Personal Reflections on my Early Watercolors
My commitment to working as an artist is rooted in a desire to not only understand the world around me but to understand myself. My early years, spent in a variety of spiritual pursuits, instilled in me a meditative awareness of the deeper meaning found below the surface of life. In the still-life genre I found an artistic practice which allowed me to express this understanding.
My early watercolors were sensual in nature and simple in presentation. My love for the magnificent light of California suffused this early work with a startling brilliance. My love of flowers and an abiding connection to the primal nature of color combined to create large scale, passionately lyrical work. This work was created during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic here in San Francisco, when my continued existence was in doubt. By celebrating this sensual and fragile beauty, I was also acknowledging its impermanence.
I came to see the still-life as a shrine that honored the tangible world. I found it necessary to explore the slippery divide between perception and illusion, which led to the creation of almost magical realist work where space, time and dimension are purely a product of the imagination. I started to use compositional devices such as changing the viewpoint to flatten the surface, altering the depth of field, removing perspective and using pattern to create abstraction. This involved an intoxicating combination of both the organic and the geometric, and revealed compositions of surprising complexity and depth.
As I look back at my work, I see a restless need to explore both my outer and inner worlds and I continue to create paintings that pay tribute to the vivid and mysterious reality that surrounds us.
Watercolor on paper60 x 40 inches2013Catalog ID: 201311Download ⇩
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Watercolor on paper19.75 x 19.75 inches2012Catalog ID: 201223Download ⇩
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Watercolor on paper30 x 22 inches2003Catalog ID: 200316Download ⇩
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Watercolor on paper29.5 x 29.5 inches2007Catalog ID: 200702Download ⇩
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Watercolor on paper29.5X29.5 inches2012Catalog ID: 201223Download ⇩
Watercolor on paper14.5 x 10.5 inches2008Catalog ID: 200849Download ⇩
Watercolor on paper26 x 26 inches2014Catalog ID: 201415Download ⇩
Watercolor on pper44x35 inches2013Catalog ID: 201341Download ⇩
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Watercolor on paper29.5x41 inches1991Catalog ID: 199112Download ⇩
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Ever since creating abstract collages in 2011 as a response to the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactor caused by a massive earthquake, I have been fascinated with the creation of visual abstract languages. I explored color and shape in both the “Space/Time” and “Meditations on the Square” monotype series. In my most recent body of work, utilizing mixed media etched wood panels, I focused on how the world around us offers amazing opportunities for exciting visual abstractions representing a deep link between our own microcosm and the magnificence of the cosmos.
This new work started with visual explorations of that most abstract of arts, Jazz. A commission about synesthesia initiated my attempts to use color and form to approximate what I felt from this radical music. This year I started drawing with colored pencil and graphite on various papers, distilling my earlier explorations into a more cohesive vocabulary. The drawing process was essential to this process due to its immediacy and simplicity. I continue down that path, bringing in collage alongside the drawing, eager to see where this will lead.
