“Cradle Will Rock”

Oil Painting
5×7″ beveled panel

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“Evolution”

Oil Painting
6×9″ beveled panel

I started doing paintings of glass spheres and beach stones in the mid-’90s and haven’t stopped. I still find these elements completely absorbing and elusive, paying close attention to which objects to use and how to arrange them. One painting leads to the next and to the next in a continuous stream, as I spontaneously try to capture the essence, in a brushstroke or color, of these things that I love.

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“Inside”

Oil Painting
3.75×3.75″ beveled panel

Reflected inside the glass is the beach stone. This small painting is actually another version of a larger work – “Moonlit” – from a few posts ago.

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“Moonlit”

Oil Painting
10×8″ bevel-edged panel

“Moonlit” is the latest in my ever-growing Meditations series of paintings and silverpoint drawings of natural elements with glass spheres. See the others here and on my website.

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“Adrift”

Oil Painting
9.5×12.5″ panel

This is a slightly larger work in my Meditations series. I’m not sure what type of elegant seedpods these are, but they worked well as tiny canoes being adrift in this strange landscape. I really like the cool dry quality of the colors.

I typically “float” these paintings on a frame that I design and build as an integral part of the work. Please email me if you are interested in purchasing this painting with custom frame.

“Venturing Out”

Oil Painting
8×10″ panel

The latest painting in my Meditations series – the beauty of nature’s objects juxtaposed with an object of manufactured perfection; beach stones and glass sphere. There’s something right or comforting to me to have these pairings. The clear glass is an inside/outside presence and has come to represent an observer. Me; maybe you. I’m still smitten with the stones and the fantastic designs and textures of Nature…

See many others posted over the months here, or visit my website to see the paintings and silverpoints in this series.

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“A Walk in the Park”

Oil Painting
6×8″ canvas mounted

There is so much pink and lavender in all that green.

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“Stuck”

oil painting
5×10″ panel

Scattered throughout my house and studio are natural treasures: gorgeous seashells, beautiful animal skulls, woodcarvings from Africa and New Zealand, seedpods, a huge array of beach stones, bamboo and cinnamon. Many of these have appeared in the paintings and silverpoints on The Art Fly and many more wait in the wings…

These compositions, that are part of my Meditations series, usually come together over a few days as I gradually become aware of their presence, shifting and switching elements around until it feels right. These banded stones won out this time, and spoke in a way that seemed to say: we’re stuck. Of course, I could be projecting.

For each of the paintings in this series I typically create a “floating” frame (not shown here because not built yet). But, please email if you are interested in this piece.

“Spring”

Oil Painting
12×6″ beveled-edge panel

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“Curious”

Oil Painting
8×10″ panel

This is one of the newest paintings in my Meditations series of work with natural objects and glass spheres. I’ve never quite found the words to describe what this is about – and I’ve been creating these works since the mid-’90s…

Scattered throughout my studio are collections of beach stones, unusual seedpods, seashells and many other natural elements. I have a love of glass spheres, clear ones especially, and beautiful tools. They are elegant sculptures to me. These things aren’t just sitting there unseen. I’m aware of their presence and I pick them up, look at them and sometimes move them to a new place to later see them anew. So, naturally, I’m draw to them when the light shines into a glass sphere, or a feather or beach stone can stop me in my tracks as I’m walking through my studio. Simply profound.

So there you have another attempt to describe my ever-evolving Meditations series.

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