Thursday, March 27, 2025

Spring 2025

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

The Discovery of The Urflanzen*


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





Wednesday, March 19, 2025

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.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

March on, March on - Full Moon Madness

 


Energy Release

(mixed media/ Arches paper)

Monday, March 10, 2025

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 .

Saturday, March 1, 2025

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.






Monday, February 10, 2025

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


Saturday, February 8, 2025

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...



Sunday, February 2, 2025

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



Friday, January 31, 2025

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.








Saturday, January 18, 2025

A A Backwards Glance Reconsidered Anew 2025


Explanations Unmasked or Letting go of Justifications

    &

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

Friday, January 10, 2025

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)

Sunday, February 4, 2024

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."
 
 


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

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)





Wednesday, December 13, 2023

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).




Friday, December 1, 2023

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.).