In progress:
Strangers in a Strange land series. I will post as pieces are completed. All are mixed-media on Arches paper.
He was now an Exile. He had nothing left to lose, so he offered his heart to the sea...
Now she is an orphan- everything is taken from her- family, friends and country. Yet the blind powers-that-be cannot take away her soul.
The Immigrant. He longed for his Homeland, the dream of his Promised Land, and found himself a Stranger in a Strange Land.
Presented here are the final versions of The Mystery Series.
All work- mixed media/Arches paper
Mystery of Deliverance
Arches Paper work/ Mixed -media 2025
Wading Through the Reflections of Surface Society
Rescue and Other works - All pieces mixed media on Arches paper.
I began these pieces in 2023-24 but never completed them for one reason or other. When I unpacked them from the portfolio upon moving to D.C. - I felt compelled to finish them.
Transurfing Eternity- or, What Time isn’t It?
The Message - Because He was There to Perceive it
Ceremony: What we are & What we shall be.
These two pieces were roughly sketched out and some color application begun in 2023. I never finished them, So, after reconsidering them this week I decided to complete them.
Explanations Unmasked or Letting go of Justifications
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2025 Works from my studio in Washington D.C.
- A Page Has Turned - New works on Paper
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 - A very large work on paper (approx 5x7ft.).
a size reference pic.
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)
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.
(mixed media/paper/2023/inspired by Nick Cave's song "Lavender Fields").
2023 (mixed media on paper)
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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....
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.
Ophelia remembered.
“Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.”
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