Washes, impasto, oil and wax, undulating patterns and spirals, metamorphosis and change describe a world in flux. Emerging and dissolving energies suggest processes in nature. Early neutral ranges of all colors give way to radiant fields, webs of color and sound.
In Flower, 60"x54", oil, 1995
Music in the Stone, oil, 60"x54", 1995
Mango, oil, 42"x38", 1996
Oread, 75"x60", oil, 1995
Uncharted Territory, oil 44"x40", 1996
Noon, oil on canvas, 42"x38", 1997
In the Beginning (Praise), oil, 24"x18", 1999
Day, oil, 42"x38", 1997
Harmonic, oil, 44"x40", 1994
Tempest, oil on canvas, 64"x56" 1990
Necessary Motion, oil, 44"x36", 1993
Spiral Tree III, oil, 56"x64", 1990
Alchemic, 72"x54", oil, 1992
Blue Web, oil, 44"x38", 1994
Time and Timelessness, unstretched linen 2010-13
Large overlapping marks simulate natural color. Issues of scale, transparency, movement, form vs. non-form evoke a physical presence connected to nature, a sense both vast and immediate.
Time and Timelessness #3, Acrylic on Linen Canvas, 42"x34", 2010
Time and Timelessness #14, 21"x17", Acrylic on Linen 2010
Time and Timelessness #19, acrylic on linen, 42"x33" 2012
Time and Timelessness #32, Acrylic on Linen, 42"x33"2012
DOTS AND POOLS 2005-2016
Black dots overlapping pools of acrylic color swirl and cascade through an indeterminate space. Imagined landscapes express energies on the move, where forces collide, overIap and whirl. I began these paintings and drawings at a residency in Montenegro, where the water is a crystal blue, and sunlight illuminates brilliant colors.
Nougat, acrylic on canvas, 16x20” 2005
Seeing Through, acrylic on canvas, 16x20” 2008
Balancing Thoughts, acrylic on canvas, 20x16” 2015
Sunlight through Turbulence, acrylic on canvas, 20x16” 2016
LANDSCAPES COMPOSITES
The pure qualities of painting: paint stroke, color, texture, scraped line, tone and light, and the simplest possible description of landscape, unite to create vivid horizontals that take the eye back and forth in the experience of absorbing landscape space. Minimal, modular, abstracted yet referencing nature, light glows through each composition.
Composite #1, acrylic on canvas, 11x56,” 2013
Composite #13, acrylic on canvas, 11x56,” 2015
Composite #18, acrylic on canvas, 11x56,” 2016