Featured Work

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.

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.”

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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