Painting as I see it.
The state legislature of North Carolina has shoved a lot of offensive legislation down our throats. Forget jobs and education! Most paintings of the NC landscape show the natural beauty. This painting is not. Named for the toxic NCHB2, I am disgusted.
This is not exactly a self portrait, more of an expression of wondering what’s going on.
For more than a year I have been working with eyes, especially women’s eyes. This painting on panel has a lot of pastels drawn into it. Looking forward, inward, outward and with a nod to what came before.
Drop by Art on Depot this weekend to see my new paintings of clouds. Or if not clouds, gobs of cool colors with dol
lops of white.
Oct. 9, from 5:30 to 8:30 at Frog Level Brewing is the Waynesville Habitat for Humanity Auction. I’ve donated another 
one in this series which are called Dahlia. Our Restore sells these fine quality plywood circles. I’ve used acrylics and black enamel. The circle is 8.5 inches across.
Being inspired by the light in the sky, but working with paint and a 2-d surface with no light bouncing about.
This started as an abstract color field painting. The peony just butted in!
This painting if of a Cereus, an outrageous red bloom. A flower that is about 8 inches across. I may not have captured the light coming through the leaves, but I did show
a human imposition on nature, the grid pattern. This painting is currently on display at Art On Depot. The tangled web was that my website was down last night as Lunar Pages had technical difficulties. We can ignore nature and our environment, but when it doesn’t work, we will be scrambling.
I’m still working on mastering acrylic paints, instead of them mastering me! The eye is from the Eye Wonder series idea, of observing (and wondering what I can do about it?).
What is painting? This is acrylic on canvas, with enamel drips. The Eye Wonder series are on paper, 8″x10″, with enamel drips. The series leaves lots of room for creativity for me, and the format is convenient for all of your framing needs. The questions about the unpredictability of living, and drippy paint, remain. The materials have been changed, to protect who? Canvas, paper, words, eyes, cats, barns, salamanders. Sure as you’re born you’re never gonna see a unicorn, unless an artist makes it.