Monday, August 29, 2011

Burning Bright

"The Road to Menerbes"
48" x 72"
Mixed Media on Canvas
(Sale Pending)
Another in a series of paintings aimed at creating an atmosphere and defy the eye's ability to view this piece as having any singular perspective. In these paintings I am encouraging the viewer to find the Spiritual within.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Unlaid Plans

Tiger, Tiger
36" x 28"
Mixed Media on Canvas

The Fearful Symmetry #1 of 3
60" x 48"
Mixed Media on Canvas
The Fearful Symmetry #2 of 3
60" x 48"
Mixed Media on Canvas

The Fearful Symmetry #3 of 3
60" x 48"
Mixed Media on Canvas
All of the pieces above are part of a new effort to work in ways that produce results which cannot be planned. Choices are made in terms of color, but the results are not predictable.

Friday, March 11, 2011

More Sky


A study for a large scale piece. I am increasingly drawn to landscapes, snowy ones at that. Low light. Small features. There is more space than actual matter.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011



"More Space"
Acrylic and Graphite on Canvas
48" x 48"



"Adrift"
Acrylic and Coffee on Canvas
48" x 48"

A friend recently gave me some information on the great German Painter Anselm Kiefer. His work deals with struggles of conscience and the reconciliation of one's individual self with a the collective past. Though I never plan to do so, making pictures of this type- on inspection after the fact- seems to relate to my past and working through fear. I don't want to get too precious about it, but paintings can be seen- per Rothko and many others- as snapshots of states and colors as feelings. The above two pieces both represent those issues and create them simultaneously.