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A Return to my Kohaku Series.
The idea for the Kohaku begun in January 2013 while sitting with my friend, the poet Jack McCarthy while he was on his death bed. One of the things we talked about was eastern philosophy. I mentioned I was fascinated by the use of red and white in Japanese architecture. The combination of red and white has its own color combination name: Kohaku. When used independently of each other red or white have their own names). I find this combination meditative, which is the goal of Japanese architects.
The red compels one's eyes to travel inward and through the subject of the painting. This I hope, creates a quiet and meditative experience.
I see this as a fusion between east and west.
During 2014 and 2015 I painted 60 or 70 Kohaku. And another 30+ Scattered between 2016 and 2021. It has probably been my most popular series in terms of comments and sales. Of the 118 have painted so far, I believe I have sold 30+.
I'm glad you are embracing them.
I have and plan to continue my more emotional paintings. Face, hands, and body posture speak to the human condition.
Colliding storm fronts
$150
Sunset through misted window.
$150
A white storks view of Lisbon.
$150
As the night deepens with her sadness, the world as she knows it turns into geometric patterns.
$200
Pandora contemplates opening her box.
$150
A moment of benevolent thoughts.
$300
Surviving on a lonesome mountain side beneath a blood moon.
$200
The night of the green moon was filled with I'll omens..
$200
Overlooking Hayes Lake. A weary tree remembers it's youth .
$300
Tumbled rocks.
$300
Two views of items gathered on the trail.
$300
Temptation: Climb me. Climb me.
$300
Wondering where there green world has gone.
$300
A hint of red
$300
My hands at 60... the stories they can tell.
$300
The elephant tree along the Mount Dickerman trail.
$300
Contemplating the beauty that is Mount Dickerman.
$300
Hanging on.
$100
Nearing thistles final stage.
$120
Things witnesses in the desert.
$300
Locked in a cube never entered.
$300
That moment, when time as they had known it, ended.
$300
Trying to explain his interpretation of events.
$300
Bathing in the beauty and warmth of the sun.
$300
Trying to explain his interpretation of events.
$200
Finding tranquility with the maelstrom engulfing the world.
$200
Waiting stoicly.
$200
A moment of twisted levity
$200
Contemplating the nature of dancing trees in the moonlight
$200
The day the survived the Eruption of Glacer Peak and contemplated on all that was lost.
$300
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