Personal Visions

UNWINDING

UNWINDING 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...

OBSERVATION DECK

OBSERVATION DECK “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” This Stanely Kubrick quote has had a huge influence on me, most recently through paintings like IN A WORLD OF HER OWN. In a sense, these works represent my hope for the future. Here the...

SANCTUARY

SANCTUARY SANCTUARY rose from my desire to revisit thematic ground that inspired my first gallery show at Tree’s Place back in 1997. As the orb, a symbol from my PASSAGE series, moves past the architecture of personal realities, we discover what lies beyond our limited...

IN WORLD OF HER OWN

IN WORLD OF HER OWN This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968. When I was young I originally read his comments to glean clues to understanding Kubrick’s landmark film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – but I have repeatedly gone back to that interview and...

COUNTERPOINT

COUNTERPOINT Ginkgo trees endure. They resemble fossils from prehistoric times and there were even six that survived the bombing in Hiroshima Ammonites did not. They are fossils of marine mollusks that became extinct. Classic opposites reminding us to choose our destiny...

HARBINGER

HARBINGER My initial inspiration, I believe, grew out of concern for the destabilizing and immense effects of global climate change, a sense of nature out of control and giving birth to unnatural and cataclysmic phenomena. I realize that it is not the happiest of subjects to...

AISA

AISA Aisa is associated with one of the Fates in Greek myth. The necklace is familiar symbolism in my work, comprised of Ginkgo leaves and an ammonite fossil. The hat is just there for fun.

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