Suddenly, Everything... series in progress - all works goauche/oil pastel/Arches paper 2024

 Suddenly, Everything...

 Sea Dreamer's Sea Stories

How Green (was) My Valley?

 

 

Climber & the Ever-Changing Vista... (I still haven't found what I'm looking for)
 

 

Ozymandias & Other Large Works on Paper

 Ozymandias - A very large work on paper (approx 5x7ft.)

 

                                                                         a size reference pic. 

 

 

Here is P.B. Shelley's poem:

 

I met a traveler from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away."

 

 

You may take everything away from me, but you will never capture my soul..

- (approx: 39x76 in.)

My Myths (not theirs)

 All works on paper - click image for larger view

The Birth of Mercury

Narcissus & how he became St. Narcissus

The Birth of Venus or, She unfolded in Simultaneity

Two works a long time evolving in development

I began this large oil painting (4x5 ft.) in 2011 and could never quite complete it. Every so often I would take it from its storage space and review it. Sometimes I would make sketches and jot down ideas, but never resume. Finally in January 2024 I resumed working on it and finished...13 years later.

Arrival at the Font of Wisdom

I produced this large work on paper during my sabbatical in North Carolina, summer of 2022. I very much liked it in its initial stages but knew that I had yet to bring it to completion, so I set it aside. I did have an original sketch but could never bring myself to add the figure of the soul flying upward into the sky-scape. In January of 2024 I finished it.

Miracle by the Sea (mixed media on Arches paper)

Portraits from Elsewhere 2023

 all work - mixed media/Arches paper

 

A wave unfolds the Seer's scrolls... haoled by sea and sky.
She invites my touch...if I promise not to change her.

How she found herself

 

 Woodsman - (on maple veneer)

Her epiphany at Owl & Pussycat Lake

Her Outpouring at Comet Falls 

Her Inpouring at the Source

2023 pieces - songs, reflections, and memories

 "People ask me how I've changed. I say, "It is a singular road & the lavender has stained my skin and me strange."
(mixed media/paper/2023/inspired by Nick Cave's song "Lavender Fields")

 

 

 

"If I ever lose my faith in you, there'd be nothing left to lose."

(mixed media/paper/2023.) - Inspired by the song from Sting.)

 

 

 

"Here he is again, the Man with the Child in his eyes..."

( inspired by a song from Kate Bush...)

Dispensations of Destiny 2023

 

Large Paper Works/ Mixed Media/ 2023

 

 The Ceremony - What We Were & Shall Be  - (3ft. 6 x 6ft. 4)

The Passionate Oracle

 

 

What he will be

 

What she will be

Say Goodbye to all that...

 

Instances of Limitless Potential to Signify - 2023

Instances of Limitless Potential to Signify -

2023 (mixed media on paper)

click image for larger view.

 

 

Empathy Bridge (Diptych)

 

Calling forth the δαίμων

In a moment of inner clarity she recalled the source of her strength

This is the second work of this series in which I have used the Nike-of-Samothrace...as a symbol of hope and strength. She has an extra wing here and has stepped out of her boat....The Woman in foreground is in touch with her own feelings of power and Hope....

 

When the sleeping giant is 'roused..many uncanny occurrences manifest.

This piece is about primal energies welling up and bursting out of pent up recesses...like the volcano. The uncanny occurrences are caused by attempts, both distorted and clarified, as we interpret and deal with the unsettling effects of transformation on our lives. The fallen statue in ruins, the Janus-headed figure, the weird little lion and turtle, all represent unexpected manifestations.

Icarus Re-interpreted
In the myth Icarus was punished for his ambition by flying too close to the sun. But are not man's ambitions, curiosity, and natural inclinations, also the source of his more altruistic and inspired impulses? In my re-interpretation the big white feather represents one of Icarus' more noble aspirations and has saved him from from being dashed to the earth...instead he lands on his own two feet, unscathed.

 

She surrendered her fears to the great unknown with but one hope...that her beauty was also her strength.

Ophelia remembered.

 “Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.”
― Karl Jaspers

 Nature Boy and Birth of the Imagination...

 

 

Lifting The Veil – color works & Assemblages 2023 –

 

Unseen but not Forgotten - assemblage - mixed media/paper

 

Love took them Deeper - assemblage - mixed media/paper

 

 

The Arrival - assemblage - mixed media/paper

Leda's Lost Egg  - assemblage - mixed media/paper

 

 

 Ritual to dispel Chaos - assemblage - mixed media/paper

 

     The Wordless Conversation      (mixed media triptych on wood panels)

How they found themselves and each other    (mixed media triptych on wood panels)

 

Lifting the Veil series - black/white and gold series - 2023

 

 

 Always more than the eyes see.

mixed media/Arches paper 

Tugging at the dimensional threads.

oil/canvas 

Rescued by Green Man

 Rescued by Green Man  oil/wood panel 16x20 in. 

Summer 2023 .

 

Within Worlds - paintings 2023

 all works oil on canvas or wood panel - click image for larger view

 

 
In the Temple of The Heart  

 

 

Approaching the Cathedral of The Heart 

 

 Invitation to step outside the box...

 

 

Unfathomable Assistance

 

Oracle

 Oracle

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