sun sets I walk by the beach I notice all the vacant bonfires Then I turn and face the ocean Watching...

Holland is famous for its struggle against water, for dikes, abundance of meadows, canals, windmills, wooden shoes and the tulips. Ask anyone; anywhere to name things that are "def...

Holland is a country without mountain, hill or bevel. That’s quite alarming if you consider we're all below sea level. Tulips sing on the plains The terrain is large, flat and r...

Bumblebee, Bumblebee Nectar pollen and wiggle-dance, Tear off the shirt and pants, Without it I’m incomplete, Rotting in self-defeat, Awashed in a wild sea, Bumblebee, Bu...

Behind the California houses lies backyards that gleam with flowers plants and used cars. Watercolor is my name and the backyards are my game! SoCal Backyard :: Painting :: Impre...

Portland Waterfront Blossoms I went down to mingle my breath with the breath of the cherry blossoms. There were photographers: Mothers arranging their children against gn...

I think, Lorraine, it was the rain gently pattering upon my pane creating rhythm in my sleeping brain encouraging chaos bordering insane I blamed it ,Lorraine, on the falling rai...

The woman in the hotel pool swam in steady lengths, mindless of the Mediterranean, the yellow sun on harbor walls, the dance of docked white yachts. Mindless as well of my gin and tonic, or Robert Graves, buried in the thick crus...

Enter the Camarillo Roadhouse Very inviting on a long trip Tired and grouchy I turn the corner There it lies in all of its beauty Farm magic with forlorn attitudes eye at the ce...

Underweigh the ship moves through the inky waters with the full moon to guide its way. Watercolor on watercolor paper. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an offi...

Goddess but I am modest Your whole heart I hold Trace it with my fingertip melt it into gold We are abundant like our clothes on the floor Loving you all on fours Touch your p...

eason of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run...

the earth looks shiny wrapped in steam and ermine tired of us perspiring at every chance on the floor below I bring you an ash tray out of love for the ice palace because it is th...