feb 28, 2009

i'm mad for trees

don't tell me it's been 5 days since last post

acrylic/mixed media on panel

feb 23, 2009

pentimenti

lots of layers, history

scraping back

laying on again.

acrylic on panel

feb 22, 2009

only this part of the tree remained from

a whole forest of them - don't know why.

but am drawn to the strangeness of these

leaning gnarled remnants of trees.

acrylic on panel sold

feb 19, 2009

similar to the other but different

using the knife a lot

move between warm and cool colors

back and forth

feeling the need for something abstract next

acrylic on panel

feb 18, 2009

life takes over - no posts for a week

wanting to do a series of lotuses

same image, size 

messing with it in subtle different ways.

"love it til you don't"

in this case, loving the lotus still.

acrylic on panel sold

feb. 12, 2009

the lotus

keep coming back to this image

open, receptive, beckoning.

accepted into an artist residency

in the kapadokya region of turkey for sept

dry, lunar-like, strange landscape.

what images to come ~

acrylic, mixed media on panel sold

feb 9, 2009

this was done as a companion to 

2 earlier paintings (1/19, 2/4)

someone is interested in - 

sometimes the inspiration comes from

others response - love that co-creating thing.

acrylic on panel sold

feb 8, 2009

i like my images to evoke a sense of place

but never to give themselves away.

curiosity and imagination grab hold

more interesting to me than any defined place.

acrylic/mixed media on panel     sold

feb 5, 2009

reworked this from an earlier version

transfer of dandelion image,

painted, obscured somewhat.

oil, beeswax, resin pigment on panel sold

feb. 4, 2009

this started with a leafy image

but it didn't want to stay

it's buried in there somewhere.

acrylic on panel sold

feb. 2, 2009

moving between the full abstract painting

and the familiar imagery of natural forms

they are not mutually exclusive

sometimes a defined shape or image will 

call to be included, sometimes not.

acrylic on panel