Some Abstracts
Chunky
No title on these, they are 9″ x 12″, oil on panel. I do a few when I’m stuck.
Though they don’t seem to have a”subject”, they feel very much like my “representational” paintings.
June 10, 2008
June 6, 2008
Strawberries
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Strawberries Oil on Canvas 12″ x 12″ 2008
May 22, 2008
Across to Texada
The Point Oil on Canvas 12″ x 12″ 2008
May 21, 2008
Bayou
May 14, 2008
Blood and Plastic
May 9, 2008
Another Island
May 7, 2008
Rock Paper Water
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“View East” Oil on Canvas 12″ x 12″ 2008
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Well this is about as scenic as my work has been in decades. Quick islandscapes that I have been cranking out as a practice when I need to just look and get the paint flowing. Hope they don’t risk becoming “potboilers” as my old friend Terry St. John used to call his more marketable canvases.
May 4, 2008
Intransigence
“INPUT” OIL ON CANVAS 16″ X 16″ 2008
The place in which I live doesn’t so much deliver content for my work, rather the place and it’s “content” seeps in. The people, the environment are a finely tuned and sensitive system that digs it’s heels in and resists change. I was just doing some dumb painting studies of rocks, trying to simplify things as much as possible - But in looking at the work and discussing it with visitors I sense this new series of paintings of rocks is about the subtle and unseen shifts that occur in people, institutions and place as a result of this intransigence. Resistance is often a symptom of the change being in fact much more radical and deep than it appears. Putting fuel into and providing an exhaust pipe for an inert object seems a futile endeavor….. yet something went into forming that rock, and it will eventually trasnsform into some other solid, gas or liquid.
“OUTPUT” OIL ON CANVAS 16″ X 16″ 2008
April 24, 2008
Failed Rock
Failed Rock Oil on Canvas 28″ x 28″ 2008
I liked the contrast of defined and undefined in this painting,
some aspect of solidity contrasting with air and light.
An “organic” rock with as much fluid as solid.
March 18, 2008
Perpetual Motion
February 25, 2008
Well Well
Advanced Carpentry 56″ x 46″
Oil on Canvas 2008
It has been a while since I have posted. It’s not that I don’t have new work. Just trying some new things and haven’t wanted to put more images up. This one is from last month, every time I think I’m going to try and make the spaces in the paintings more complex, they defy me by not working. Eventually it gets pared down to something more basic. The paint seems to be winning out over my determination on deciding what stays and what goes. I guess I’ve always been perplexed by situations and styles that are overdetermined, all the while admiring them and wishing I could map out the steps and process and follow the instructions. My work likes to taunt me with that ever present spontaneity that I sneer at in myself.
December 29, 2007
Restoration
Restoration Oil on Canvas 48″ x 48″
Rub a dub dub, 3 tubs in a tub. Waiting for the water’s to rise, for the water to calm down, for it to heat up or cool down. This painting from a current series I am working on is driven by some observations of bizarre hydroponic re-inventions of vessels, and totems to the human driven evolution of form and substance.
August 12, 2007
New work at “The Hall”
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New Paintings, Summer 2007
Helena and me
June 13, 2007
Parsifal
May 24, 2007
Paintstick
Raft of the Medusa
Raft of The Medusa Oil on Canvas 28″ x 28″ 2007
Boat Crowded with Provisions. This is in the collection of Persimmon Blackridge, an artist whom I admire greatly and with whose work I feel a lot of affinity.
May 16, 2007
Special Attraction
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Oil on Canvas 18″ x 18″ 2007
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Magnetism: an invisible force that exerts itself on the physical.
( Particularly valuable for collecting detritus, as well as attracting donations, patrons, victims and aligning reality with our illusionary order….)
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February 24, 2007
Magnet
Magnet Oil on Canvas 48″ x 48″ 2007
Two Words - More Metal.
February 6, 2007
The Raw & The Cooked
Oil on Canvas 48″ x 48″ 2007
A bigger variation on a painting from last year, “Hoodoos” - Rereading Freud’s “Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought” from Totem and Taboo. “…the relationship between magic (paranormal), superstition and taboo, (and) the practices of animistic systems are cree behind which lies instinctual repression.”
Tank Campaign - After
Oil on Canvas 52″ x 42″ 2007
This is the finished version, after the battle so to speak. “You win a while, and then it’s done, your little winning streak…”
February 4, 2007
Tank Campaign - Before
Oil on Canvas 52″ x 42″ 2007
This tank campaign is in progress. It will end up way different a few days down the road.
January 31, 2007
Patrol Boat
Patrol Boat Oil on Canvas 36″ x 48″ 2007
Journeys upriver are a thematic story throughout my life, all lives. The Mekong, the Amazon, Lewis and Clark…. A psychological construct otherwise known as Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”. This particular version of “Apocalypse Now” was inspired by the Civil War ironclads.
January 18, 2007
Landing Party
Landing Party Oil on Canvas 36″ x 42″ 2007
All that’s left to harvest may be a stack of donuts. But if you keep your guns at the ready and keep the lotus blossom flying it will make a good photo op for the tourists…
November 28, 2006
Person, Place or Thing?
November 12, 2006
Improved Version
