Play Me Home

Play Me Home

11x14 Oil on stretched canvas

While Winter Sleeps

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While Winter Sleeps

6x18
Oil on stretched canvas

Tracks in the Wild

Commission

Tracks in the Wild
60x70 cm

Stuff of Dreams

Commission

Stuff of Dreams
50x60 cm
Oil on stretched canvas

The Blaze

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The Blaze

30x40 cm Oil on canvas

My favorite thing to do in the world is ride a horse. I figured it was time to paint one. 

Whale Watching

Commission

Whale Watching

18x36

To the Sun

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To the Sun
16x20 Oil on canvas

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
                                           -C.S. Lewis

Breakers

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Breakers

11x14 Original Oil Painting
With brush and palette knife.


The windy waves mount up and curve and fall,
    And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow,—

    Tho' I am inland far, I hear and know,
For I was born the sea's eternal thrall.

I would that I were there and over me
    The cold insistence of the tide would roll,
    Quenching this burning thing men call the soul,—

Then with the ebbing I should drift and be
    Less than the smallest shell along the shoal,
Less than the sea-gulls calling to the sea.

                                           ~Sara Teasdale

Climb Out of the Box

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Climb Out of the Box

11x14 Original oil on canvas

Degas Impressions

Degas Impressions

 

18x24 Original Oil on canvas

 

It is true. There is someone who feels as I do.

                                                  -Edgar Degas

Amber Waves of Grain

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Amber Waves of Grain

12x24 Original Oil on canvas

 

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

                                                    -Twyla Tharp

Autumn Walk

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Autumn Walk

12x24 Original Oil on canvas

 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.

-Robert Frost

Coneflower

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Coneflower

12x16 Oil on stretched canvas

The City That Never Sleeps

The City That Never Sleeps

22x28 Original Oil on stretched canvas

Part of City series

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

 

                           -John Steinbeck

Chi-town

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Chi-town

 

22x28 Original Oil on stretched canvas

Part of City series

• Chicago


• Two years living in the windy city and it feels more like home that many places I've been before


• Drove all night to get to it at first. Delirious in the morning and didn't know a soul. I remember driving in on I-90 and seeing the city looming up, the traffic crunching in, space getting tighter. Falling into the midst of chaos, exit and then suddenly swallowed up in the heart of Chicago.


• Learning how to ride the L, red line, green line, brown line...best Indian food under the train tracks, $5 slice of pizza as big as your head from Bacci's


• The peace of running down N.Lake Drive by the lake, with the lights of the Hancock looming behind. You know they plant palm trees in the summer by the lake. HA. Then winter.


• Walking through the snow at night to talk to the homeless. I forgot to wear two pairs of socks that first night. I thought I got frostbite my feet hurt so bad. Walter sat at his usual spot at Ohio near Michigan. He held a sign saying "GOD IS GOOD". We were the ones doing "ministry" but HE preached to us about Jesus and told us he was a farmer planting seeds. So many of them, all with their spots, don't remember their names, all so happy to share a friendly chat while our bodies became numb.


• Michigan Ave, the Magnificent Mile. It is magnificent. Towering buildings, glittering shops. Beauty that amazing man created. Fascinating to think that part of it was originally lake and came into being through one squatter, Streeter, who stuck his boat on a sand bar, made land out of sand and garbage, invited more squatters to his "independent district" and fought off the authorities with guns and boiling water.


• Watching the tops of roofs with peeling paint and graffiti skim by. Riding the pink line out to Little Village, a slice of Latin America. New Life springing up. But more kids killed in shootings. And in Humboldt Park you have people like the Osgoods giving their lives to reach kids from broken homes, holding them back from the relentless pull of the gangs. Telling them they are loved and have futures.


• This city, so full, so rich. Fear, hope, exhilaration, endless stories, peace in chaos, growth. Wonderful.

The Poppy Field

PRIVATE COLLECTION

The Poppy Field

 

34x40 Oil on stretched canvas

• Thanks for being a fellow creator


• one who oozes art out of their fingertips, whose creativity can't be contained and must come out


• a fellow traveler, wanderer, wonderer


• one who holds onto the smallest beam of light in the darkness and waits for sunrise

3 New Commissions

I always like creating custom paintings. Here's a couple I've been working on lately.

Gentle and Strong-Original Modern Contemporary Elephant Oil Painting

Gentle and Strong

18x24 Original Oil on canvas

• truthful and gentle always shall my love be to you


• the ones who have learned to be gentle are the strongest


• an elephant's faithful...one hundred percent

Hum-Abstract Impressionism Hummingbird Oil Painting

 

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Hum

18x24 Original Oil on stretched canvas

• Back porch steps, late afternoon sun


• Birds flutter in the feeder


• I don't think I've ever seen a hummingbird land before. He sits on the clothesline


• Teeny tiny body. So fragile you could crush him in your hand.


• Why is it that all grandmothers seem to have learned to enjoy things like birds and flowers?

 

Derelict-Abstract Impressionism Abandoned Building Oil Painting

Derelict

24x36 Oil on canvas (Abstract Impressionism Abandoned Building Oil Painting)

• I drove for an hour to a finger of land amongst lake tendrils


• Back road photo of a rundown barn in a field


• I'm so tired, but if I can only get a good photo this will be worth it


• Forgotten barn, no trespassing


• Fading light, body tired, soul sore


• You may be abandoned but I found you


• Not alone