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 inches2008Catalog ID: 200842Download ⇩
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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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This is the description22x22 inches2009Catalog ID: 200924Download ⇩
Watercolor on paper29.5x41 inches1991Catalog ID: 199112Download ⇩
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Watercolor on paper45x96 inches1992Catalog ID: 199240Download ⇩
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After not painting in watercolor for 9 years, I have joyfully returned to this challenging medium to create these vibrant abstractions inspired by that uniquely American music-Jazz. The dazzling colors and bold shapes are visual homages to Coltrane and Davis, Ellington and Armstrong, Mingus and Monk, and most surprisingly to the beautifully lyrical Jazz from Ethiopia. I have tried to create work in the true spirit of spontaneity that is the essence of jazz, utilizing all my compositional skills to create shapes and colors that truly embody this powerfully original music.
Recent inspiration from microbiology and cellular structures are pushing my creativity into even juicier compositions.
Along side the watercolors are more spontaneous pastel drawings.
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 ⇩
acrylic paint on wood panel44x72 inches2021Catalog ID: 202101aDownload ⇩
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Acrylic paint on wood panel44x72 inches2021Catalog ID: 202101dDownload ⇩
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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Laser etched wood panel with charcoal, graphite and white chalk. 60x36 inches2015Catalog ID: 201532dDownload ⇩
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Three panel work using collage and laser etched wood panels60x84 inches2015Catalog ID: 201533Download ⇩
Laser etched wood panel with graphite, acrylic paint.60x12 inches2015Catalog ID: 201533aDownload ⇩
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)
Jazz Mural for Word Cafe (second section)
Jazz Mural for Word Cafe (third section)
Jazz Mural for Word Cafe (fourth section)
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.
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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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