Available Paintings

These oil paintings depict a forward movement of strength as seen in the figurative leg is central to each painting with the action of contemplation happening at the knee joint--a symbolic location; a physical point of heavy burden.

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Many of my undergraduate paintings focused on still life primarily because I studied with the late painter Lennart Anderson. Since 2020, I began to imagine images "swept underneath" the table as being equally important to what sits upon it.​​​

This series is directly related to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

These paintings conceptualize the opposition of the need to quarantine vs. the need for community.  Many of these paintings use expansive water to symbolize the unknown while the suspended figures hold together amongst American flags and action at distant horizons.

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I love the myth of Persephone, the partner and the daughter, who lives between two worlds--half the year in the underworld with Hades, and then returning to her mother goddess Demeter whose happiness brings forth the plentiful seasons.  My Persephone is crawling upward, out of the underworld to the green earth, and her mother. 

This series allows me to spin traditional landscape painting.​​​​

This series recognizes the major disruption in America--political polarization has given rise to confusion and anxiety in our culture overall.  The tension is palpable. 

Related to one of my drawing series, these paintings reveal a dream world from the artists insomnia--nightly thoughts and remembered dream states. 

This series of paintings is based around 2 femaile figures--the fall and the searcher.  The figures are painted in different environments becoming fireflies, seeds, cocktails and armadas.