Watercolor on paper40x40 inches2021Catalog ID: 202116Download ⇩
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Pastel on paper40x25 inches2021Catalog ID: 202111Download ⇩
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Pastel on Rives BFK30x22 inches2021Catalog ID: 202114Download ⇩
White chalk on black Rives BFK22x30 inches2022Catalog ID: 202209Download ⇩
Pastel on paper with a green gesso29x12 inches2022Catalog ID: 202210Download ⇩
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Pastel on Arches hot press watercolor paper with a oxblood gesso26x40 inches2022Catalog ID: 202213Download ⇩
Sepia chalk on tan Rives BFK22x30 inches2024Catalog ID: 202401Download ⇩
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Colored crayon on tan Stonehenge 22x30 inches2025Catalog ID: 202403Download ⇩
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Graphite and crayon on Rives BFK22x30 inches2024Catalog ID: 202405Download ⇩
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acrylic paint on wood panel44x72 inches2021Catalog ID: 202101aDownload ⇩
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Acrylic paint on plywood panels44x394 inches2021SoldCatalog ID: 202101Download ⇩
Multi panel work using collage and laser etched wood panels60x132 inches2015Catalog ID: 201532Download ⇩
Collaged papers on wood panel. 60x24 inches2015Catalog ID: 201532aDownload ⇩
Laser etched wood panel with charcoal, graphite and white chalk. 60x36 inches2015Catalog ID: 201532bDownload ⇩
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Three panel work using collage and laser etched wood panels60x84 inches2015Catalog ID: 201533Download ⇩
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Collaged paper, acrylic and spray paint on wood panel.60x60 inches2015SoldCatalog ID: 201533bDownload ⇩
Laser etched wood panel with graphite and acrylic paint. Shows a list of couples married in San Francisco in 2004 whos' marriages were annulled by Proposition 860x12 inches2015Catalog ID: 201533cDownload ⇩
Jazz Mural for Word Cafe (first section)
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Jazz Mural for Word A Cafe 5114 3rd St
Google Commission. Bay Area Parks, Point Reyes National Seashore 1962, Golden Gate National Recreation Area 1972
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks panel #1, A map of the Bay Area showing National Parks in green and cities in red.
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks, panel #2, details of buildings, flora and fauna at the two National Parks
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks, panel #3, Redwood at Muir Woods National Monument
Google Commission 2015 Bay Area Parks panel #4, details of buildings, flora and fauna at the two National Parks
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks panel #5, Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
Google Commission Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004, 3 panels see each panel for details.
Google Commission 2015 Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004. Panel #1 Features the preamble to the U.S. Constitution superimposed on a United States flag
Google Commission 2015 Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004. panel #2 Shows Mayor Gavin Newsom marrying John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney in 2004 in front of San Francisco City Hall
Google Commission 2015, A list of couples married in 2004 whose union was nullified by Proposition 8 with the Rainbow Flag behind. Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004. panel #3
URBAN ABSTRACTIONS AND PRIVATE UNIVERSES.
In my observations of the physical world, both man-made and natural, I find myself fascinated with the patterns, rhythms and structures I see all around me. From beach sand rivulets to the ridged metal siding of a building, these surfaces, shapes and textures contain a rich and detailed narrative that is the essence of life. Their beauty is in their simplicity, and their power is in their ability to create a cosmos. The smallest part, the fragment, the microcosm, contains many stories about the incomprehensible vastness in which we live.
The most recent work is starting to explore the creation of volume on a flat surface, without using traditional compositional perspective. These personal universes are deep dives into a simulated multi-dimensionality without traditional form or substance.
Mixed Media on etched wood panel36x48 inches2023Catalog ID: 202305Download ⇩
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Mixed Media on Wood Panel72 x 36 inches2018Catalog ID: 201824Download ⇩
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Mixed Media on Wood Panel12 x 48 inches2018Catalog ID: 201806Download ⇩
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Laser etched wood panel with graphite, acrylic paint.60x12 inches2015Catalog ID: 201533aDownload ⇩
Laser etched wood panel with graphite and acrylic paint. Shows a list of couples married in San Francisco in 2004 whos' marriages were annulled by Proposition 860x12 inches2015Catalog ID: 201533cDownload ⇩
Laser etched wood panel with charcoal, graphite and white chalk. 60x36 inches2015Catalog ID: 201532bDownload ⇩
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Google Commission 2015 Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004. Panel #1 Features the preamble to the U.S. Constitution superimposed on a United States flag
Google Commission 2015, A list of couples married in 2004 whose union was nullified by Proposition 8 with the Rainbow Flag behind. Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004. panel #3
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks, panel #2, details of buildings, flora and fauna at the two National Parks
Google Commission 2015 Bay Area Parks panel #4, details of buildings, flora and fauna at the two National Parks
Space/Time series are single drop monotypes, based on my meditation practice which has strongly influenced the simplicity and abstraction of this work.
Meditations on the Square are multi-drop prints inspired by traditional quilts, Islamic tile patterns, and the music of Phillip Glass. They continue my obsession with the square as compositional structure. Two interlocking images are printed in a way that allows for the transparency of the ink and the multiple drops together to an image with great depth and intensity.
