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 (right: “Eclipsed Moons” 94″x84″,  o/c, 2007).  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″ x 90″, oil, wax, goldleaf, on canvas, 2005 

FW: Mars 84″ x 88″, oil, wax, goldleaf, enamel, on canvas, 2005

April 4,  76″ x 88″, oil, charcoal, wax, enamel, goldleaf, on canvas, 2006

Generators, 76″ x 80″, oil, wax, enamel, goldleaf, carved object, on canvas, 2007

Eclipsed Moons, 84″ x 88″, oil, goldleaf, on canvas, 2007

The Moon is Still Okay,  84″ x 90″, oil, wax, goldleaf, carved object, on canvas, 2007

The Illusion and Movement of The Moon Over an Oxbow, 80" x 88", oil, goldleaf, on canvas, 2008

Listening to Leonids, 85" x 92", oil, dry pigment, wax, goldleaf, on canvas, 2008