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Photography captures a moment of time and attention - never repeated exactly - it becomes a mirror of my immediate awareness.
Faces – even those of complete strangers - readily give us clues about personality, appearance and state of mind. But we also rely on body language, gesture, tone of voice, and facial expressions to fully realize the person, and when that face is frozen in a moment of time (as in a portrait), we are limited in the clues that are revealed.
I am intrigued by faces that are suspended in a specific moment of time – a moment when the person has retreated to some unknown interior space or conversely when they challenge the viewer with a direct look. We cannot know their thoughts, but complex emotions can be signaled in the simplest look or gesture, and although their faces offer clues to a private narrative and history, we are left to create a biography based on our own curiosity, assumptions, and biases. And we are doomed to never know if we guessed correctly.
Witness, oil & encaustic on panel, 16” x 12”
Woman in Orange, Pensive Women series, oil on canvas, 28"x28"
Zhena, oil on canvas, 24"x28" Sold
Woman in Red (Pensive Women series), oil on canvas, 24"x18"
Eliza in Winter, oil on canvas, 16"x12"
Portrait of a Muse, encaustic & oil on panel, 10"x8"
Eliza in Spring, oil on canvas, 16"x12"
Faces of my Mother, Sweetheart, oil on canvas, 14"x18" Sold
Faces of my Mother - Daughter, oil on canvas 14"x18" Sold
Wednesday's Child - Full of Grace, encaustic & oil on panel, 6"x6" sold
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 16"x11"
Timeless, fragile, brief
Humanity burns brightly
Reflections of falling stars
Our darkness becomes light.
* * * *
We are measured
by vastness beyond ourselves.
Dark is light.
It’s not our humanness
that limits us.
It is the vastness
we do not enter.
It is the stars
we do not let own us.
Apogee Moon, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 8" x 8"
Contemplating Albedo, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 16"x16"
Perigee Moon, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 8" x 8"
Visions of Ptolemy, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 10"x8"
Congruence of the Spheres, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 10"x8" Sold
Strolling Through Galaxies, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 10"x8" Sold
Gallileo's Playground, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 10"x8"
The Dark Side of the Moon, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 10"x8"
Destruction Creation, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 10"x8"
Rise of the Planets, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 6"x6" Sold
The Universe Is In All Things, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 8"x8" Sold
Waning Moon, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 16” x 16”
Waxing Moon, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 16” x 16”
Ecclectic - deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of source. And Eclectics were a class of ancient philosophers who did not belong to any recognized school of thought but selected such doctrines as they wished. Weighing options, keeping an open mind - that sounds like the right way to live one's life.
Most of my encaustic paintings are eclectic, but can still be categorized. These defied categorization... Hence..."Eclectic". Our perceptions of the natural world can often be represented and understood as geometric expressions of form, proportion and relationship. When viewed as symbolic descriptions of the metaphysical and archetypal principals that guide and control universal evolution, they can be represented mathematically or – as in my paintings – as visual representations of physical phenomena – either natural or man-made.
These works build on the visuals of color, shape and texture as well as the underlying symbolism of specific geometric forms.
Dreams of the Future, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 16" x 16"
Memories of the Past, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 16" x 16"
Isolation No.2, encaustic and alcohol ink on panel, 12"x12"
Consensus, encaustic and alcohol ink on panel, 12"x12"
Slander and Lies,encaustic and alcohol ink on panel, 12"x12"
Unity in Diversity, encaustic and alcohol ink on panel, 12"x12"
No. 5, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 16"x16"
Squaring the Circle, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 12"x12" Sold.
Oklahoma Panhandle - Winter, encaustic on panel, 12"x12"
Oklahoma Panhandle - Fall, encaustic on panel, 12"x12"
Oklahoma Panhandle - Spring, encaustic on panel, 12"x12"
Daybreak, encaustic on panel, 16"x16"
Always I return to nature and the beauty of its complex simplicity…
Encaustic Pear, encaustic on panel, 8"x8"
In Remembrance of You, encaustic and mixed media on panel, 12" x 12" Sold.
Nude Leaf, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 12"x12" Sold
The Grasshopper & The Fly, pen & ink and encaustic on joss paper, 12"x6"
Daybreak, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 12"x12"
Bird of Paradise, oil on canvas, 16"x16"
Red Heart Agave, oil on canvas, 18"x18" Sold
The Blue Wall, oil on canvas, 22"x28"
Green Agave, oil on canvas, 24"x18" Sold
Desert Lotus, oil on canvas, 18"x28"
Blue Agave, oil on canvas, 24"x18" Sold
Tuscany Lemons, oil on canvas, 12"x16" Sold
Waterlilies at Dusk, oil on canvas, 12"x16"
Red Adobe Wall, oil on canvas, 18"x12"
Calla Lilies, oil on canvas, 30"X12"
Old Fashioned Roses, oil on canvas, 16"x12"
Symbolizing curiosity, exploration and discovery, maps are both the beginnings and the ends of journeys. They represent the known and the unknown; the found and the searched for; the reality and the mystery.
There are many kinds of maps: maps of exploration; maps of measurement; maps of places and boundaries; maps of conquest; maps of navigation – all of which characterize our human curiosity to explore and understand our world.
Maps need to be “read” to be interpreted and these pieces are intended to encourage the viewer to look past the obvious and question their assumptions between what is known and what is presumed; what is perceived and what is inferred; what is accurately rendered and what has been rendered from the imagination.
The newer work has been a fun exercise in using maps to parse very specific and quirky data and information.
Each piece of the "Compass" series contains elements from antiquarian maps and cartographic treatises from the 16th and 17th centuries.
A Map of Odd Habits, encaustic, ink, watercolor on panel, 11" x 14"
A Map of Perfectly Ordinary Departments and Bureaus, encaustic, paper, ink, watercolor on panel, 12" x 16"
DETAIL: A Map of Perfectly Ordinary Departments and Bureaus, encaustic, paper, ink, watercolor on panel, 12" x 16"
Journey's End, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 6"x6"
Landfall, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 6"x6"
Magellan's Faith, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 6"x6"
The Edge of the World, encaustic & mixed media on panel, 6"x6" Sold.