The Montreal Sessions 2019
Artist’s Statement:
These paintings, completed in Montreal, concern themselves with ideas of transformation and the power of Nature. Composed with acrylics, oil stick, pastels, and pen.
Artist’s Statement:
These paintings, completed in Montreal, concern themselves with ideas of transformation and the power of Nature. Composed with acrylics, oil stick, pastels, and pen.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas.
24" x 36". 2019.
SOLD
In the waiting room, some are waiting to be heard, some to be released, some to be embraced, some to be healed, some to be re-united with loved ones.
Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, pen on canvas.
24" x 32". 2019.
The beauty of the hidden in our world.
Acrylic, inks, oil pastel, pen on canvas.
24" x 36". 2019.
Is it possible to grasp one's whole life in one moment? Or to see one's life with all its suffering as part of a natural cycle much larger than our ability to grasp it?
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen, thread, on canvas
26" x 26". 2019.
SOLD
String theory belongs to physics and an attempt to comprehend the forces that make up the Universe ( a bit of the equation is hereby included). And Music is the universal language connecting all living things (so, a few notes from Beethoven's Ode to Joy). Flowers are the evidence that we live surrounded by grace. A flower may give us a glimpse of the physics and the music if we are open enough. A few strands of thread are included to show there are crafts that combine the practical and the artistic in harmonious ways.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas
30" x 40" . 2019.
Scheherazade is the female protagonist of the Arabian Nights. She outwits the Sultan, not only saving her life but also the lives of other women doomed through their beauty to be killed the day after the wedding, of a forcible marriage to the Sultan. Every night she tells a different story but makes sure to not end the story, thereby ensuring her survival for at least one more night. And this continues for one thousand nights, at which point the Sultan gives in. She is not only a heroine of one of the most important narratives of world literature, she is also a symbol of the power and importance of story, of narrative. In this painting, she appears in the doorway of a jewelry store and everyone there is affected. The middle of the painting is a semi-abstract compilation of jewels and piles of gold.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas.
30" x 40". 2019
An ironic look at the American dream. The pastoral associations are undercut by the military vehicles and missile launchers. The people underneath the billboard are sleeping or drunk. The billboard is advertising rum – one of the elements in the creation of the slave trade through the demand for labour to harvest sugar cane in America.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas.
16" x 20" . 2019 .
The last show of beauty before the killing frost the next day.
Acrylic, oil, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas
22" x 28". 2019 . SOLD.
If we close off our minds, it is possible to appreciate the world as the play of constantly changing patterns.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas
18" x 36". 2019 .
The seed contains the plant in full, but as possibility. To produce the plant, the seed must lie in the earth, in darkness, but in that darkness, with the right combination of factors there is an explosion of life and light.
Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, pen on canvas, moulding paste, on canvas
22" x 28". 2019.
SOLD
Landscape that also has a sculptural element through moulding paste, and a graphic element in the background to add associations of times past.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen, on canvas
30" x 40". 2019 .
SOLD
A microscopic look at creation with the energies of play.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen, pencil, collaged artist drawings, on canvas
30" x 40". 2019.
Verisimilitude is a reference to what is called believability in literature. Today we are confronted with so many narratives we have a hard time deciding which are important, which are true or valid. In one instance in one place, many different versions of city blocks and many different narratives come to life through the gathering and passing by of people, but no one may see what is actually happening, even if it is an ascension.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil pastel, pen on canvas.
24" x 36". 2019 .
The associations of comfort and play with humans in a calm sea are now challenged and overturned through the ship’s explosion.
Acrylic, oil stick, oil paste, pen on canvas.
18" x 24". 2019 .
The circles don't stop moving, though they may be slowing down.