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The "Rare and Precious Things" series of paintings represents my response to the intrusive impact of design, marketing, data collection, and artificial intelligence on the fine art of painting. These influences, I believe, dilute the unique beauty of personal expression and tailor art to appeal to specific demographics. They strip away the intangible mystery of individual creativity, replacing it with quantifiable metrics as a rationale for art-making. This approach, by imposing order and predictability, undermines the rich interplay between chaos and harmony that is essential to authentic artistic expression.
Painting, in its essence, embodies the full spectrum of human expression driven by an inherent yearning. This yearning flourishes in the dynamic relationship between image and object, where art transcends mere representation and delves into the realms of myth and the natural world. Religious myths, with their profound narratives and symbolic meanings, echo in the layers of paint, infusing my work with a sense of the sacred and the sublime. Similarly, scientific theories that explore the nature of reality and consciousness resonate in the way light and color interact on the canvas, mirroring the complexity of the universe.
The natural phenomena—such as the play of light, the texture of surfaces, and the vastness of space—provide a backdrop to the visual language of painting. These elements merge with the enigmatic and the familiar, creating a vivid interplay between chaos and order, content and form. Just as scientific principles describe the behavior of physical elements, my paintings explore the deeper truths that lie beneath the surface of the material world, engaging with both the tangible and the intangible.
Drawing from Abstract Expressionism, Asian and Baroque landscape painting, my work is a continuum of artistic exploration that incorporates historical movements and artistic elements—such as color, line, space, form, shape, surface, texture, movement, and scale. This exploration is enriched by the interplay of light and shadow, reflecting the scientific understanding of optics and the metaphysical quest for meaning. In my art, chaos and harmony converge to create a luminous and immersive experience, demonstrating how disorder and structure can coexist to reflect the complexities of existence.
I meticulously consider color saturation, dominance, value, temperature, balance, contrast, and transition, employing both additive and subtractive techniques, often working wet on wet to evoke diverse sensations. The paintings celebrate the intrinsic beauty of paint and its transformative potential while engaging with elusive and suggestive imagery. They serve as a visual metaphor for the complexities and ambiguities of our interactions and perceptions, shaped by our imagination, beliefs, and the profound mysteries of existence.
In this way, the "Rare and Precious Things" series not only challenges the constraints of contemporary art-making but also invites viewers to reflect on the deeper layers of reality that influence our perception and creativity. Our imagination, as a powerful and boundless resource, holds vast creative potential but can also mislead us into perceiving what does not truly exist. Through the interplay of chaos and harmony, my work aims to navigate these uncertainties and reveal the profound beauty that lies in the balance between the known and the unknown.
I Want Paintings…
I want paintings that are pregnant with possibility and impossibility.
I want paintings that are full of emotion and thought.
I want paintings that stimulate the imagination.
I want paintings that are illusionary, delusionary, and contradictory.
I want paintings that are mystical, ethereal and otherworldly.
I want paintings that transport you to another universe.
I want paintings that are lushly beautiful and idyllically utopian.
I want paintings that are vulnerable, fearless and heroic.
I want paintings that are relentless and unforgiving.
I want paintings that are a force of nature.
I want paintings that are tumultuous, which pull on your eyes and head, tilt a room, and suck you in.
I want paintings that billow and wail.
I want paintings that are a storm that strafes the earth and sky.
I want paintings that smoke and burn.
I want paintings that are luminous and glow from within.
I want paintings that leave you breathless and wanting more.
I want paintings that sing and dance with delight.
I want paintings that revel in themselves.
I want paintings that are erotic.
I want paintings that awaken your senses.
I want paintings that slip, slide and slither in the dirt.
I want paintings that grow.
I want paintings that are fluid.
I want paintings that I can taste and smell.
I want paintings that nourish.
I want paintings that are animated and alive.
I want paintings that are primordial.
I want paintings that suspend time and disbelief.
I want paintings that are expansive.
I want paintings that touch the infinite…
24”x 48”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 20243.
