The End of Nature

UNWINDING

UNWINDING

by | Jul 5, 2021

The paintings in The End of Nature series are concerned with our relationship to the environment and how we need to care for it. Here, the young boy takes a moment to just enjoy it. This began as a doodle in one of my pocket sketchbooks over ten years ago, and the...

ÉMIGRÉ

ÉMIGRÉ

by | Jan 1, 2006

A study done at the time I painted END OF NATURE VII, later finished to become a new small painting in its own right. If only she indulged in a little self-examination, she would know that she carries the means to a new beginning on her own shoulders.

END OF NATURE VII

END OF NATURE VII

by | Jan 1, 2005

Up until this point in my End of Nature series, I had portrayed the people who represent humanity in general as somewhat oblivious to the support that nature was providing for them. When I began this painting I thought of the figure as a person mislead by folly,...

EDGEDANCER

EDGEDANCER

by | Jan 1, 2002

A cautionary, “All good things come to an end…” While she dances away her day, the ground which supports her erodes into nothingness.

END OF NATURE V

END OF NATURE V

by | Jan 1, 2000

The title is meant as a double-entendre of sorts, something I enjoy doing with my personal work. It is meant to suggest that there may be more than one level of meaning in a work, whatever series it may belong to.

EROSION

EROSION

by | Jan 1, 1999

The fourth of my End of Nature paintings. The figure is stranded on a pillar of human folly, looking up to a symbol of technology—the lamppost for her deliverance from the perils signaled by the oncoming storm. Will Science light the way to the future?

END OF NATURE

END OF NATURE

by | Jan 1, 1998

The first in what became a series of paintings about our relationship with nature. All the figures are supported by nature, but the support is eroding and in danger of giving way completely if we don’t pay attention and nurture it. Simply put, if nature falls we...

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