Multi Drop Monotype on Rives BFK29.5 x 29.5 inches2011Catalog ID: 201101Download ⇩
Multi Drop Monotype on Rives BFK29.5 x 29.5 inches2011Catalog ID: 201102Download ⇩
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My collage work started in 2011 with my series Rising From the Ashes ( Collages #1-12) when I wanted to create art about the Fukushima Earthquake and Tsunami. I realised that no image could do it justice and so started tearing paper, creating abstract images about destruction, and the subsequent attempts to put our world back together. This exploration allowed me to explore the use of symbols as statements, and the chance aspects involved in torn paper.
The Koi Series are loosely based on observations of koi ponds. I was intrigued with representing the movement, shadow and light on water, specifically the flow of the fish and the reflections on the water surface which are are both abstract and representational at the same time. And finally with the challenge of creating these images with the flat surface of a cut piece of paper where only color and line can be used.
Lost and Found work is using the cast offs from cutting paper, kept by accident and reused in compositions redolent with chance and whim.
Collage on Panel12 x 48 inches2018Catalog ID: 201806Download ⇩
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Collage on panel30 x 30 inches2017Catalog ID: 201801Download ⇩
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Google Commission 2015 Same Sex Marriage in San Francisco 2004. panel #2 Shows Mayor Gavin Newsom marrying John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney in 2004 in front of San Francisco City Hall
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks panel #1, A map of the Bay Area showing National Parks in green and cities in red.
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks, panel #3, Redwood at Muir Woods National Monument
Google Commission 2015, Bay Area Parks panel #5, Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
We live in a world where every question can be answered by the click of a mouse, where we can visit ancient monuments from the comfort of our armchair, a world where the mysterious has become obsolete. Religion has been fatally corrupted by power and decadence, knowledge has replaced wisdom, and information has become a product in itself. In this world more is better, excess is stylish, and "reality" is more likely to refer to a television program than a personal experience. This is a world where the ephemeral is glorified over the substantial and where meaning is not just hard to find, but is seen as both irrelevant and quaint.
And so I have asked myself "Where do I find meaning in my life and in my art?". Looking back at my work with skulls and thorns in Rituals and Meditations and earlier where I was using fabrics and flowers, I could see myself searching for meaning. This earlier work was characterized by an intensity and vitality expressed most especially through color and pattern, and while I see now that this very vitality was an expression of meaning in itself, at the time this did not feel enough.
This new work began after taking a year's break from painting, in which I created collages inspired by the Fukushima tsunami, which washed my own creative world clean and allowed me to start afresh. Thru my love of African music, such as hi-life and Afro-Beat I was inspired to express rhythm in color and form, and which in then created the basic compositional structure of this new work. My personal obsessions were distilled into abstract symbols and shapes and these replaced the centrality previously held by representation.
Here I share carnal ceremonies, and fierce, rhythmic visions. There are no answers here, only the delirious delights of mysteries and riddles. These paintings offer my private adventures on the stormy seas of the unknown and the unknowable, stories both ancient and modern, siren songs to lure you into experiencing life in all its beauty and power.
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These paintings are visual keys that explore the mystery of beauty. Using ritualistic creative processes that allow me to connect with my inner unconscious reality, I explore some of the paradoxical and magical aspects of life. An energetic attraction connects objects that have personal meaning for me, such as stones collected from beaches around the world, dead leaves found while out walking, thorns from the black Locust tree, animal and human skulls, and creates compositions that contain an intense and focused devotional energy that honors the disturbing balance of opposites that is the inner core of beauty.
It is disturbing because it exposes the paradoxical honesty that is the world. Beauty has to be both yin and yang, both light and dark, both life and death, both stability and motion, both emptiness and fullness, both black and white. It represents the unknown and often the unknowable, and is contained in the wordless power of these mysterious images.
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A Meditation On Being Human
Drinking From The River Of Silence
