Welcome to the colors and romance of the tropical underwater world as seen
through artwork, books and music by a marine biologist who has been diving
on coral reefs and writing about tropical life, both above and below water,
for the past 40 years.

Take your time
exploring the
paintings and books.
Have a drink and a cookie[ enjoy the music ].

Music

Jay has been playing and composing music for longer than he cares to remember, on keyboards and trumpet, in brass bands, dance bands, Dixieland and modern jazz bands, rock bands, blues bands and as a soloist in bars and restaurants in Australia and the Philippines. Here are some of his compositions.

REEF SONGS
OTHER SONGS

There is music everywhere on a coral reef—in the constant movements of fish; in the shapes, colors and contours of the corals; in the darkness of caves and the brightness of moonlight, in dangers seen and unseen. Reef songs need no words.

These reef songs are Jay’s improvised, spontaneous expressions of life in and around coral reefs derived from more than 40 years of diving and snorkeling around the tropics, and painting portraits of fish and reef scenes. In nearly all the songs, Jay plays what comes into his head, thinking of the dynamics of an underwater scene. No retakes or corrections. However, a bass track has been added to some to enhance their moods.

Moonlight on my hands

This melody came into my head while snorkeling over a moonlit coral reef late one night. I turned off my flashlight and became fascinated by the pattern of the moonlight on my hands and across the reef. By stirring the water, I could make many stars appear, not from the reflected sky but from the myriad plankton drifting by.

Lionfish

Lionfish are stealth hunters. Slowly, they close in on their prey with their big fins fully extended like a net to stop it from escaping. Suddenly, the lionfish gulps and the prey has disappeared, sucked into the lionfish’s huge mouth. I left spaces in the music when they lunged and killed. I played the music on a keyboard in one take as I thought about them, leaving spaces when they lunged and killed. After, I added strings to heighten the tension.

Anilao reefs

The reefs around Anilao in the Philippines are full of colorful hard and soft corals and small fish. The closer you observe these reefs, the more color and variety you find, hundreds of species of fish, and of corals and other marine creatures.

Polka Dots and Parrotfish

Imagine fish that swim the way birds fly—flapping their fins like wings. That’s how parrotfish cruise around the reef, biting at the corals with their parrot-like teeth as they go. The whole song was again one thought, one take, and a bass added later.

Dangerous reefs

Here, I recalled through my fingers the wonders and perils of a dive. It could be an underwater tour of almost any coral reef. Everywhere there is beauty and danger. The reef can draw you down and down; suddenly it may be too late to return safely to the surface.

Hermit Crab Crush

Doodling on the piano, a bass line reminded me of hermit crab trails that you can see on tropical beaches. Some kinds of these crabs live out of the water and fossick for food among the rocks when the tide recedes and even on dry land. When touched they withdraw into their shell (where the music stops) and when the danger has passed, swagger off (the bass solo).

Shy butterfly(fish)

‘Shy Butterflies’ was the only way to describe these portraits of butterflyfish I painted some time ago. Looking at them, I thought “you look so lonely” and those words formed the tune, short and bitter sweet.

Ebb and Flow

n the reef shallows, the swell ebbs and flows gently among the corals; small fish swim in and around them, risking the waves but safe from larger predator fish that cannot enter. In this song, I let my hands lose themselves as I played my visions of a wave-washed reef over the background swell.

Jeepers Sweepers

Tiny sweeper fish huddle together in hundreds and move in wavy masses among and under the corals. I imagined them doing underwater ballets and making bursts this way and that in a single take. Then I recorded a second, also spontaneous, track to accentuate the crowding and movement.

Moonlight on the Other Hand

I enjoyed the moonlit reef scene so much I wanted to relive it all over again through a second version of the song. I hope you find the same enjoyment in these interpretations of life on coral reefs—reef songs.

About Jay

Jay Maclean, Australian, likes to paint, write, windsurf and play jazz (keyboards), not always in that order. Also does consulting work on tropical marine and agricultural resources. Enjoys. Has a fascination for everything about the tropics; lives in the Philippines with his Filipina wife Margie.

