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Paintings from 20 years ago and newer.

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Tentative

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a preview image of Sea Breezes

2009, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches


A woman drifts away from an off image scene of revelry or ritual, allowing the crumpled roses to fall unwanted from her twisting hands. She looks on with a feeling of abandon or rejection; mixed with a sense of curiosity and wonder. .



Sea Breezes

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2009, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches


A curtain lifts to reveal a moonlit seashore imbedded with pyramidic lantern-growths that bathe the shore in a warm yellow light. The cool full moon awaits on the distant horizon, soon to sink into the blackness that is the deep ocean..



Ceremony of the Exiles

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2009, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches


A night scene where all present linger in a daze, unaware of the miracles forming all and around them. A series of curved signs rooted in various elephant bones: lantern/hourglass, winged torch, the world, wheel of fortune all congregate along a stone pathway. Everyone is trapped in their own personal hypnosis, asleep. When daylight breaks upon this scene all is removed, but for now here the people will complete their ceremony..



The Pilot Light

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2009, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches


A basement room in the dark, with a cascading light issuing from the stairs, contains a flying flaming torch. A genre of painting that presents rooms and interiors showing extraordinary happenings. Within the bleakness here there exists hope and illumination, a flame to light the way through our subconscious maze....



The Foretelling of the Comet

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a preview image of the painting Foretelling of the Comet

2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches


A re-rendition, if you will, of an older work (below) "The Bouquet."


The figure has been made female, and the image staked out onto a desolate moonlit landscape, offering no signs of assistance. The rose-garden world of the idea-germinating woman has been torn away from its moorings, left to flutter in the wind. The glowing horizon may indicate a new morning, new daybreak arriving that will be our salvation once the comets have passed..



Moon Dial Labyrinth

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a preview image of the painting Moondial Labyrinth

2008, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches


A painting of 13 cells depicting a journey through and around a wooded area. The center cell depicts the subject of the work; the 'moon dial.' Its light casts an eerie glow throughout the pathways, lighting the way for the journey. Animals and people flit in and around the cells, in a state of becoming.


At the center the moon dial sits in passive observance of our efforts, ready to impart its subconscious message to all who can hear..



Dreamers to Makers

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a preview image of the painting Dreamers to Makers

2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches


Similar in some ways to "The 11th Hour" below, this painting again visits a ruinous landscape in the dark of night, this time with four shafts of light descending down over what was once perhaps a stone barrier. A time out of place with ours, who is to say who are the 'dreamers' ...or the makers, them or us?.



The 11th Hour

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a preview image of the painting The 11th Hour

2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches


The beginning of my foray into putting to canvas a backlog of images dating to the late 1980s...

The bulk of my work involves a time... and a place. Ruins spread over a stagnant pond, perhaps having been that way for aeons. Above the ruins hover four magical crystals, lighting the way for the wayward traveller. This is the hour of peace and redemption... the 11th hour..



The Bouquet

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a preview image of the painting The Bouquet

2003, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 inches


A purple and blue diamond-checkered human figure, with a fireball for a head, and flames coming off the fingers of his left hand, stands before a wall made up of red roses and green foliage. The figure has one arm crossed over (formerly titled: "Annihilating Angel.") It is the hermaphroditic emblem of the kinetic principle of the psyche: an unstoppable force of continual inspiration, what Dalì referred to as "one hundred million delights.".



Lugubriousness

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a preview image of the painting Lugubriousness

1988, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches


This painting involves an intimate scene where there are several cells of images in odd shapes set within a red velvet drapery. In the central image a face is constructed from seven shapes in the form of a cross. The other images depict fire, a snake, a bird, the ocean, and a kitten. Underneath, the fabric parts, to reveal a steady rain filtering down. All the panels are illusions, and behind the fabric is nothing more than a gentle rain. "Lugubrious" is the state of mind used by Lautremont to describe his character Maldoror in his 19th century novel "Le Chant du Maldoror." It generally refers to a lazy, depressed state of mind, mingled with a multitude of distractions.

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Older Works

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Allegory, myth, love and magic:

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Lianda

oil on canvas
1988
60 x 36 inches

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Allegiance

oil on canvas
2002
37 x 30 inches

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Dragon Fight

acrylic on board
1991
18 x 12 inches

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Anemone Moon

oil on canvas
1988
36 x 24 inches

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Hermes...

oil on canvas
1988
63 x 30 inches

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Beautiful Language

graphite on paper
1986
29 x 22 inches

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To be One of the Five

oil on canvas
2003
33 x 27 inches

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Black Fire

oil on canvas
1988
40 x 30 inches

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untitled

oil on canvas
1995
40 x 30 inches

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Shields

oil on paper
1985
27 x 20 inches

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India Room

oil on paper
1986
20 x 28 inches

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Goodnight

drawing
1984
8 x 12 inches

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Goodnight (study)

gouache on paper
1984
15 x 28 inches

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Goodnight

oil on canvas
1984
48 x 60 inches

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Stars in My Eyes

oil on canvas
1998
20 x 40 inches

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Soulmates

oil on canvas
1989
40 x 26 inches

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Angel

oil on canvas
1994
40 x 26 inches

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The Visitation

oil on canvas
2002
45 x 25 inches

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Time

oil on panel
1984
24 x 21 inches

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Traffic Light

oil on canvas
1988
16 x 12 inches

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Chicken Little

oil on canvas
1988
16 x 12 inches.

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A Light Ritual

graphite on paper
1987
24 x 18 inches

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Homeopathics

mixed media
1986
22 x 24 inches



The Four Elements, Man and Woman

(all from 1992, 23 x 17 inches each):.

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Fire

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Water

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Earth

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Air



Shaped surfaces:

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Aquaceous Pangaea

oil on shaped canvas
2001
51 x 68 inches

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Fantasmagoria

oil on shaped canvas
1996
67 x 45 inches

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Flotsam and Jetsam

oil on shaped canvas
2002
60 x 40 inches

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Bewitched Woman

mixed media
1987
48 x 25 inches

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Ophelia

oil on oval shaped canvas
1996
60 x 80 inches

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Sea Breezes

oil on oval shaped canvas
1988
43 x 35 inches

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The Starmaker

oil on canvas
1992
44 x 56 inches

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The Fountain of Youth

oil on canvas
1988
38 x 36 inches

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Hermaphrodites

oil on canvas
1989
48 x 28 inches

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A Moog Hockey Table

oil on canvas
1985
48 x 84 inches

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Video Menace

oil on assembled panels, chair legs
1984
30 x 72 inches

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Mandarin Hands

oil on found panel
1984
24 x 30 inches



Early works:.

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Day Bees/Night Bees

oil on canvas
1982
16 x 16 inches

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Flo and Eddie at the Bowling Alley

oil on paper
1982
24 x 36 inches

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The Magic Room

oil on paper
1982
24 x 36 inches

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Top

oil on paper
1982
22 x 34 inches



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