Featured Work
Euphoria
A feeling of intense happiness, or well-being.
Incantare
Incantare is Latin for enchanting. The buyer who commissioned this work wanted a large painting with high visual impact, and most importantly a soothing, uplifting sensation.
I created the vision starting with the color palette and the style built off of my previous works including Svetlana’s Garden, Jardim de verão de Christine, and To Monet. The incorporation of cold wax is fundamental to achieving the muted colors, dramatic 3D textural effects and the highly desirable workability qualities.
I will be producing 3 additional works in this series each with a different color palette.
INCANTARE
Oil & cold wax on canvas
108” x 80”
2024
Gaza
“I don’t know if this is something that people will like, or whether it is cool. I just needed to express myself. My heart is torn as I see the peoples caught between what could be, and what is.”
Gaza
Enamel, raw earth pigments, pastel on canvas
108” x 80”
2023
Timeless
The second painting in my Singularity series, evokes a sense of the profound mysteries of our existence amidst the eternal celestial processes.
The heavens are eternal. The mysteries infinite. Our civilization, our species, our humanity indeed our planet is precious and our continued existence on it is fragile. The painting footnotes great ancient dynasties, points to the yet unknown, undiscovered, uncertain future and the unfolding within the mysteries of the universe.
Timeless.
Diptych on Kodak photographic blotter paper. Executed with raw powdered pigment, gouache, pen & sumi ink, metallic oil and enamel.
Each panel:
18” x 22.5”
2023
4545
Rick Evans of Zager and Evans wrote ‘In The Year 2525’ in 1969. The lyrics tell a story of man’s advance across 10,000 years and point to great changes in our existence and possible extinction. I have begun my inquiry and expressions on this subject with 4545, the year in which Zager and Evans postulate we ‘won’t need our teeth, won’t need our eyes.’
4545
Enamel and soft pastel on canvas
108” x 80”
2023
The Covid Paintings
The Covid Pandemic unleashed a torrent of anxiety and fear around the globe. Societies grappled with how to contain the spread of the virus, limit adverse economic impacts, navigate volatile politics. Individuals faced sickness, death, job uncertainties or loss of employment. All of this and more manifested anxieties and gripping fears.
The Covid paintings postulate artistically the profound psychological angst and terror that shocked and crippled humanity.
Executed primarily in enamel and oil paints, I have created vibrant mindscapes filled with creatures and forms, human and not, as such might experience a nightmare, or with a nod to Shakespeare, “A Mid-Covid Night’s Dream” and “A Mid-Covid Night’s Dream, 2nd Night”. Explore the fascinating and surreal.
A Mid-Covid Night’s Dream
Enamel on canvas
84” x 84”
2020
A Mid-Covid Night’s Dream, 2nd Night
Enamel & oil on canvas
84” x 84”
2021
About the Artist
I am a US artist educated in the US & Canada. Born in 1955 in Kansas City, MO, I began painting in the 1960’s and studied painting at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Canada and exhibited there in the 1970’s. I studied painting under the late Herman Keys. I received my BA from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School in 1986. I have worked in oil, acrylic, tempera, and watercolor mediums and across representationalism and abstractionism. My work is owned by individuals and corporations across the US.
Currently I work predominantly in the abstract with oil and enamels. My work is typically large and with captivating visual presence. My paintings are filled with vibrant colors, and stimulating visual compositions, evoking strong emotional, visual, and intellectual impact. My core tenet is, “Everything Originates in The Abstract”.
Jardim de verão de Christine
Kiss of the wind, touch of the sun, the feelings of my summer garden.
This painting is a departure from strict abstractionism veering to the boundary with impressionism. The buyer who commissioned this painting was attracted to Svetlana’s Garden- a strictly abstract work. As I was developing the painting I was pulled quite unintendedly but inexorably towards a work teetering on impressionism. The work reminded me of Monet’s movement to abstractionism, especially some of his later waterlilies paintings. So, I found myself pulled into the realm between impressionism and abstractionism. I have since discovered that others have seen this movement by Monet, and have made research and published on Monet’s journey in this regard. See Monet et l’abstraction (Monet and Abstraction) by Paloma Alarco.
Jardim de verão de Christine
Oil & cold wax on canvas
40” x 60”
2023
Waterfront
I created Waterfront to remind viewers of the feelings we experience when we amble along a waterfront taking in the bracing fresh air and sense of freedom from being in that place and space in time.
Using blues and subtle ochres and a technique reminiscent of the Canadian abstract expressionist Jean-Paul Riopelle as found in his “Des marais, 1973”.
A work of art does not need to be a literal translation to compel the viewers gaze and wonder.
Photo courtesy of Jeff & Heidi Boyle
Waterfront
Oil on canvas
84” x 60”
2014
The Monets
To Claude Monet, a subject was not what it was, but what the light made of it, writes Christophe Heinrich, in “Monet”. I find in some of Monet’s later works a move towards abstraction (Water Lilies, 1906 and Water Lilies, 1920) where dazzling-colored strokes became less literal and more gestural and where always the masterfully developed palettes of color are breathtakingly applied to create idyllic compositions.
In my homage to Monet, I endeavored to bring forth my feelings about his works, the gestural elegance, and dance of light in the colors.
To Monet I
Oil & cold wax on canvas
80” x 80”
2019
To Monet II
Oil & cold wax on canvas
80” x 80”
2019
Recent Works
Jardim de verão de Christine
Jardim de verão de ChristineKiss of the wind, touch of the sun, the feelings of my summer garden. This painting is a departure from strict abstractionism veering to the boundary with impressionism. The buyer who commissioned this painting was attracted to...