It's Not a Home, it's a Vibe
48" x 60"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brushwork
Silver Metal Floating Frame
2025
Golden hour emerges from a grey sky during a live painting demonstration in Marin, California.
Feeling California
36” x 48” in Gold Frame
Oil on Canvas, Brush & Knifework
Sky and sea merge in the dusky arrival of the evening fog over San Francisco as seen from Belvedere Cove - the glistening gold reflections remind you of its allure and proximity while enjoying the natural distance between us.
New York State of Mind
36” x 48” in a Bronze Frame
Oil on Canvas, Brush & Knifework
Cool greens expand into the woodsy horizon as fall patterns blanket the dusky evening in this Westchester County nook.
Blue Moon Rising
30” x 48”
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Silver Wood Float Frame
2025
Truman Show moon makes a fashionably late entrance to the nightscape of Tiburon, eliciting a late night encore.
Ascension
60" x 40"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brushwork
Silver metal floating frame
2025
Inspired by a plunge into Lake Geneva, verdant green luminescence swirls into the mountain blue water as the diver surfaces into a realm of light. The colors and temperature are designed to transcend time and dimension, inviting us to look within ourselves and awaken dormant aspirations.
The Awakening
60" x 48"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Bronze Metal Floating Frame
2024
Earthly tones and metallics vibrate to illuminate the human experience and reveal a path forward. Triangles are used to represent energy and symbolize the journey toward enlightenment.
Awaken
36” x 60” in Bronze Frame
Oil on Canvas, Brush & Knifework
This vista of Angel Island, bathed in the peach and pomegranate hues of sunrise over the Raccoon Strait, evokes feelings of rejuvenation and memories of morning light from my early years in the Bay Area, when the future was unwritten and the warm tones stimulated a promise of new beginnings. As an expatriate from the East Coast, these colors create a sense of majesty and awe, along with a sense of renewal and connection to the natural beauty of this stunning locale.
Grounded
48” x 36” in Green Frame
Oil on Canvas, Brush & Knifework
Evokes the feeling of being grounded. Ethereal light bathes the thatched canopy of redwoods and invites you into its sheltered embrace as the path opens to all possibilities. Here you can experience all ages of your lifetime and use them to forge a new timeline.
Bonsoir, Lou Lou
40" x 60"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Gold Metal Floating Frame
2025
Inspired by the mood of the French impressionists, the light in this piece has a bronze filter that echoes the gilded age of artists that frequented this knoll along the Tuileries. The restaurant glows in amber light, reveling in the dawn of the evening.
Golden Gate State of Mind
40" x 60"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Bronze Metal Floating Frame
2025
An amalgam of the cultural zeitgeists in San Francisco, from the gold rush to the dot com era. AI waits impatiently on deck as her gilded aura sings a siren song.
Serenity
60" x 36"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
2023
Still life of iridescent seashells on wet sand.
After the Apple
60" x 48"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
2024
An awakening of spirit as animated figures emerge from the earthly metal tones. The title refers to the moment Adam and Eve ate the apple and came alive.
Here I Am
36" x 60"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
2024
Inspired by a reunion with my younger self, this is a visual representation of past versions of me as told through youthful energy and spring colors.
She Comes in Colors
60" x 48"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
2023
Inspired by an anniversary trip to Paris after spying an Elle Decor feature on home decorating, which included numerous radiant colored furnishings. The arrangement felt like an abstraction awaiting to appear.
The Afterglow
48” x 60”
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Silver Metal Floating Frame
2024
The Afterglow portrays the emotional experience of being human. The remnants of euphoria, represented by glowing, luminous colors, fade as the weight of human existence takes hold. The deep blues symbolize this heaviness, and the once angelic figures are transformed into human beings, grappling with the complexity of human emotions.
Looking for Me?
30" x 30"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Gold Wood Floating Frame
2024
Inspired by the self promoting expressionism of the late seventies New York art scene, it was originally intended to be a Warholian interpretation of Mick Jagger, which morphed into a captivating muse, emerging from a halo of radiant colors.
Golden Gate Blues
20" x 24"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
White wooden floating frame
2020
Painted live on Instagram while sheltering in place during COVID. "It felt like walking a tightrope while followers and friends watched the Golden Gate Bridge emerge."
Alacrity
60" x 60"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work; mica powder, resin
2022
A series of mistakes while creating this piece unveiled a luminous midnight world of portals and illusions.
Reflection
72" x 36"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work, 24k Gold, copper, and silver shavings. Amethyst stone nested in Resin
2022
Exercise in dramatic textures and colors designed to embolden the viewer. Versatile abstraction allows for multiple interpretations vertically and horizontally - from an Egyptian goddess to a Mediterranean sunset. Energetic palette knife movements dance across the canvas.
Negroni Love - Summer in Italia
36" x 36"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work
Gold Metal Floating Frame
2025
Sunset in Amalfi filtered by Negronis and the beat vibrating from the Mediterranean Sea below. Also a nod to the Mind Enterprises classic EDM hook, which we played on repeat during our trip through Italy this summer (IYDKNYK).
Vie du Soleil
60" x 48"
Oil on Canvas, Palette knife and brush work, Resin with 24kt Gold Leaf & Copper Leaf
Gold Metal Floating Frame
2023
After a tumultuous personal period, Higgins was inspired to invigorate his senses, and had always wanted to create an orange painting. He created a vision board of every shade of orange, drawing from architecture, nature, and fashion (highlighted by Kate Hudson’s pool coverup in The Glass Onion). Energizing!