Lost & Found

 This work from 2023 is part of my 'Outpouring' works. All done in Brevard, North Carolina during my cathartic retreat.  ' New Morning Woods near Big Pine'. (mixed media/Arches paper/ 32.50x50 inches). It was packed away in a mislabeled portfolio and rediscovered in December 2025.

Mysteries 2020-2025

 The Mystery Series 2020-2025

This series of pieces was begun in 2020. Most were fully sketched or blocked in and some color had been applied. However, I put them in a portfolio and moved on to other projects. In 2025 I reviewed them and decided to finally complete them.

All work- mixed media/Arches paper

Mystery of Summoning, or, Quit interfering with what you wish for and allow your Intent to flow freely.

Faith does not require protection. There is too much carrying on when fears turn gentle giants into Leviathans or, Mystery of Deliverance.

The Mystery of our transparent masks, or, Wading through the reflections of surface society.

Mystery of the Bloodlines & The History of A "Calling".

Mystery of what is seen & unseen, what is heard and unheard.

Mystery of what is concealed & what is revealed.

Clairaudience Mysteries. Let those with ears hear. But be mindful of translations as the voice of the turtle. Let it be as though unspoken.

Pause in an Abstract Conversation

Pause in an abstract conversation
(28x50 ins./gouache/casein/paper) 

Autumn 's Inward Journey

 Perhaps

(Casein,Wax resist, Gouache,Paper)

Love The Giver.

(Casein,Wax resist, Gouache,Paper)

You Placed Your Hands Over My Ears...

(Casein,Gouache,Wax Resist/Paper)

The Sojourner's Memory

The Sojourner's Memory (oil/canvas)

 

The Beggar & St. Martin

 

The Beggar & St. Martin

In my interpretation the Beggar only accepts Martin's horse, ignoring his offering, golden coins and fine clothes. Sainthood may not always be practical.

(gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper 37x53 ins.)

Reimagining Manet’s Works

Reimagining Manet’s "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” - or - Picnic on the Lawn Role Reversal

(water color/gouaches work 31x42 ins.) I had a comical notion of reversing the character’s sexes.I decided to dress the women (or gender ambiguous seated figures) in a similar style to the original painting. I love Manet’s wonderful oil painting and you will see how I did use his general layout, but did my own thing. After all, I was not trying to copy his masterpiece. But I think the irony and peculiarity of my piece is obvious.

Olympio (gouache/casein/Arches paper 29x38 ins.)

Édouard Manet painted his 'Olympia' in 1863. It was considered controversial, shocking, even scandalous. I couldn't resist adding it to my series of 'Role Reversals'. Again, I am not trying to copy another of Manet's masterpieces. I am simply exploring an idea. My humorous take, 'Olympio', switches the sex of the main figure and also the Black servant, who now becomes a handsome friend; made evident by his tray with two wine glasses, two forks and a piece of cake to be shared. The cat too, now white, is no longer menacing.

For reference:

October 2025

 Messenger

(mixed media/Arches paper)

Oil painting aromas in the studio

 

The Return

Conversation with Saint Francis

Let it be as if unspoken

September 2025

 The Midnight Dance (Ritual for Deliverance from Distortion)

 (gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper 39x44in)

Offer your gifts freely unbridled...

                                                            (gouache,oil pastel,Arches paper)

Oracle

(gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper 38x49ins.)

Visits to the Cathedral of Nature - August 1, 2025

Visits to the Cathedral of Nature - August 1, 2025

Encounter
(mixed media/Arches paper/28x44ins.)

Cleansed !

(mixed media/Arches paper/28x44ins.)

Cures (mixed media/Arches paper)

 

The 5th Element, or Heal Thyself

The Cure

Earth Balance Cure

Rescue & Relief - June/2025

 

Her Epiphany at Owl & Pussycat Lake

(gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper)

Taken by Surprise in a Sea of Unpredictable Ambiguity.

(mixed media/Arches paper)

Birth of Mercury

(mixed media/Arches paper)

Her Inpouring

(mixed media/Arches paper)

May/June 2025Paintings/Canvas

Unspoken Conversation

(oil/canvas/30x40in.)

A Message from Out of The Blue

(Mixed media/canvas/30x40in.)

May &. June / 2025 Looking Inward

Discovery of the Primordial Flower.

(mixed-media/Arches paper/approx. 42x50in. irregular edges)

Swimming My Love To You...

(Arches paper/mixed media)

Should you conjure up a personal sphinx, it's best not to ask or answer any questions...

(Mixed media/ Arches paper/ 37.50 x 50 in.)

Thinking about a quote from Rilke: “It is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret." 

(Mixed media/ Arches paper/ 42 x 46 in.)

Sophia was never to reveal her secret.

(Arches paper/mixed media/38.50 in 53.50 in.)

Ophelia...don't go yet...

(Arches paper/mixed media/36x47 in.)

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Pierrot Disheveled

(Mixed media/Arches paper 29x44.50 in.)

Suddenly Everything 2025

Suddenly everything, visible & invisible was connected...followed by Divine Nonchalance.

How Green (was) my valley...  

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Sea Dreamer's Sea-Stories 

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Fantasy Works Spring 2025

The Rich Fox & The Poor Fox size one another up. Yet, they are both Foxes..

Rescue -2025 Work on Paper

                                                                  The Birth of Impulse

 Transurfing Eternity- or, What Time isn’t It?

 Birth of Dionysus .

Very Large Paper Work - 2025

Ceremony: What we are & What we shall be.

(VERY LARGE mixed media/Arches paper 3ft.6in.x6ft.4in)

Started this piece last May 2024/ set it aside - finished it 1/31/25.