"Swallow"
30"x32" 2011
oil painting

Sparrows and Seeds
46"x 52" 2010
oil painting

Saving Grace
30"x46" 2009
oil painting

What is Spoken What is Felt
18"x 22" 2009
oil painting

The Bluejay's Call
18"x18" 2009
oil painting

All A Heart Can Hold
30"x41" 2009
oil painting

The Glamorous
17"x19" 2008
Oil Painting

The Doormat
20" x 24" 2005
Oil Painting

Crocus, Bees, River, Trees
35"x50" 2008
Oil Painting

Willow
36"x60" 2007
Oil Painting

Reykjavik
30" diameter 2007
Oil Painting

The Queen
17 "x30" 2007
Oil Painting

Watched From Above
30"x20" 2006
Oil Painting

 

Becoming Wallpaper
2005
Oil Painting

 

Thought Patterns
14"x18" 2002
Oil Painting

 

 

As Tall as a Tree
Oil Painting

Gone

Oil Painting

 

Inside it's Still Summer

Oil Painting

 

His Latest Flame

Oil Painting

You Can Take It With You

Oil Painting

Summer Became Winter

Oil Painting

The Rescue
23" x 30" 2001
Oil Painting

Faith
40" x 30" 1998
Oil Painting

Big Sunflower

Oil Painting

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

What is carried as memories and episodes from the past influences who one is and becomes. Their essence can wrap around and weave through our bodies shaping our beliefs
of the world and ourselves. This concept and its effects, whether positive or negative
has been a consistent theme in my work. I paint the figure primarily in black and white
not only because it symbolizes the past, but also because it emphasizes the contrasts
that we deal with in both our inner and outer worlds.
I then combine the figures with colored patterns or images of nature
that convey those hidden emotional persuasions or blessings we carry.
Fire has been an image that has reoccurred in my work and is used to represent
certain relationships. Like some personalities, fire holds a hypnotic beauty that is
ultimately deceptive. It has an awesome power to destroy what is vulnerable but ironically,
it cannot exist without the wood it consumes.
The intrinsic power that each element of nature has is undeniable, and when combined or matched with each other, one is either enhanced or defeated.
Water can cleanse and nourish yet is capable of stealing breath by drowning.
It can be serene and transparent, or violent and dark.
And when its blues and greens painted on a canvas are changed to oranges and reds,
they become fire. Water confined to a kettle is turned to steam by fire;
fire engulfing a home can be doused by water and reduced to smoke.
All of these ironies are what I find so intriguing,
reminding me that things are not always as they seem at first glance.
They remind me to value the tiny delicate bird as much as a movie star legend,
to listen to the wisdom the quiet brings as much as I would a blaring movie screen.