Doane has begun a series of new plein aire paintings working in this beautiful coastal area that has inspired him so much over the years. Take a look at the New Current Art page under the Art Galleries page for his latest paintings.

Over the past five years, Doane's commercial art work has focused on retail tile and stone design projects for local Monterey area  homeowners, designers, architects, contractors, and tile suppliers. This work has provided Doane a unique opportunity to most effectively combine his twenty years of architectural design and graphics fine arts work in one highly focused and creative tile and design practice. Doane and his wife, Sara, reside in Carmel California with their two dogs, the "boys", and two cats, "the girls."

Architectural Design Work

R. Doane Hoag is founder and principal of Doane Design, a Monterey Bay area tile and stone installation design consulting firm and Architectural presentation illustrations. With over twenty years experience as an independent home builder, designer, and architectural illustrator, Doane is able to provide homeowners, architects and tile contractors alike fresh and highly innovative solutions for their kitchen, bathroom and other home area tile and stone design challenges or illustration and rendering requirements.

Speculative residential building projects in Texas and numerous custom remodeling projects in California, Oregon, and Texas were preceded by architectural design training at California State University, Northridge, and Santa Monica City College, California. An associate with an Architectural design/graphics firm in Los Angeles honed his skills with perspective renderings and presentation techniques after graduating from college. Later employment with Xerox Corporation Data Services provided Doane additional skills in computer graphics and AutoCAD design methods.

Fine Art Work

Doane has been an artist all of his life, growing up in a family with a Grandmother, Elizabeth Lochrie (see the E. Lochrie page), who was a noted painter of American Indians, a Mother, Betty McGlynn Hoag, a well respected Northern California art Historian, and a Father, Paul S. Hoag, a successful Architect. He started drawing and painting as a child and although he majored in art in college, he considers himself mainly self taught.

Objective landscape fine art work has been published in South West Art, The New Yorker, and other publications. His work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum, the Maritime Museum, the City Hall and the Flavel Museum in Astoria, Oregon, the US Bank in Cannon Beach Oregon as well as various west coast galleries and the Happy Valley School in Ojai, California. His art work is also, of course, in private collections throughout the U.S. and Mexico.