Before moving to Northern California in 1990 I lived in the Virgin Islands and south Florida for several years and in Hawaii for 15 years. I was enthralled with the tropics back then (having grown up in the frigid grayness of Long Island) This was in the infancy of my painting career and the photographic record of my output is rather thin. Here are several paintings of Florida and the Big Island. I have nothing of my years in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands where I learned to paint watercolors.