Paintings in Process
Images of a few recent Paintings in Process.
For complete catalog of recent paintings go to Recent Paintings.
Images of a few recent Paintings in Process.
For complete catalog of recent paintings go to Recent Paintings.
"Amidst a Falling World" (2020 No.3, state 16) oil on canvas 66¼x57¼ inches {"Should the whole frame of nature around him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." - Horace (65-8BC), "Odes", book 3, no.4, I.52)} Painting begun on April 30, 2020 |
"Inertia to Movement" (2019 No.6)
oil on canvas 64.5x64.75 inches {"Emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light, or from inertia to movement, without emotion." -Carl G. Jung (1875-1961), "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious", 1955, translation R.F.C Hull} Painting begun on December 5, 2019 |
"Gunfire Across My Consciousness"
(2019 No.5) oil on canvas 48.5x32.5 inches {"My mind is just like a spin-dryer at full speed; my thoughts fly around my skull... Images gunfire across my consciousness... I jump in awe at the soul-filled bounty of my mind's expanse." -Christopher Nolan, Irish Writer on his reasons for writing "The Eye of the Clock", in November 8, 1987 "Observer"} Painting begun on September 6, 2019 |
"Something Else Entirely" (2019 No.4) oil on canvas 38.5x62.5 inches {"And you’d spend years trying to decipher the sentence, until finally you’d understand it. But after a while you’d realize you got it wrong, and the sentence meant something else entirely." - Tadeusz Dąbrowski, from the poem "Sentence"} Painting begun on July 18, 2019 |

"How's It Gonna End?" (2019 No.2)
oil on canvas
60x33 inches
{"And I want to know the same thing everyone wants to know, how's it going to end? Drag your wagon and your plow over the bones of the dead out among the roses and the weeds. You can never go back, and the answer is no, and wishing for it only makes it bleed." -Tom Waits, song lyric}
Painting begun on February 20, 2019
"The Doctrine of Liberty" (2019 No.1)
oil on canvas 67x59.5 inches {"I believe there is a golden thread which alone gives meaning to the political history of the West, from Marathon to Alamein, from Solon to Winston Churchill and after. This I chose to call the doctrine of liberty under the law." -Anthony Sampson, "The Changing Anatomy of Britain", 1982} Painting begun on January 17, 2019 |
"Chaos, Stillness & Prayer" (2018 No.9) oil on canvas 54x36 inches {"Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm.... an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction." -Saul Bellow, Writers at Work: Third Series, 1967} Painting begun on October 18, 2018 |
"Burnt Norton" (2018 No.8)
oil on canvas 66.5x70.5 inches {"What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility; Only in a world of speculation what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present." -T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton"} Painting begun on September 9, 2018 |
"The Intervening Tick" (2018 No.6)
oil on canvas 49x33 inches {"Is that where wise men want us to live; in that intervening tick, the tiny slot that occurs after you have spent hours searching downtown for that new club and just before you give up and head back home?" - Billy Collins, "The Present" (2017)} Painting begun on July 3, 2018 |
"Chocorua" (2018 No.5)
oil on canvas 40x64 inches {"A substitute for all the gods, This self, not that gold self aloft, Alone, one's shadow magnified, Lord of the body, looking down, As now and called most high, The shadow of Chocorua" - Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar"} Painting begun on June 12, 2018 |