Oil, Wax and Graphite on Cradled Birch Panel, 33 × 33 inches, 2025
Playing with loopy shapes, this painting tends toward the whimsical. Hand drawn and screen-printed patterns of lines in multiple layers create opportunities for editing with layers of color. The result is a bright, fun, and nuanced color field.
Oil, Graphite on Cradled Birch Panel, 33 × 33 inches, 2025
Oil on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2024
This soft painting has many subtle layers. It is more painterly and less print oriented than the others in the series. The brush work and underpainting are visible and allude to the process of how the painting was created.
Oil on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2024
The screen-printed images and painted areas blend seamlessly together in this continuation of the shapes in the "Mind Roads" series. The open, graphic look is a result of my practice making monoprints. Once again, this painting proves that painting influences printmaking, that influences painting, that influences printmaking.
Oil on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2024
The shapes in this painting very closely mimic the shapes in "Mind Roads," except on a smaller format and brighter palette. The multiple layers of screen printed, and hand painted line patterns create both complexity and subtlety. White was the last layer, the unifying color.
Oil, Wax, Graphite on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2023
Screen printed and painted in oil paints with cold wax and graphite. The printing adds structure, while the painting remembers my hand. The composition forms an active mosaic of urbanism including vehicle imagery, billboards, and people on the sidewalk.
Oil, Wax, Graphite on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2023
A return to the patterns made with letters in this painting, combines both textual and asemic writing. This version is more whimsical with a childlike simplicity and color palette that belies the message of, “no self - no other.”
Oil, Wax, Graphite on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2023, SOLD
Screen printed and painted in oil paints with cold wax and Galkyd medium. The printing adds structure, while the painting remembers my hand.
Oil, Wax, Graphite on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2023
This playful piece employes nursery-like colors and fun animal shapes among the simple letters, E and O.
Oil, Wax, Graphite on Birch Panel, 33 x 33 inches, 2023, SOLD
The text used for this painting is adapted from Master Hongzhi’s Practice Instructions, circa 1150 CE. I found them beautifully poetic. This is a simple word painting that is both literal and uses the shape of alphabet to organize the space on the flat plane.
Oil on Birch Panel, 35 x 35 inches, 2023 SOLD
Swirling images float around an axis that is offset below center. The brown, “dragons,” were created by masking the screen and printing only a selected shape. When making a painting of this style, I keep the surface free of brush strokes so that the viewer cannot differentiate between what is painted and what is printed.
Oil on Panel, 35 x 27 inches, 2022
One of a series of four, this painting was made by screen printing a pattern and then painting into it. The two screens used were chosen from the five screens that made up the print, “Color Study - Apocalyptic Wallpaper.” The screens were each printed twice, often randomly, in a four - square grid. The resulting composition was quite chaotic. The color choices made when painting into the composition create the balance you see.
Oil on Panel, 35 x 27 inches, 2022
One of a series of four, this painting was made by screen printing a pattern and then painting into it. The two screens used were chosen from the five screens that made up the print, “Color Study - Apocalyptic Wallpaper.” The screens were each printed twice, often randomly, in a four - square grid. The resulting composition was quite chaotic. The color choices made when painting into the composition create the balance you see.
Oil on Arches 300 Paper, 23 x 29 inches framed, 2021
I began by screen printing oil paints mixed with cold wax. After establishing the pattern, I worked into the composition with oils and graphite.
Oil on Arches 300 Paper, 23 x 29 inches framed, 2021
I began by screen printing oil paints mixed with cold wax. After establishing the pattern, I worked into the composition with oils and graphite.
Oil on Board, 24 x 20 inches, 2022 SOLD
“Gesture” is an Abstract Expressionistic painting, pure and simple. It explores the push and pull of color, line and form through the process of making them appear on the canvas and manipulating them until they are right with themselves. The process always begins with a gesture - mark making. Mark making is as primordial as petroglyphs.
Oil on Canvas, 28 x 31.5 x 2.5 inches, Two Very Similar Paintings, 2020
In 1977, I was a third-year painting and printmaking major at VCU. I made four, 72x72” canvases in the abstract expressionist style. I proudly carried one into my modern painting class and the instructor dismissed it as, “apocalyptic wallpaper.” This was a reference to critic Harold Rosenberg who coined the term as a way to critique expressionism that lacked emotional and intellectual rigor. Last year I found the old canvas rolled up in the rafters. I cut two swatches, sanded, re-stretched and repainted. “Apocalyptic wallpaper” no longer carries the weight.
