Selected Works
A selection of available and sold works
Barn Series, 1.1, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 22”x55”
Full Fathom Five Gallery
I was given the use of a barn for a week of painting in 2019. Right at dawn I would get up and go the old section that had once housed dairy cows. I would set up my unstretched canvas on the old concrete floor and open a wooden door that looked out on old pasture and hay fields, culminating in a magnificent range of mountains. The way the light would play through clouds and mist and the sun rising and setting was absolutely incredible, all accompanied by the sound of frogs, grasshoppers and crickets and bird life from a nearby wetland.
Cannery Divide
Acrylic on canvas
16x20x.75
Gallery Sitka
Jack Pine Divide
Acrylic on canvas
20x24x.75
Gallery Sitka
From Above, Far Below II, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 30”x28”x1.5”
SOLD
The second in a series inspired by NASA images of land use patterns.
From Above, Far Below I, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 24”x30”
The first in the series inspired by NASA images of land use patterns. NASA and the Smithsonian have extensive online photographic resources. I had been thinking about crop-circle patterns and was entranced when I found NASA images of the subject. Taken from way, way up, the circles, rectangles and diamonds, formed by irrigation infrastructure, crop types and land use constraints such as roads and power line easements, were mesmerizing in their colors and patterns. When I set about painting, I wasn’t interested in recreating what I had seen, but rather the feeling of it — the wonder of manmade patterns that enchant, that represent food for many, and that are slowly but surely degrading the soil, the local ecosystems and the aquifers.
SOLD
Liminal Spaces: Bridge IX, 30x24x075
Acrylic on canvas
The Liminal Spaces series was created in reaction to the tension created by the COVID pandemic. The need to meditate, to create a small world of interior peace and stillness, was an essential act for many of us, if we were fortunate enough to be able to do so. I created these for myself and for others, with the hope that our respect for each other, for life, despite incredible hardships and loss, would be renewed.
SOLD
Broad Cove Salmon Pen,
2021
Acrylic on canvas, 16x20.
SOLD
Future Ghosts,
2020
Acrylic, grease and oil stick on canvas, 20x24
SOLD
Behind Thrumbcap II,
2019
Acrylic on cradled birch, 16x20
SOLD
Squall, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 30”x18”
SOLD
From the Barn Series.