Jay graduated as a Master of Science in marine biology at the University of Queensland, worked at a desk biologist in Canberra for seven years, a fisheries biologist in Papua New Guinea for two years, and the CSIRO in Sydney for another two years. During this time he married; had three children, Camille, Serena and Cameron; and was eventually divorced. He worked in the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Manila from 1980 to 1996 and has been an independent consultant since then. He married Margie in 1985. Their son Marlon, born in 1996, lives in Australia.

Jay and Margie have a modest beach house in Batangas with a coral reef at their doorstep, which has been the source of inspiration for much of Jay’s painting and writing. His visual art career began with a visit to the artists’ colony in Angono, near Manila in the early 1980s. He learned techniques in oils and after a few years began exhibiting with the Angono Artists Association. He is now a full-time visual artist but still finds time to write short stories.

Writings

Jay has been writing for a living most of his adult life. His earlier output was mostly technical or semi-technical documents on aquatic life and environments. He began writing for himself in a serious way after a very near-death experience during scuba diving in 2007. He put together a series of nonfiction short story books based on events and experiences in the Philippines and beyond.

He has written four full-length books: an account of the challenges, hazards and triumphs of research in remote areas of Papua New Guinea; a novel about where paradise on earth has been sought and where it would most likely be; a fictional book on what would have happened if the Pacific islanders and their way of life had conquered Europe in the 17th century instead of the other way around, an adventure story that points out the very different future the world could have had; and a short, fully illustrated book for youth on tropical marine ecosystems.

The latest work (The Fart of a Fly, 2018) is a collaborative compilation of short stories with another Australian, Batuto López Garcete, that mixes humor and mystery with ideas for a better future and ways to achieve it.

Jay hopes you will enjoy reading his books as much as he has in writing them. They are all available (at very modest prices) on major e-book retailer websites around the world.

Writings > Short Stories

Sometimes in Business Class

Here is a perfect book for airplane and armchair travelers; an alternative view of airlines, flying and destinations. Many people fly around the world from meeting to meeting, soaking up wine and the attention of airline stewards and stewardesses, clocking up free mileage, and working out tax breaks or how to sock away their travel allowances. But, as these stories about 1990s travel show, there is much to be learned along the way, from the airline wine tasters' ramblings, to the mystery of brown dogs in Dutch 17th century paintings, to the bus terminals beneath Rome's Augustine Gate, and possibly the real story behind the last tango in Paris.

Mostly in Economy Class

Mostly in Economy Class continues the ups and downs of flights and sights in Europe revealed in—and reveled in—Sometimes in Business Class, but this time in Asia—where adventure, surprise and wonder are around every corner, in incidents and events from the apparently trivial to the exotic to the erotic. Mostly in Economy Class begins with an adventure in China in the early 1980s that may or may not have ended in a dangerous escape to the west; the reader must decide. After the secret world of China, the tales move on to Thailand before and after its temples were overrun by tourists; two faces of Japan in the 1980s; Angkor Wat, Cambodia at a time when Khmer Rouge guns could be heard in the distance, and later after the guns were silenced; South Korea before it emerged as an economic powerhouse, when the country seemed to be almost in a parallel universe; life and poverty in Bangladesh; footpath etiquette in the quaint French quarter of Hanoi; post-Macdonald’s China; and more. Read on!

Coach Class to the Americas

Spanning the late 1980s to 2000, Coach Class to the Americas reveals aspects of life and times in the Americas that will probably not appear in history books—in short stories that take the reader from the lighter side of elections in Washington DC to fashions in Waikiki, from the guilt of sun seekers in Canada to the violence of fishers in the Galapagos Islands, from the grilles of US automobiles to the restrooms of Detroit airport, from altitude sickness in Quito to shrimp trapping in the Georgia Strait, to the big San Francisco quake of ’89, to poverty and homelessness both east and west, and the strange peril of Nanaimo.

