Literature

Persistent Thoughts, Arguments and Symbols

The paintings selected for this folio represent a shift in my creative process and have evolved from what are persistent thoughts, arguments and symbols. These ideas are playing out over and over in my mind and in my current paintings, much like a commercial jingle or phrase that gets stuck in your head...

Early Spring - Painting From Three Sources

My paintings evolve from three sources: direct observation of the external world, my mind’s eye, and my subconscious. Direct observation forms the basis for most representational art. The mind’s eye is the store of observed images which each of us collects throughout our lives. Finally, works from the subconscious strive to completely shut down the first two sources...

Still Water - Reflective Surface

This period of work began as small representational paintings of the shorelines of ponds and lakes using oils on watercolor paper. The work progressed to large-scale impressionistic style canvases capturing the tranquil energy, textures, patterns and rhythmic movements of water surfaces as breezes passes over them…