Chandeliers
Light is important to my painting and this preoccupation can direct both the making and the imagery. The candle chandelier is a motif frequently featured in my watercolor/drawings and acrylic paintings. Often, paintings explore the candle chandelier in a land or sea environment making for an inside/outside composition. Co-existing multiple points of view are accomplished either through multiple layers of vellum paper for the watercolor work or painterly layers for canvas/panels. While the chandelier is the featured imagery in these paintings, the subject is elliptical: inside/outside; stillness/motion; edge/reflection; water/air; layers/surface; internal/external.
Flashlight, acrylic on paper, 20″x18 ½″ 2023
Honeymoon Light 1, watercolor/graphite on vellum (3 layers handsewn at the top), 11″x8 ½″ 2021
Honeymoon Light 2, watercolor/graphite on vellum (3 layers handsewn at the top), 11″x8 ½″ 2021
Dutch NYC: from one place to another, acrylic on canvas, 36″x36″ 2021
Dutch NYC: Van Dance Boat, acrylic on canvas, 36″x36″ 2018
High Speed Double Dutch, acrylic on canvas, 12″x9″ 2018
Dutch NYC: Like the sea itself, acrylic on canvas, 36″x36″ 2016
Still, still (triptych)
Still, still (left), acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2015
Still, still (center), acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2015
Still, still (right), acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2015
Chandelier in Leaf, acrylic & canvas on canvas, 40½″x34½″ 2015
Raining In, mixed on paper, 30″x22″ 2016
Cherry Ghost, acrylic on canvas, 12″x8″ 2012
Milky Way Home, acrylic on canvas, 15″x15″ 2011
Oh, Siren, acrylic on paper, 26″x20″ 2010
A Bursting (triptych)
A Bursting (Stay), acrylic on canvas, 24″x20″ 2009
A Bursting, acrylic on canvas, 24″x20″ 2009
A Bursting (Go), acrylic on canvas, 24″x20″ 2009
Waltz, acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2010
Oh, Siren #2, acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2010
Landscape Awaiting Chandelier, acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2010
Chandelier Awaiting Landscape #2, acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2010
Chandelier Awaiting Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 8″x8″ 2010
Racing To, acrylic on canvas, 97″x63″ 2008