The Fart of a Fly

A kindly visitor from another galaxy arrives to find Earth in a bad state. Humans have overrun the planet and are living on a knife’s edge, supported by increasingly higher technology to maintain life while the climate changes around them and even the gas from the fart of a fly could tip them over the edge. Calling himself Astral Traveler, or AT, he brings the two authors together, planting in their heads stories about the disastrous fate of his former planet, which was destroyed under similar conditions that he sees developing on Earth, and stories that illustrate those conditions on Earth—with the resulting future scenarios. The authors are unaware of AT but decide to write this book on the topic. The stories are mostly set in Australia, Paraguay and the Philippines. They include stories set in plausible futures as warnings of where we humans are heading and healing essays on simple changes to our way of life that promote better futures for both the planet and its peoples. AT also sends the authors on humorous or mysterious sidetracks when he finds something interesting for his readers back home.

Crying Trees, Killer Fish and Rental Corpses: Only in the Philippines

Which Asian country had a killer fish designed as a counter insurgency measure, a president who took over an island to make a private family game park of African wild animals; a revolution involving millions of people without bloodshed; coup plotters who took phone messages for you; more earthquakes, eruptions, floods, landslides and typhoons than just about any other country; a mountain where the bizarre becomes the ordinary; cities and villages where poverty and death display an innocent cheerfulness; corpses that are rented out to gamblers; and coral reefs that are home to more kinds of corals, fish and other marine life than anywhere else on the planet? Crying Trees, Killer Fish and Rental Corpses: Only in the Philippines follows a journey of discovery in the Philippines during the 1980s and 1990s, before globalization began to strip away its culture along with charming folk beliefs, corner stores and local markets.

Electric Angels and Pink Bikies: The Expatriate Life

Moving away from home, leaving the nest, could be the beginning of a voyage that ends in a faraway country we would not have even considered when we set out—until we got there and discovered its secrets, its culture, its undiscovered paradises. Half a lifetime ago, the author ended his voyage of discovery, in the Philippines, a country with one foot in the world of fairies and spirits, and where every event has an unusual twist, whether wedding or funeral, kidnapping or vasectomy, getting a driver’s license or getting a haircut. There are fascinating destinations far from the beaten track and a vibrant music scene that is everywhere present, even in the operating theater. Typhoons and earthquakes add a different kind of excitement. These events and experiences, sometimes comic or tragic, always compelling, are described herein.

With the Rise of the Wind

With the rise of the wind brings together short stories about the author’s thoughts and insights as he absorbs the wonder and mystery surrounding the shore on a tiny piece of the South China Sea. The rise of the wind draws out once buried thoughts and emotions dormant in the hearts of those who occasionally stand or sit near the shore and become hypnotized by the power and moods of the sea. There are little stories here also about the people living beside this sea on a coral-reef fringed provincial coast and the mountain behind it; about earthquakes and typhoons and their effects above and below the sea; about the lives of birds and snakes, of fish and starfish; with fragments of home-spun philosophy, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography and volcanism, as well as idle thoughts about how the universe comes together at the shore.

Writings >Novels

Found, Lost, Paved, and Sunk: Paradise

Where is paradise on earth? Somewhere far from the maddening crowds, the cold, the politics, work, of course. People have been searching for their paradise for centuries, even before taxation was invented. The stories of those who wrote about their exploits often reveal more about themselves than the nature of the paradises they sought and sometimes found. Did you know that Sir Walter Raleigh was the world’s first pusher of paradise real estate? Or that among the explorers of tropical paradises, the infamous Captain Bligh of the Bounty was quite humane and considerate? Or that Captain James Cook was the first westerner to get a tropical, full body massage—and was pretty coy about describing it? That the original Shangri-La paradise was a mix of ascetic monks on top of a Tibetan mountain with a tropical village of loose women at its foot? That Thor Heyerdahl and his first wife honeymooned for a whole year in a remote tropical paradise, leading to his Polynesian migration theory and the Kon Tiki expedition? Found, Lost, Paved and Sunk: Paradise explores the mind set of artists, beachcombers, colonial administrators, developers, explorers, hermits, missionaries, mutineers, philosophers, scientists and writers, not to mention the native residents who were already living in the paradises they sometimes describe. Learn about the mechanics and problems of living in a paradise, dealing with neighbors both onshore and offshore, shelter, water, and health. Learn about the fate of paradises under colonialism and climate change. Learn also about the opinions of other animals and plants; where is their paradise?

