Paintings in Process
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

"Your Decisions Matter" (2020 No.2)
oil on canvas
52x55½ inches
{"It's essential that you believe as if your decisions matter... reality isn't important; what's important is your belief..."
​- Ted Chiang, "Exhalation", 2019}


Painting begun on February 29, 2020


"Clever Liars" (2020 No.1)
oil on canvas
56½x45¼ inches
{"Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't!"
​- anonymous}

Painting begun on February 22, 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}
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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"}
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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"}
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Painting begun on July 18, 2019

​"Doublethink" (2019 No.3)
oil on canvas
68x58 inches
{"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
​-George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty Four" (1949)}
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Painting begun on March 19, 2019
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"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}
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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}
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Painting begun on January 17, 2019
"Seriously?" (2018 No.10)
oil on canvas
49.8x62.5 inches
{"All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously." - Hermann Hesse, "Reflections" 1974}
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Painting begun on November 23, 2018​​


​"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}
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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"}
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Painting begun on September 9, 2018​​
"Along for the Ride" (2018 No.7)
​oil on canvas
65x53 inches
{"Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong... and just go along for the ride."
​- Philip Roth, "American Pastoral"}
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Painting begun on July 22, 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
"Adjective" (2018 No.4)
oil on canvas
62x57 inches
​{"As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."
- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson"}

Painting begun on June 3, 2018
"Weoman" (2018 No.3)
oil on canvas
43x48 inches
{"I could not get a rhyme for Roman,
​And was obliged to call it Weoman."
​-Marjorie Fleming, "Sonnet"}

Painting begun on May 18, 2018
Catch-22 (2018 No.2)
oil on canvas
41x48 inches
{"If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22", (1961)}

Painting begun on April 28, 2018
Cave (2018 No.1, state 5)
oil on canvas
68x53 inches
​{"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."
​- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs her Hair" (1920)}

Painting begun on April 25, 2018
​​"2017 No.14"
oil on canvas
63x63 inches

Painting begun on December 5, 2017
​​"2017 No.13"
oil on canvas
63x71 inches

Painting begun on September 27, 2017
"2017 No.10"
oil on canvas
50x63 inches

Painting begun on June 11, 2017
"2017 No.2"
oil on canvas
​74x55 inches

Painting begun on January 15, 2017
​​2016 No. 18
oil on canvas
76x56 inches

Painting begun on October 30, 2016