Deluxe

Wunderkammer Deluxe
Oil on Canvas 48" x 48"

Heaven Stack

Stack - Oil on canvas 60" x 52'

Here is an earlier painting posted, with the more recent work on the painting. I continue to work on a piece until I feel the image is arising from the paint rather than a concept I've drawn out and filled in - more satisfying to draw with paint than do a painted drawing. The challenges usually result in a "truer" image.

Green Heaven

  

Oil on Canvas 60" x 52"

This one is "in progress" and will be updated as it gets closer to painter's heaven.

Wunderkammer pre-study

Here is a drawing for the painting in the previous post. I generally work in this way, an idea becomes several drawings in which I play with various compositions and possibilities. Then I paint with the drawings as a rough guide, and in the painting process the final piece comes out quite differently than the original drawings. I'm just not much good at copying my own work.....

Wunderkammer

Oil on Canvas 48" x 48"

I've been fascinated with Wunderkammer "cabinets of curiosities", the tension between encyclopedic knowledge and the wonderment created from collections of the unnamed or cast-off object.


Placing them in "High Places" is reflecting the odd synthesis of this time and place.... the drive to discover "Heaven" and the endless task of sorting our earthly past.

More floating islands

Oil on Canvas 28" x 28"

Indulging in gesture. Everyone who comes into the studio seems drawn to the minimalism of these canvases - I'd prefer they weren't. These will probably be painted over in the future.

Floating Islands

These are 18" x 18" Oil on canvas. More of the piles from last post soon. The color correction on these is off, I'm on the road and using a different computer that doesn't have photoshop loaded, so can't fine tune the editing to better approximate the colors in the originals.