The Conquest of Europe by Pacific Islanders

Today, Pacific islanders have lost most of their tropical culture and have become unwilling citizens or dependents of temperate countries; following modern western democracy and societal norms, which date back but a few generations, replacing the islanders’ far longer-standing societies. What if history had gone another way? What if the Pacific islanders had taken over those temperate countries instead? That would have been impossible, of course, or would it?

This is a novel of high adventure with many messages. Its consequences would have resulted in a surprising fate for humanity and society far different to the uncertain fate of the world and its societies today.

Black Pearls and Red Tide

The strange death of three young children in a small coastal village in faraway Papua New Guinea in March 1972 did not rate a mention in the territory’s annual report that year to its Australian governors—let alone make a ripple in international ponds. Yet, it was an event of incredible proportions. It marked the end of a chain of knowledge that extended back more than 45,000 years; it heralded the beginning of an era of immense, baffling phenomena and disasters around the world; and it marked the rise of a deadly toxin from the seabed that would spread from country to country.

It is a story that encompasses much of the globe, from the Pacific islands to Asia—Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines—to the Middle East—Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and the Egypt of the Pharaohs—to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the Americas, and to Australia and Antarctica. It is a detective story too, about who or what killed the three children, taking us in helicopters, light planes, speedboats and a naval patrol vessel, and on underwater explorations. It is a romance spanning a period from the tail end of the Paleolithic era, pausing for a less ancient exodus, that of the Jews from Egypt, and for Cleopatra’s—incredibly expensive as we will see—dinner with Marc Antony, and leap-frogging through events over the following two millennia via connections with Spanish kings, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the most famous pair to play the part of Cleopatra and Marc Antony in modern times: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Finally, it is the story of a young scientist sent unknowingly as a spy into Papua New Guinea shortly before its independence. How did he find himself enmeshed in the threads of this strange puzzle and what did he discover?

Writings > Technical Books

In a Perfect Ocean

Recent decades have been marked by the decline or collapse of one fishery after another around the world, from swordfish in the North Atlantic to Orange Roughy in the South Pacific. While the effects of a collapse on local economies and fishing-dependent communities have generated much discussion, little attention has been paid to its impacts on the overall health of the ocean's ecosystems. This book, co-authored by Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean (2003) presents the first empirical assessment of the status of ecosystems in the North Atlantic ocean. Drawing on a wide range of studies including original research conducted for this volume, the authors analyze 14 large marine ecosystems to provide an indisputable picture of an ocean whose ecology has been dramatically altered, resulting in a phenomenon described by the authors as "fishing down the food web." In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean is a landmark study, the first of its kind to make a comprehensive, ecosystem-based assessment of the North Atlantic Ocean, and will be essential reading for policymakers at the state, national, and international level concerned with fisheries management, as well for scientists, researchers, and activists concerned with marine issues or fishing and the fisheries industry.

Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries

Inspired by the work of the renowned fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly, this book, published in 2011, provides a detailed overview of ecosystem-based management of fisheries. It explores the complex and interdisciplinary nature of the subject by bringing together contributions from some of the world's leading fisheries scientists, managers and conservationists. Combining both research reviews and opinion pieces, and reflecting the breadth of Pauly's influence within the field, the book illustrates the range of issues associated with the implementation of the ecosystem approach and the challenge of long-term sustainability. Topics covered include global biodiversity, the impact of human actions on marine life, the implications for economic and social systems and the role of science in communicating and shaping ocean policy to preserve resources for the future. This book provides a complete and essential overview for advanced researchers and those just entering the field.

