2008 was dominated by six distinctly different themes:
TheConversation: A focused on women grouped together in non-verbal dialogue. This underlines my interest in social isolation.
Blue Room Mediations was an exploration of the human form and movement. For this I used my friend Debora as the model. A woman who, herself is an amazing artist and a fine dancer.
The Green Room series was another exploration of internal dialogs, but this time in a unified place that flavored and deepened the overall mood.
What If: A warning about being carless with the environment. Each painting takes the drastic possibilities to the extreme. What appears to be desert scenes are sea seascapes after the oceans have disappear.
The Unbound: By the middle of 2008 my work took on a looser feel and this was by design. I set aside my pencil and my desire to create a detailed sketched before painting began, and instead picked embraced charcoal which allows one to quickly sketches a subject and also capturing more of the mood and emotion of the moment. During the painting process I allowed the charcoal to merger and at times muddy the inks
The Man with the Green Umbrella just showed up. A mysterious man. First in crowd scenes, then on his own. Hunter or hunted? Lost soul? Or a man with a purpose?
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Please note: All paintings are sold unframed unless otherwise noted.
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When Madness Shatters... A New World Blooms. $600
The Hungers for Deep Water as He Mourns the Fact That He Could Not Give Her the Love She Desired and Deserved. $600
He Heads for Deep Water to Drown His Stone Heart and Forget the Woman Who Tried to Love Him. $600
His Last Thoughts Were of Her as He Merged with the Deep Water. $600
Vera Unbound: She Gazes Through the Fog of Time--Witnessing the Marching Thunder of Fascists and Their Wake of Destruction. $600
Isabella Sits Beneath the Quiet of the Night Sky Pondering all of the Years That Still Lay Before Her. $600
Lips Unbound: She Emerges to Relaunch Dreams of Equatorial Exploration Within the Hearts of Men Whose Fires Had Grown Cool. $600
She Slips Through the Green Velvet Veil and Offers Her Emerald Lips to the Man Who Has Awaited Her Since Before Either Was Born. $600
He Contemplates the Destiny He Does Not Wish to Fulfill. $600
Time Ceases to Matter as She Contemplates That Moment That Seamed So Irrelevant at the Time, But in Retrospect was the ... $600
The Artist Unbound: Yellow Jazz. $600
Sarah Maple Unbound: The Mad-Artist of Briton Sends the Faint of Heart Scurrying to the Safety of Hearth and Home as She... $600
Débora Unbound II: As the Clock Strikes Twice, She Surrenders to the Essence of Herself, peering into the Truth of Her Soul... $600
She Looks Across the Atlantic and Wonders--Does He Long for Her? $600
She Dreams of Flowing Sands and Warm Green Waters Where Dolphins Leap and Play as They Serenade Her Heart. $600
The Artist Unbound: When the Artist Dreams, He Dreams of Colors Dancing Upon Endless White Canvas. The Colors Dance the Dance of $600
Even Within the Harshest Landscape, Life Fights to Taste the Wind, and the Bumble Bee Searches Out Each New Bloom. $600
Within the Barren Land, a Signpost of a Traveler in Search of an Acre of Green Land. $600
Oh, any chance you will be at tomarrow reading? It should be good. If so, I will see you there. March 25 at 7:00 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle (Capitol Hill) Reading features poets Lana Ayers, John Byrne, Christopher Jarmick, Robert Lashley, Kristen McHenry, Belle Randall, and Michael Spence.
