Floating Mapping Landing
Our Selves may not be always interesting. Or comforting! We seem, sometimes, to dissolve into our environment - yet to remain still ourselves: rising, falling, resting - floating!
In a sense, painting is the expression, and the reflection, of a self that in often elusive. But my paintings are also about paint itself - as expression of emotion to which viewers respond individually. As a painter, I want my viewer to respond - and to think! That is why I use the transparency.
Color is major in these works. Applied wet-on-wet, with brush, combs, hand-strokes, every line of dribble, or sign-enamel or oil, gloss or matte (for life has different surfaces) is the dialogue of a work itself that is never still... dictates change...
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Blue Approach - 72" x 89" (SOLD)
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Transfiguration 4 - 44" x 44"
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Transfiguration 3 - 44" x 44"
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Passages - 38" x 34"
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Blue Approach 2 - 32" x 32" (SOLD)
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Transfiguration 1 - 44" x 38"
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Transfiguration 2 - 44" x 38"
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Blue Approach 5 - 32" x 26"
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Blue Approach 4 - 28" x 22"
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Riverbed II
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Blue Approach 3 - 28" x 22"
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Riverbed IV (SOLD)
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Mapping I - 65" x 67"
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Mapping III - 47" x 45" (SOLD)
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Floating XXX - 84" x 51"
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Mapping VI - 46" x 42"
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Landing I - 44" x 38"
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Approach III - 32" x 32" (SOLD)
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Floating VII - 40" x 26" (SOLD)
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Floating XII - 84" x 51"
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Floating XXI - 30" x 34"
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Landing II - 44" x 38"
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Landing III - 38" x 44"
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Landing IV - 26" x 26" (SOLD)
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Landing VII - 26" x 26"
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Landing VIII - 26" x 26"
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Landing X - 22" x 28" (SOLD)
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Landing XI - 26" x 26"
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Landing XIII - 64" x 58"
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Landing XIV - 38" x 44"
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Mapping IV - 46" x 42"
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Mapping V - 46" x 42"
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Mapping VIII - 46" x 42"
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Mapping VI - 46" x 42"
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Mapping VII - 46" x 42"