Rice Almanac

The 4th edition of the Rice Almanac (2013), for which Jay was the coordinating and substantive editor, continues the tradition of the first three editions by showcasing rice as the most important staple food in the world and all that is involved in maintaining rice production. It also breaks new ground in its coverage of issues related to rice production, both environmental--including climate change--and its importance for food security and the global economy. It also further expands coverage of the world’s rice production area by featuring 80 rice-producing countries around the world. The statistics presented are derived primarily from FAO, which include official country data (FAOSTAT), surveys, reports, and personal communications; IRRI’s RICESTAT database, which is based on primary data from requests and questionnaires and secondary data from statistical publications and international organizations including the International Labor Organization and the World Bank; and regional data from AfricaRice and CIAT

Biology, Epidemiology, and Management of Pyrodinium Red Tides

This book, published by Jay in 1989, contains the Proceedings of an international conference and training workshop on the Biology, Epidemiology, and Management of Pyrodinium Red Tides, held in Brunei Darussalem in May, 1989; it was organized by Jay and Gustaaf Hallegraef, who also co-edited the book.

Writings > Book for Youth

In Tropical Seas

In Tropical Seas explores the variety of animals and plants to be found on a tropical beach, between tides, in seagrass meadows, mangrove forests and coral reefs. It describes how they are all connected and depend on each other and us. A timeless book for young and old, it is a colorful introduction to tropical marine life and why we should care for it.

Published in 2014 by the E. Zobel Foundation, Manila, the book is out of print (No ebook version).

Sample page from "In Tropical Seas"

Get in touch with Jay

Paintings

Paradise Series
Tubbataha Dreaming
Series
Plywood Acrylic
Series
Other Recent Works

Jay has been painting and exhibiting his works in the Philippines since 1987. He is an honorary member of the Angono Artists Association and has collectors in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the USA.

His artworks focus almost entirely on marine subjects, especially Philippine coral reefs, a major national heritage. All Jay’s works have the aim of confronting the viewer with the underwater world as something both beautiful and vital that we cannot afford to lose, a message that is becoming more compelling as this important heritage is threatened more and more by pollution and climate change.

The international diving magazine X-Ray Mag, in a 2017 profile of the artist, said his works were “brilliant paintings of stunning underwater scenes using unique angles and artistic techniques.“

Paintings > Paradise Series (dimensions are in inches)

Surgeon in Paradise 1 - 18 x 14

Surgeon in Paradise 2 - 18 x 14

Turtle’s paradise - 16 x 12

Parrot’s paradise - 24 x 48

A passing parrotfish in paradise - 16 x 12

Batfish paradise 36 x 24
(Private collection)

Two groupers and the teardrop in paradise - 36 x 24

Grouper in paradise - 18 x 72
(Private collection)

Raccoons in paradise - 36 x 24
(Private collection)

Coral paradise - 36 x 24

Paintings > Tubbataha Dreaming Series (dimensions are in inches)

Follow me 60 x 24

The anemone 60 x 24

The eagle rays 60 x 24

Under a coral ledge 16 x 12

The red starfish 16 x 12

Shelter 12 x 16

Spawning night 12 x 16

Spawning night: Chances of survival 12 x 16

The abyss 1 12 x 16

Sense of freedom 12 x 16

Falling 18 x 24

Carefree 12 x 16

Wishing 16 x 12

The abyss 2 18 x 2 4

Sweetlips fantasy 11.5 x 13.5

Explorers 18 x 24

The wall 2 36 x 48

The Batfish - 36 x 24

The Jacks - 18 x 14

The Wall - 12 x 16

When a clam smiles - 18 x 14

Hunting at Twilight - 36 x 24

The Wall and the Turtle - 12 x 16

The Passing Parade - 60 x 24

Whale Shark Canyon - 16 x 12

The shallows - 16 x 12

The rangers’ station - 16 x 12

The wall and the whale shark - 16 x 12

Shark corner - 16 x 12

Paintings > Plywood Acrylic Series (dimensions are in inches)

