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What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.
- Jean Dubuffet

NEW WORKS:  a collection of Appalachian objects

      Softly structured arrangements of natural forms that challenge traditional views of beauty, but also embrace them.  This series explores my

fascination with nature in its extreme contradictions of light and dark, calm and disruption. 

counterbalance

47 x 40 inches,  oil on canvas

totemic, 1

24 x 24 inches      oil on canvas

totemic, 2

24 x 24 inches      oil on canvas


heart of matter

30 x 30 inches,     oil on canvas

soft rain, 1

22 x 28 inches,   oil on canvas

gist,

30 x 30 inches,  oil on canvas

soft rain, 2

22 x 28 inches,  oil on canvas

SOLD red vines

24 x 24,  oil on canvas

interweave with blue lines

24 x 24,   oil on canvas

green and yellow fruit

24 x 24,  oil on canvas

fruits of the day: still-life 1

14 x 11, oil on canvas

SOLD

  

      fruits of the day: still-life 2                  fruits of the day: still-life 3

         14 x 11, oil on canvas                         14 x 11, oil on canvas

                         SOLD                                                      SOLD

 

 

fruits of the day: still-life 4

14 x 11, oil on canvas

SOLD

in the water, 1

15 x 5,  oil on paper

in the water, 2

15 x 5,  oil on paper

in the water, 3

15 x 5, oil on paper

 

old growth

36 x 36  oil on canvas

new day

30 x 30    oil on canvas

keys in A minor

36 x 36, oil on canvas

 

    This group of paintings, started in late 2011 and early 2012, marks a “coming full circle” for me.  I've experimented with landscape

abstraction in earlier periods of my career, so this series isn't an altogether new direction.  During the past few years, my desire to produce paintings that are more intuitive and less Euro-centric in format has been a catalyst for change.  

    As with my earlier, more traditional landscapes, I have used nature based imagery.   The difference now, however, is that I am focusing on more specific objects and sometimes just parts of those objects.  My observations of the woods in the back of my house offer an ever changing arrangement of colors, forms and patterns.   And, while I do some on-site sketches, I am more likely to draw on the memory of those observatons rather than recreating a landscape "scene".   Each piece is started with a combination of gestural lines and ambiguous shapes.  Lines, shapes and colors are added and taken away in layers until the composition takes form.  Before a work is in its final stages, I photograph it and digitally alter the color in Illustrator.  I use these digital “maquettes” to guide me with my palette as I complete the painting.

 

mid-winter, #1    Jan., 2012

30 x 30 inches    oil on canvas

 

            

                mid-winter, #2    Jan. , 2012

                 38 x 44 inches   oil on canvas

mid-winter, #3    Jan., 2012

42 x 38 inches   oil on canva

 

 

mid-winter, #4   Feb. , 2012

30 x 30 inches    oil on canvas

 

                                                  

                              pine woods, Jan. 2012  

                 36 x 40, 1/12   oil on canvas

  

               

      

 

   night trees, Jan. 2012

  24 x 36, 1/12    oil on canvas

 

 

 

southern light, Dec. 2011

81 x 50 (triptych,

ea. panel 27 x 50)

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     

                                      

                              

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