Gallery
Acrylics and plaster on panel
50.5” x 25.5”
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. [b]So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1: 3-5
Acrylic on Plexiglas
24.5” x 24”
Sold
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
-David K. Shipler
Acrylic on plate glass
20.5” x 25”
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first”
Ernestine Ulmer
Mosaic
25.5” x 23.5”
“Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied. “
Alexander The Great
The inspiration of this work was from a pilgrimage. In the spring of 2018, I went to northern Spain and walked 300 km of the Camino de Santiago. One of the towns along the way was Najera. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Navarre in the 11th and 12th centuries. In the Monasterio Santa Maria de la Real there is a Royal Pantheon housing the burial place of the many illustrious kngs and queens and knights of Navarre. One of the tombs in the crypt was that of Dona Blanca de Castile y Navarre ca 1156. There are beautiful statues on the sarcophagi that depict the deceased Dona Blanca in the full bloom of life. I noticed how many of them were so young. It was thought provoking.
Genesis 3: 22-24:
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Acrylics and epoxy on Canvas
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“Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all all, to stand firm…”
6 Ephesians 13
Plaster Fibre and Arcylics
Inspired by Euripides, The Trojan Women:
ANDROMACHE:
Bitter are these regrets, unhappy mother, bitter these woes to bear; our city ruined, and sorrow evermore to sorrow added, through the will of angry heaven, since the day that son' of thine escaped his doom, he that for a bride accursed brought destruction on the Trojan citadel. There lie the gory corpses of the slain by the shrine of Pallas for vultures to carry off; and Troy is come to slavery's yoke.
HECUBA:
O my country, O unhappy land, I weep for thee now left behind; now dost thou behold thy piteous end; and thee, my house, I weep, wherein I suffered travail. O my children! reft of her city as your mother is, she now is losing you. Oh, what mourning and what sorrow! oh, what endless streams of tears in our houses! The dead alone forget their griefs and never shed a tear.
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”
Carl Jung
Acrylics and plaster on panel
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29”x49” framed
Acrylic and plaster fabric
3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.’ ”
4 Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Mathew 3: 1-4
Plaster fabric, clay and Acrylics
Each 25 ”x 48.5”
Framed
Pair
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.”
Ingrid Betancourt
I imagine this man and woman, stranded in a refugee camp somewhere, wondering where they will go from their past to their future.
Acrylics and plaster on panel
50” x 25.5” framed
The inspiration for this piece was a tree, a forest, and a fairy tale.
The street near my house has a number of Sycamore trees. They are very handsome trees. They are distinguished from other trees by their mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses, leaving the surface mottled and gray, greenish-white and brown.
In my imagination, I could see Le Petite Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) lost in a forrest of such trees, just as she first encounters the wolf. According to Wipipedia “The story had as its subject an "attractive, well-bred young lady", a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother's house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest. Then he proceeded to lay a trap for Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood ends up being asked to climb into the bed before being eaten by the wolf, where the story ends. The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending.” According to Charles Perrault, who first wrote the story”
“From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner. I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition – neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!”
Steel, Silicone and Acrylics on Panel
36” x 48”