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Tag Archives: Expressionism
Requiem For A Dead Sister
There are many ugly things in life, and some of the ugliest involve the loss of close family members. I’m not portraying ugliness, however, I’m trying to tell how I feel…
Requiem For A Dead Sister
Oil on Canvasette
16″ x 20″
My oldest sister died. We weren’t exactly close, but we were family. And her loss made me feel like I’d missed out on something. It made me wish that we had found time to learn about each other instead of being separated by our messed-up family. But you can never go back, all you can do is remember….
Reclining Nude – expressionist watercolor painting
Abstract yet even as she fades into the surface you can see who she is what what she is about. Nothing is hidden.
Reclining Nude
Watercolor
11″ x 15″
I wanted to do this painting completely freeform, without even thinking about the results. Instead of looking, I decided to feel my way through it. I’m pleased with the results.
There is beauty even in abstraction… breasts still curve and hips still invite. Sometimes, there is more beauty in abstraction, as details fade and the imagination takes over.
House With The White Picket Fence
A reminder that not everything that is pretty on the outside is pretty on the inside and sometimes the ghosts of past sins won’t stay buried.
House With The White Picket Fence
Acrylic on Canvas
24″ x 36″
There were some dark times in my past What, you think I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for NO reason? Sometimes those things come out in my dreams. Sometimes they come out in paint.
Baghdad, A Prophecy
And they ask me all the time how I knew – how could this be. In a moment, I will tell you …
Baghdad, A Prophecy
Acrylic on unstretched canvas
16″ x 20″
(2001)
Before war fever, before 911 … I knew this was coming. If you ask me how I knew, then I’d have to answer it’s complicated.
Call it a feeling enhanced by knowledge. I knew President Bush had appointed people to powerful positions from the Project For A New American Century – a group that had been sitting on invasion plans for years even at that time. I knew they would be looking for any excuse. Then came September 11 and even as one tower still stood I said to those present that this would be the way it would all get done.
It is not my place to act as judge, but history will do that – hopefully history will be written by those who are willing to tell the truth.
