Paints landscapes and portraits
Featured on Artist’s Showcase, Spring 2023. Completed on New Years Day of 2021, the same scene as Focus On The Light, below, but with brighter colors and gentle rippling waves flowing forward in the lower right corner to usher in a better 2021.
Focus on the Light
This version represents a weary world’s struggle to keep the focus on the light coming through the dark clouds of 2020.
From PEACE IS EVERY STEP, by Thich Nhat Hanh
If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we won’t have to talk about it at all. When we know how to be peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness. Artistic expression will take place in one way or another, but being is essential. So we must go back to ourselves, and when we have joy and peace in ourselves, our creations of art will be quite natural, and they will serve the world in a positive way.
Sisters on Tybee
Original 2017 Photograph
March Winds “March wind is a jolly fellow; He likes to joke and play. He turns umbrellas inside out, And blows men’s hats away. He calls the pussy willows And whispers in each ear, Wake up you lazy little seeds, Don’t you know that spring is here?” ~Anonymous
Returning to Thunderbolt, 2020
Won honorable mention in J. Maine Gallery’s Annual H20 contest. After you click on the link above, enjoy some fabulous work as you scroll down to this painting and Into the Greater light on the right side.
Into the Brighter Light, January 2021
Won honorable mention at the J. Mane Gallery’s H20 contest. Finished on January 1, 2021, as a lighter version of the darker one below. The gentle ripples in the lower right corner usher in a brighter light for 2021.
Focus on the Light, November 2020
Earlier version symbolizes a weary world’s struggle to keep the focus on the light coming through the dark clouds of 2020.
“The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man, and man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.”
Alan Paton
Note: The brass sculpture I created when I was twenty represents all forms of repression: negative emotions holding an individual back; one person holding another back; and racism, hatred, and indifference holding a group back.