Spring 2025

Pierrot Disheveled

The Discovery of The Urflanzen*

                        Large work on Arches paper - mixed media irregular borders - approx. 60"x38"

 *Based on Goethe's concept of the primordial plant, from which all others have been delivered.

American Portraits

 American Portraits - 2025

I will add works from this series as they are completed. Intended to be a collection of portraits of persons from my memory, and others representing well-known celebrities and still others totally imaginary.

(all pieces are mixed media/Magnani paper 22"x30")

Susan "Sunday" Searce 1966:  At age 16 she was way ahead of her time. Made her own Mod-inspired clothes - and could recite all the lyrics to Bob Dylan's songs, which she knew by heart.

Young Bobby Zimmerman's Epiphany - when he first sensed the answer was 'Blowin' in the wind', or,

Dylan Tangled Up In Blue.

Joni Mitchell - The Blue Muse.

March on, March on - Full Moon Madness

 

Energy Release

(mixed media/ Arches paper)

searching for an honest man

 Diogenes

(oil/Birchwood panel fragments)

Suddenly Everything 2025

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

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

How Green (was) my valley...  .

Sea Dreamer's Sea-Stories .

March Fantasy Works 2025

 Large watercolors/India ink on Arches paper 

A Boy plays with his Cat. What could be simpler ?

The Dance of Triumph: As the world dissolved into distortion, they acquired clarity through self-expression and art.

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

Mystery Series 2020-2025

Presented here are the final versions of The Mystery Series. 

All work- mixed media/Arches paper

Mystery of Deliverance

Mystery of the Unheimlich

Mystery of the Seen and Unseen

Mystery of a Calling

Mystery of the Revealed & Concealed

Mystery of Summoning

Mystery of Clairaudience

Manifestation is Consistency 2025

 Arches Paper work/ Mixed -media 2025

Wading Through the Reflections of Surface Society

   Let it Go ...

Her Quickening

Reflections on the Scientific Method - or - Wisdom of the Puppet Masters

Logic's Drama Unfolded...

Rescue -2025 Work on Paper

 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.

Her Inpouring

Birth of Mercury

Everything she didn't say

Ithaca.

Narcissus rethinks his actions

                                                                  The Birth of Impulse

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

 Birth of Dionysus .

The Message - Because He was There to Perceive it

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.

A A Backwards Glance Reconsidered Anew 2025

Explanations Unmasked or Letting go of Justifications

    &

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

2025 A Page Has Turned...

 2025 Works from my studio in Washington D.C.

 - A Page Has Turned - New works on Paper

He walked fast as though there was somewhere he needed to be, before he realized he was already there.

(mixed media/Magnani paper 2025)

Be Washed By The Rain..

(mixed media/Magnani paper 2025

She found the Pearl of Wisdom in a most unlikely place...

(mixed media/Magnani paper 2025.

Michael de Montaigne’s famous quote “When I play with my cat- who knows whether it is not she who is playing with me?”.

(Mixed media/Arches paper)

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."

 

 

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).

2023 pieces - songs, reflections, and memories

The sailor hat - or - The man with the child in his eyes

(inspired by Kate Bush song)

 "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.).