"What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you’ve made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between?” 

-- Robert Motherwell

Black Grey Red Line

Black Grey Red Line – 12x12 – Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas sheet

I prefer to work in themes. I like to investigate the various possibilities within a given framework. These thinly striped works are a distant cousin to the Veil Stripe series. Still a color field painting, but more monochromatic.

Winter into Spring

Winter into Spring – 12x12 – Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas sheet

Winter has returned here today and has brought us that wet kind of east coast cold I remember from Boston. The spring green lines in the painting hovering above the frozen tundra are equal to about the same percentage of color that is showing in our landscape right now!

Homage to Agnes

Homage to Agnes – 12x12 – Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas sheet

Agnes Martin (1912-2004) was a Saskatchewan, Canadian painter who emigrated to Taos, NM, was discovered by gallerist Betty Parsons, moved to NY where her friends and neighbors included Robert Indiana and Ellsworth Kelly. (Later she returned to New Mexico.) Her large canvases at the time were comprised of horizontal pencil lines and grids. From the Zen Buddhist and Taoist lineages, her lines represented chants or prayers, as do mine. In these difficult times you may go line by line, similar to prayer beads or a rosary, saying an affirmation at each one. As Meister Eckhart said: If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is Thank You, it will be enough.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Namaste.

First Sight

First Sight – 14x11 – Mixed media on paper

This painting was inspired by the dress my friend Kathleen was wearing when I first met her. I haven't done much with colored pencils lately but this work combines them with graphite on paper and instead of using a Titanium White or Titan Buff for the 'veil', I mixed gesso with acrylic matte medium. It has a nice feel on the hot press Arches watercolor paper and I can easily control the opacity. The matte medium nicely stabilizes the pencil, so I've also done some similar work on canvas which won't need to be under glass.

See eight of my paintings: Tropica, Fat Tuesday, Veil VIII, Alignments, Cinq Cerises, In Cahoots, Blue Berries Orange Shadows & Melon-Cow-Ly at:

Where There's Green, There's Blue
March 31st – June 30th, 2020 *

* Due to the current closing of all nonessential city of Denver businesses, this exhibit will be ONLINE ONLY until further notice... Thanks for your understanding and good thoughts! The exhibit can be viewed by clicking here.

Fat Tuesday – 24x24 – Acrylic on panel – $1200

This group exhibit has a Spring-themed palette. Lots of landscapes and nature as well as many abstracts. I have 4 abstracts and 4 still lifes in the show. When you click the link above, scroll down about half way to see my work. Purchases can still be made though the gallery: 

THE FRAMED IMAGE

5066 E. Hampden Ave., Denver, CO 80222

303-692-0727

www.framedimage.net

Happy Spring!

Lotus Sutra 2

Lotus Sutra – 16x8 – acrylic on canvas – Private collection

Happy first day of Spring! For me this painting definitely speaks to the beginning of the new season. A symbol of hope in these perilous times. It is a time for reinvention. Now that many of us are home more, free of the world's distractions, it's a perfect time to incubate, and formulate a new path forward. Take time for meditation and introspection and surely as the flower emerges from the palm chakra, new life, new ideas, new ways of being in the world will come from within. Like Spring from Winter...

Lotus Sutra 2, was donated to the Art for Life auction that benefits Project Angel Heart, a Denver non profit that brings tailored meals to the seriously ill. The painting now resides in Dana Point, CA near San Diego. To learn more about Project Angel Heart click here.