Trees Stand In Thought And Wonder Why?

Trees Stand In Thought And Wonder Why?

Oil on canvas over wood form, 2011, 14"x 42" x 6"

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This is a curved painting from a beautiful day last winter. The snow was fresh and the sun was setting.

When Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt

When Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt

Oil on curved Birch panel, carved wood, 2011, approx. 14" x 40" x 11"

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This is a piece I just finished up. I am trying to weave a specific but open ended narrative about this guitar player and a young lady on a horse. I think maybe she wandered over from a different piece to hear this guys song.

She Sings Sweetly

She Sings Sweetly

Oil on Birch panel, carved Bass wood, 2011, 12" x 36" x 7"

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This is a painting I am exhibiting in my one person show in April at Paint Creek Center For The Arts in Rochester Mi. There is one is one more thing I need to do to this. I need to carve a little patch of green grass for her to be standing on. Then I think I'm finished.

Duel

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Duel

Oil on Birch, 2010, 14"x 36"x 14"

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Another in my split screen dilemma series. The shooters are facing off when viewed head on but as you move they aren't really aiming at each other. A hare is crouching in the landscape and they are physically aimed at that, but will the bullets travel through the painting? Did the painting conspire to make them shoot at each other? If they fire will the hares and each other all be doomed? Will they be frozen in paint for eternity or will they eventually fire? Its not for me to decide.

Sniper

Sniper

Oil on Birch, 2010, 15"x 60"x 15"

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This is the first piece I made in a new series of paintings. I have tried to set up a dilemma of sorts, with a lot of different outcomes depending on how you view the painting both physically and mentally. First the painting is split in two and curved out toward the viewer, there is an action on either side of this split with a dubious outcome if viewed head on. But a lot of questions can arise from this. Will the painting itself stop the bullet? Did the universe conspire to reach out and interfere? If the painting is laid out flat does this change the bullets course? If viewed from the side you can't see the bullet or the soldier depending on where you're standing and everything is ok. Or is this just a way to pause time, and mentally save a life?

Cumulus Nimbus Rolls By

Cumulus Nimbus Rolls By

Oil on wood, 2010, 8" x 22" x 6"

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This is another in my series, with the split screen. The characters in this drama, an Apache indian and a union soldier, are fighting to the death with only the clouds and landscape as witnesses. An arm and leg are movable so the viewer can change to a certain degree the composition and possible outcome of the conflict.

The Calcified Tears Of A Heartbroken Giant - Chocolate Hills, Philippines

The Calcified Tears Of A Heartbroken Giant - Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Oil and pastel on wood, 40"x 60"

This piece grew out of a previous drawing I did called 'The Heartbroken Giant'. It turns out there is a real place in the Philippines called the Chocolate Hills that had a landscape reminiscent to the one I made for my drawing. After a little research on the interwebs, I was struck and excited by the similarities to the backstory I had made up for my original drawing and the local folklore. The hills individually are referred to as the calcified tears, while the whole area is known as the Chocolate Hills. They are grass covered limestone that turn brown in the dry season, and there are 1,776 of them, a fact I just discovered, and is of course a number of great importance in this country.