Vertical Still Life

A painting begins with a thought or an image, a response to either internal abstract processes or external visual stimulus. Everything is a source and sometimes everything begs to be included. I have an outsider-like compulsion to fill all spaces, using a juxtapositioning of images and an irrelevant sizing of objects. A flower has the same relevance as an airplane or a bird, they all deal with the ideas of migration and change.

it includes elements of the following: mechanization, flowers, printed circuits, root structures, electric fields, magnetic fields, dendritic patterning, microscopic/macroscopic universality, capacitors, resistors, migration, atomic structures, cosmology, Lake Perch etc, etc……

transformations, Sold electromagnetic-migratory-tulip-capacitor-pollination-flight2013, Acrylic on Wood, 44" x 60"
fragmentation1987 1987, Acrylic on Canvas, 4' x 6'

vegetation transubstantiation, Sold

Eastern Illinois University2002, Acrylic on Canvas, 2002, 48" x 48"
2 inch segments without answers2006, Acrylic on Wood, 6 variable 8" x 8" Panels
Ends and Beginnings 2005, Acrylic on Canvas, 69”w 21”h
Memories, Sold 2018, Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 36"
Box of Toys, Sold 2016, Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 36"

Toys In A Grid, Sold

2020, Acrylic on Canvas, 38" x 38"

Arches and Toys In A Box,

2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 38" x 38"