Middle Years
By the mid-late 90’s the paintings took on a more naturalistic imagery whose subjects mingled animals in landscapes (below left: Swirl, 2000, o/c 72”x84”; below right: A Magpie, 2004 o/c, 12”x 16”). These new paintings seemed to encourage a storyline, but were really nothing more than what you invested them with. By 2005 the animal references were abandoned, and I began the large dramatic landscapes I call the “Natural Phenomena” paintings. Straight forward and earnest, these paintings depict what I knew, or thought I knew, about grand mechanisms and invisible forces which govern our planet, and luxuriate in my love of the painted surface.
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his
own nature into his pictures…” Paul Gauguin
4 Kinds of Lightning, 72″x90″, oil, wax, goldleaf on canvas, 2005
FW: Mars, 88″x84″, oil, enamel, wax, goldleaf on canvas, wood, 2005
April 4, 88″x76″, oil, wax, enamel, goldleaf on canvas, wood, 2006
Generators, 80″x76″, oil, enamel, wax, goldleaf on canvas, 2006
Eclipsed Moons, 94″x84″, oil, wax, goldleaf on canvas, 2007
The Moon is Still Okay, 90″x84″, oil, wax, enamel, goldleaf, carved object, on canvas, 2007
The Illusion and Movement of The Moon Over an Oxbow, 80″x88″, oil, wax, goldleaf on wood, canvas, 2008
Listening to Leonids, 85″x92″, oil, wax, goldleaf, pigment on canvas, 2008
Sculptural Objects, each approx. 6″x6″x12″, cedar, osage, pine, copper, aluminum, sheet metal, hemp, barbed wire, 2010-present