Saturday, August 10, 2013


“The Laugh

This is a fresco painting of a woman laughing.  The simplicity of the paint belies the range of emotions it conjures. The deep and rough texture of the plaster provides a strict contrast to the subject’s emotion.  This conflict is unsettling. Many ask if the subject laughing or crying?

 

“Pensive

This painting is a copy of a work by unknown artist from Russia. I cannot take credit for the subject or the style.  I was so intrigued by the artist’s ability to subtly convey of the feeling and attitude of this woman that I felt compelled to try to duplicate it. 


“Down the Drain – Southern Hemisphere

This painting represents the rotation of water going down drain in the Southern Hemisphere. The word “water” circulates in a counter clockwise direction.

By The Dozen


 

“By the Dozen”

This mixed media works includes a photograph of me drinking from a milk carton in kindergarten. The first image in the upper left is the original photo and the subsequent images have been modified  in a sequence. The differences in the images are to represent the course of life change from the very simple to the more complex.  And yet with the child in all of us remains although obscured.