30”x 42”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
70"x 70", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
62”x 62”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
60”x 60”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
54”x 54”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
I am an atheist. With all the various gods and demons that people have and still believe in through force, indoctrination, socialization, or choice, I cannot bring myself to any rational conclusion of the existence of one supreme being, except for the sense of awe that I experience found in nature. Only in nature do I find an equivalent to what might be considered, God. Instead of all the religious wars that have decimated populations of people, let's finally recognize all the devils and gods for the myths that they are, but allow their often interrelated stories to affect our imaginations for the benefit of all.
42”x 38”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
50”x 36”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72’x 82”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022.
I like the challenge of moving between small and large scale works. The small pieces are intimate and the large scale works envelope me as I'm working, putting me inside the painting, which involves my entire body. I include intimate visual passages within the larger paintings that create a transition from the small scale to the large adding layers to the experience of seeing. The challenge comes from the use of different tools used in each that are relative to the spatial characteristics inherent to the change of scale. I increase my brush sizes and the sizes of spackling tools as I scale up the paintings, by doing so, there is a consistency in my technique of mark making from a small scale to large, which enhances the illusionistic qualities of the work.
72”x 96”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022.
72”x 96”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
I arrive at my titles for paintings after the work is somewhat developed and approaching completeness. Usually there are combinations of colors, shapes or marks in the painting that suggest a name to me. Naming comes from the painting itself, sometimes this happens quickly and other times I can’t find the words. My titles are a summation of the thoughts and feelings I have from the time I spend painting, they provide another form of connection beween me and the viewer. A name is intuitive, as are the paintings.
60”x 72”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72”x 96", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72”x 96", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
I have experienced beautiful, rare, and precious things in my life that to share the specific occurrences in words would diminish their meaning. The feelings from these events are best described as something that is unexpected, indefinite, yet overwhelming, elusive, and entirely numinous, as if brushing against the divine. I feel my eyes dilate and the hair on my arms raise; my skin has goosebumps; I am moved to tears and will try to choke back crying out loud; is it a sense of awe? I have felt this way in the presence of great beauty in nature, exemplary musical performances, films, and the visual arts. I find that this happens when I leave myself behind and become completely immersed in a moment. My imagination transports me to a place outside myself, where time does not exist, and I encounter a sense of infinite wonder. I long for the feelings that are aroused from such experiences, which I repeatedly pursue in my paintings.
72”x 60”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
62”x 60”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
50”x 40”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
46"x 42", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72”x 60”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
84”x 58", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
20”x 48”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72”x 60”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
38”x 38”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
48”x 48”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
38”x 50”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
32”x 36”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72" x 68", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
34"x 30", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
40”x 58”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
24’’x 42”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
44”x 72”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
28”x 28”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
58”x 56”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
48"x 48", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
58”x 58”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
30”x 84”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
68” x48", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
My paintings bridge the ambiguous space between representation and abstraction. I’m fascinated how the familiar and the unknown slip from one to the other right before my eyes. How a simple gesture, a turn of the wrist with a loaded brush may become a flower, landscape, figure, or some other manifestation of my imagination. Then in the next moment the same mark is nothing at all, but a colored smudge on a surface, and reverts to the plastic material of paint to become some insignificant part of the rectangular object before me. With such an experience, my paintings signify an underlying existential truth of the temporal nature of all things, and yet paradoxically, the painting itself defies such impermanence.
56”x 34”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
68”x 48”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
84”x 84”, acrylic, spray, on aluminum, 2024.
84”x 84”, acrylic, spray, on aluminum, 2023.
36”x 30”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
36”x 54”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
48”x 38”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
38”x 38”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
36” x40”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
38"x 48", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
84”x 62”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
72”x 84", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
Painting is seductive, she holds me under her spell and I am subjugated by her delights. I am compelled by her daily rituals and illusions before my eyes that stir my imagination. I surrender and I am lost in her magical realm.
34”x 62”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
Each of the paintings in the, Rare and Precious Things, series rely upon instinct and intuition for their expression. The paintings develop organically, naturalistically - meaning that they begin with incidental, seed-like marks that grow into full, rich, blooms of color, form and space, which integrates idea, process and image into a single entity.
72”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
84”x72”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
My color frequently shifts between degrees of darkness and light to enhance an illusion of space and emotive qualities in the work. I use an array of colors, which reinforces and compliments such ideas that the inert material of paint itself may be anything, and that the intent of painting is to embrace all of human experiences
48”x 44”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
60”x60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
Painting is a goddess that possesses me, I am under her spell.
