Location: United States
.........every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure....
And so each venture
Is a new beginning......
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now,under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T.S. Eliot "East Coker"
These images represent my most recent work where, using the figure of an animal as actor, I attempt to create a lush canvas full of colors that invites the viewer to ask what is happening.
24" x 48"
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 44"
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas
30" x 24"
Acrylic on canvas
I spent a month in a village outport in Newfoundland where the red fish stores compelled me to paint these images.
These paintings start as complex oil paintings but end up as more simplified acrylic paintings.
Oil on canvas
36" x 24"
Oil on canvas
17" x 14"
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 16"
Acrylic on canvas
14" x 17"
Acrylic on canvas
16" x 12"
Acrylic on canvas
47.55" x 12"
Acrylic on canvas
We spent twelve years on the island of Ibiza where I discovered the light of the south.
44" x 58"
Oil on canvas
27" x 39"
Oil on canvas
30" x 24"
Oil on canvas
17" x 24"
Oil on canvas
28" x 38"
Oil on canvas
With these paintings I am attempting to marry words and abstraction.
The full titles are the words incorporated.
Full title: NO PLACE IS HOME AGAIN, NOT EVEN YOUR BODY.
40" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas
“The Future is Only the Past Again”
Full title: THE FUTURE IS ONLY THE PAST AGAIN
ENTERED THROUGH ANOTHER GATE
24" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas
The 2009 fires.
Acrylic on canvas
Full title: THE STRUGGLE OF MEMORY AGAINST FORGETTING
24" x 20"
Acrylic on canvas
A mixed bag