Blue Coral Spawning - 48 x 40
(Private collection)

Coralscape #1 - 48 x 40

Coralscape #2 - 48 x 40

Coralscape #3 - 48 x 40

Grouper Cave 1 and 2 - 8 x 48
(Private collection)

Hunting By Night - 48 x 40

Paintings >Other Recent Works (dimensions are in inches)

Narcosis 16 x 12

Mischievous damsels 48 x 36

Portrait of the artist as a young coral reef 12 x 16

The soft coral garden of Solana 1 12 x 16

The soft coral garden of Solana 2 18 x 14

Grouper in Coral Spawn - 16 x 12

Home of the Green Damsels - 12 x 12
(Private collection)

Gathering of the Cardinals - 14 x 12

Where Cardinals Lurk - 36 x 24

Enigma of the Coral - 16 x 12

Penant and Trigger - 11 x 12
(Private collection)

Divers Last Rapture - 18 x 14

Night of the Jellies - 30 x 20

SOS: A Plea from the Sea - 36 x 24

Future Kings - 18 x 14

Stormy Sunset Over the Reef - 18 x 14

Sweepers 3 - 18 x 14

Undecided - 16 x 12
(Private collection)

No Coral No Fish - 24 x 36

Paintings > Other Acrylic Paintings (dimensions are in inches)

Always curious - 24 x 48
(Private collection)

Below the dropoff - 24 x 48
(Private collection)

Comfort Zone - 60 x 24
(Private collection)

Coral Composition - 96 x 36
(Private collection)

Coral reef dropoff - 24 x72
(Private collection)

Coralscape - 72 x 72

Cruising Lionfish - 20 x 16
(Private collection)

Ethnic Reef - 18 x 22
(Private collection)

Fish moving over a coral reef 1 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 2 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 3 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 4 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 5 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 6 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 7 - 18 x 14

Fish moving over a coral reef 8 - 18 x 14

Fish on the rocks - 36 x 24

Going Home - 60 x 36
(Private collection)

Lionfish Close Up - 36 x 24
(Private collection)

Lionfish Profile - 24 x 36
(Private collection)

The Nemo Effect - 56 x 23

red grouper in coral - 36 x 24
(Private collection)

Reefscape - 108 x 24
(Private collection)

Three Racoons - 12 x 16
(Private collection)

triggerfish - 20 x 40
(Private collection)

turtle profile - 12 x 9

Two Batfish - 72 x 24
(Private collection)

Paintings > Exhibition

Exhibition Content

Solo exhibitions

1998. Paper Moon Restaurant, Makati, Manila, Philippines 7-31 October.
1999. Australian Centre, Australian Embassy, Makati, Manila, 16 August - 10 September.
1999. University of the Philippines Mindanao, Davao City, November.
2009. Club Punta Fuego, Nasugbu, Batangas, April-June.
2014. Podium mezzanine, Ortigas, Manila, 18-30 June. Solo exhibition and book launching.

Joint exhibitions

1987. Angono Artists Association at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Joint exhibition, December.
1988. Angono Arts Festival at the University of the Philippines, 2-16 December. Angono Artists Association.
1990. Sining Angono: Nuon at Ngayon, Angono 30 November to 9 December. Angono Artists Association.
2000. Shangri La Hotel, Mandaluyong, Manila, October 2000. Unang Hakbang Foundation.
2016. SM Angono, Rizal, November. Angono Artists Association.
2018. Yuchengco Museum, Makati, Manila, 13-27 October. Philokalia, Our Legacy. International Artists League (Artists: BenCab, Ross Capili, Raul Isidro, Mon Orlina, Rod Samonte from the Philippines; and Mon Coloma, Bert Estanislao, Jay Maclean, Alfredo Roces, and Jun Velasco from Australia).

