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.).

Dispensations of Destiny 2023

                                                          Say Goodbye to all that....

 

Instances of Limitless Potential to Signify - 2023

Instances of Limitless Potential to Signify -

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.

 

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 .

 

2023 Fantasy Landscapes - paintings

 

 Night, those magical woods behind Chateau Roussan (24x30 oil/canvas).

 

Back road from Chateau Roussan to St. Remy village by the pond, canal and woods at night...

(oil/canvas 24x30) .

 

 

 

 

Pompeii Revisited -or - Your life could change in seconds.    (oil/canvas 24x30)

Small works on wood panel & canvas - oils - Landscapes 2023

Field of yellow Colza .- oil/wood panel

 

 Glade at night in back of Chateau Roussan, outside St.Remy. -oil/black canvas

 

 Night, those magical woods behind Chateau Roussan.

 

 

 Loch Sheanta, Isle of Skye, Scotland

 

Iris near the pond.

 

View near York Moors, England   oil/canvas.

Huw's row of trees in England     oil/wood panel

 

 

 

Small works on canvas and wood panel - oils - 2023

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Sleeping man .

Girl with blue hair    oil/wood panel.

Hamlet.   oil/black canvas

Ophelia.    oil/black canvas

 

You placed your hands over my ears    oil/canvas.   

I see a journey in your future... .  oil/canvas     

self-portrait with a message       oil/canvas.

 

 In his most sympathetic and emotive voice he said, "What did you think was going to happen?"

oil/wood panel

 

portraits remémorés d'un passage oublié

 Portraits recalled from a forgotten passage

Small works on Maple-veneer/gouache/oil pastel/encaustic resist/ 2023

 

You asked me where poetry came from and I answered,“Our Souls.”
Then, I remembered the Star from where we last parted and agreed to return, when our angelic journey was finished. Without saying anything more, there was no sadness. So much we understood without words.

 

Memory of an ancient girl

 

 The Secrets of St. Winwaloe - (from the Icon series - My hagiographies ... not theirs.)

The Blue Pajamas  or Remembrance of things past....

 

 Ancient woman .

 

Soul Messenger of the sacred heart

(from the Icon series - My hagiographies ... not theirs)

 

 

Ancient Priestess Prayer .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Woman at one with Nature

 

Magdalene  oil/Maple veneer panel (from the Icon series - My hagiographies ... not theirs.) .