Stay Awhile

An acrylic painting done in the glaze style, many layers of transparent paint layered to create depth and a surface quality unique in color.

Fall from Grace

This is an acrylic painting on hardboard. I like the way the paint handles on hardboard--also called masonite. If you buy it at an artstore you will get good quality board that won't leak glue or pitch, or whatever it is that can come through your painting later and ruin it. This painting is symbolic of feeling the power of different forces scuttling me around in my life. I guess when I did this painting, I was feeling powerless on some level, now I know I'm in charge of my life. I make my own choices.

Painting a Day

This painting and the one after it, are very small, perhaps 3 x 3 inches. They are small because I wanted to try following the painting a day movement to see if that would work for me to inspire new work. Writing practice generates new work and draws out of me different memories and scenes that I don't seem to consciously draw up, and I think this is because it is a continual practice. A Painting A Day is a movement to generate 365 paintings a year--there is a poetry movement that follows the same momentum. If you like, Google Painting A Day and see what comes up.

Branches

This is a painting of branches, brush, twigs, in the woods. It's painted acrylic on paper. It's more realistic than my usual paintings of late. I like the red color, looks sort of mysterious.

Pastel Swirls

An experimental painting in which I attempted to compose a piece that arrives in flow without forethought. The piece hangs over my bed; I like the feeling of water currents.

I painted this piece on a gessoed Masonite board. I like to leave the brush strokes in the gesso , so that when I paint over the ridges, the paint will catch on the high spots and create depth in the layers of paint.

Small painting: Vortex and Ruby

When I paint, power sometimes looks like the wound, and then the wound becomes empowered. All is welcome and invited in the creative process. Sometimes imagery coming from the subconscious can have a frightening effect on the artist. Sometimes the artist isn't moved, but the viewer is. Either way, art is a journey unfolding in waves of power.