Links to other websites featuring the artist

Painting portfolio and interview for X-Ray Mag, September 2017:
https://www.xray-mag.com/content/jay-maclean-portfolio

Early oil paintings:
https://sites.google.com/site/macleanstory/paintings

Acrylic paintings:
https://sites.google.com/site/macleanstory/jaymacleanacrylicpaintings

Exhibition and book launching in the Podium, Manila, 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/macleanstory/jaymacleanacrylicpaintings and http://philippines.embassy.gov.au/mnla/medrel140618.html

International Artists League at Charisma Fine Art:
http://www.magnanimityinc.com/coloma.html

Paintings > Recent Works

Paintings > Selected Oil Paintings (dimensions are in inches)

The continuum - 36 x 60

Clownfish at home - 36 x 24
(Private collection)

Windless at Anilao - 36 x 60
(Private collection)

Giant clam - 48 x 22

Three butterflyfish in vase coral - 18 x 24
(Private collection)

Butterflyfish on mixed coral - 18 x 24
(Private collection)

Lionfish in cave - 48 x 33
(Private collection)

Grouper portrait - 20 x 14
(Private collection)

Manta # 1 - 24 x 24

Sweepers #2 - 48 x 48

Manta # 3 - 24 x 24
(Private collection)

Manta #4 - 40 x 30
(Private collection)

Angelfish - 19 x 13
(Private collection)

Ghost pipefish - 60 x 18
(Private collection)

Striped puffer - 60 x 24
(Private collection)

Going home (surgeonfish) - 48 x 36
(Private collection)

Pointed butterflyfish - 15 x 20

Dropoff - 19 x 36
(Private collection)

Blue hole nightmare - 46 x 33
(Private collection)

Aliens - 60 x 24
(Private collection)

Going home - 60 x 36

Eye of the puffer - 30 x 60
(Private collection)

Trumpetfish - 72 x 24
(Private collection)

Clown sweetlips - 36 x 24

Manta among fusiliers - 12 x 12

Curious grouper - 36 x 24
(Private collection)

Popeye (weaverfish) - 60 x 36
(Private collection)

Grouper profile - 48 x 36
(Private collection)

Looking up #5 - 36 x 60

Red grouper close up - 36 x 60
(Private collection)

Butterflyfish profile #1 - 33 x 24

Butterflyfish profile #2 - 33 x 24

Reefscape 2000 - 60 x 36

Mysterious butterflyfish #1 - 18 x 72
(Private collection)

Roli’s dream - 16 x 30

The boss (lionfish) - 36 x 60
(Private collection)

Parrotfish - 36 x 60
(Private collection)

Rabbitfish - 36 x 72
(Private collection)

Blue squirrelfish - 60 x 24
(Private collection)

All puffed up - 60 x 60

Sweepers #1 - 60 x 36
(Private collection)

Mysterious squirrelfish - 18 x 72

Mysterious butterflyfish #2 - 18 x 72
(Private collection)

Paintings > Selected WaterColor Paintings (dimensions are in inches)

Hostile Triggerfish 1999 - 15x22
(Private collection)

lapu lapu head #1 1998 - 16x12
(Private collection)

Study for a lionfish 1999 - 22x24

2 clownfish in anemone 1994 - 15x11
(Private collection)

Street of sidewalk art Rome 1997 - 16x12
(Private collection)

Street scene with cathedral Orvietto Italy 1997 - 16x12
(Private collection)

Portrait, brown blennie 1999 - 14.5x20
(Private collection)

Portrait, yellow rabbitfish 1999 - 14.5x20
(Private collection)

Looking up 2 fish 1999 - 16x12
(Private collection)

Looking up single fish 1999 - 916x12
(Private collection)

Looking down steps #1 1999 - 16x12
(Private collection)

Looking down steps #2 1999 - 12x16
(Private collection)

Looking down with fisher 1999 - 16x11
(Private collection)

Bancas on rocks 1998 - 16x9.5
(Private collection)