OUT OF THE SHADOWS (2014)
Acrylic on Panel - 12” x 24”
With this painting I revisit themes developed in my "Passage" series, featured heavily in my first couple of one-man shows at the Tree’s Place gallery. 1/3
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THE LEAVETAKING (1992)
Oil on Canvas - 18" x 48"
I planned for this to be a large "preliminary" for a new work in my Passage series that I would paint in oils. 1/3
FOOTSTEPS (2026)
Acrylic - 12” x 24”
Measured in geological terms, the human epoch occupies a footnote in the deep history of time. Like the dinosaurs, will our moment here leave lasting impressions in the soil? Or will our expression of life fall silent like the flutter of butterfly wings? 1/3
MOON’S WINDOW (2007)
Acrylic on Panel - 7” X 5”
This window was suggested by shapes at the Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire England. (Nothing to do with the painting, but Whitby is where Count Dracula landed when he arrived in England...) 1/3
RIMRUNNER (2011)
Oil - 18” x 28”
A painting in The End of Nature subset of my personal work, which represents humanity as somewhat oblivious to the support that nature provides for them. 1/2
SHARD (2002)
Acrylic - 10” x 8”
While working on this small variation of EPHEMEROS, I was reminded of my youthful days in California and how I found more time for meditation back then. 1/2
THE RED STEP (1988)
Acrylic on Canvas - 44" x 33"
The initial impetus for doing the painting was being stuck in the first real artistic block I've ever had. I was probably clinically depressed. 1/4
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MEMORY OF A DISTANT SEA (1999)
Acrylic on Canvas - 20” x 16”
Whenever someone asked me what I do for myself, up until 1987 my answer was always my illustration because that’s what I chose to do. That’s all I envisioned myself doing, but something happened. 1/3
BLUE WHALE (1999)
Acrylic - 24” x 16”
The light she is hauling has a little blue whale on it as a sort of decal. 1/3
CHAINS OF THE SEA (2018)
Acrylic on Canvas - 12" x 16"
A small study for a larger planned painting that never happened. I began working on this at the same time as the cover for Words of Radiance back in 2013. 1/2
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