44”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
72”x 72”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
48”x 48”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
44”x 40”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
48”x 48”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
38”x 38”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
30”x 30”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
26”x 38”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
Imagination and creativity are a river that flow from me, and I surrender to it. The unknown is my current that pushes and pulls at my banks, expanding my breadth, directing me this way and that. I careen through turbulent rapids and drift through silent pools on a journey toward wholeness and infinite wonder.
22”x 28”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
36”x 30”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
28”x 48”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
10”x 24”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
10”x 24”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
44”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
Here is where I find my faith
A renewal of love for myself and humankind
On a continuum born from so many
Both alive and dead
Stretching through time from firelit caves
To a legacy left behind after I'm gone
Stirring some unknown future imagination.
30" x 48”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
30”x 32”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
20”x 20”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
12”x 14”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
32”x 36”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
30”x 36”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
32”x 32”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
26”x 34”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
26”x 30”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
36”x 38”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
20”x 20”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
10”x 10”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
10”x 10”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
10”x 34”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
30”x 84”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
Several painters, including Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler, have referenced Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, and specifically, Ariel’s Song, in titles of their work. The passage follows; ‘Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange…’. Painters have drawn parallels in their work with the mystery and power of the sea to transform the structure and appearance of things submerged over time. The liquid plasticity of paint has a similar affect to alter otherwise inert material into 'something rich and strange’, which is how painters bring meaning into existence. Every moment of our being is marked by miniscule and monumental change. ‘The only constant is change’, so observed the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus. My paintings are a record of the often unperceivable, sometimes unforgiving, unrelenting, but necessary transformations that we experience from moment to moment.
40”x 120” overall triptych (each panel 40”x 40”), acrylic, spray, on aluminum panels, 2023.
24”x 30”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
22”x 28”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
The act of painting embraces the entirety of human expression, driven by its innate longing. This longing thrives within the magnetic connection formed between an image and an object. Painting, in essence, amalgamates the realms of imagination and reality, blending the mysterious with the familiar.
12”x 46”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
38”x 38”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
34”x 30”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
16”x 16”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
16”x 16”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12’”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
14’x 16”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
16”x 16”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
18”x 18”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
10”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
16”x 16”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12’”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12"x 12", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
12"x 12", acrylic, enamel, spray, on canvas, 2024.
12”x 24”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
14”x 36”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2024.
20”x 14”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
18”x 18”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
12”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
10”x 14”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. SOLD
10”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. SOLD
12”x 12”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
10”x 10”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2023.
24”x18”, ( framed size 31”x 25”), acrylic, ink, charcoal pencil on double matte mylar, mounted to 100% rag board. 2024.
24”x18”, ( framed size 31”x 25”), acrylic, ink, charcoal pencil on double matte mylar, mounted to 100% rag board. 2024.
24”x18”, ( framed size 31”x 25”), acrylic, ink, charcoal pencil on double matte mylar, mounted to 100% rag board. 2024.
40”x 26”, (framed size 45” x 33”), acrylic on Lennox print paper, 2024.
21”x 18”x 3.5”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on oak, 2024.
22”x 21”x 2.25”, acrylic, enamel, spray, on oak, 2024.
62”x 50”, acrylic, spray, on cut canvas fragments, 2023.
18"x 7.5"x 11", acrylic, enamel, spray, on carved wood, 2024.
18"x 7.5"x 11", acrylic, enamel, spray, on carved wood, 2024.
28”x 15”x 10” deep, acrylic, spray, on cedar root, 2023.
30”x 26”x 19” deep, acrylic, spray, over cedar root, 2023.
17”x 10” x 12” deep, acrylic, spray, on carved volcanic rock, steel, limestone, 2024.
17”x 10”x 10”, acrylic, spray, on carved volcanic rock, steel, limestone, 2024.
14”x 10”x 10” deep, acrylic, enamel, spray, on carved volcanic rock, steel, limestone, 2024.
27”x 12”x 13”, acrylic, spray, over carved volcanic rock, limestone, with 39.5”x16”x 16” steel base, 2023.
overall height 66.5”, acrylic, spray, over carved volcanic rock, limestone, on steel base, 2023.
