Madonna of the Totems - New painting

Madonna of the Totems
40 X 10 inches
oil on canvas
©2008

You can see two other totem paintings here.

Another new Internal Landscape

Half a Day
40 X 40 inches
oil on canvas
©2008

New Internal Landscape Painting

The Other Half
12X12 inches
oil on canvas
©2008

New Untitled Painting

Untitled (yet)
24 X 24 inches
oil on canvas

New Large Diptych - The Open Book

The Open Book
60 X 80 inch diptych
oil on canvas
©2008

Totems

Totem 3 and Totem 4
oil on canvas
each 40 X 10 inches

AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING AT MY ASHEVILLE STUDIO

Solid Ground

Solid Ground
18 X 36 inches
oil on canvas

Boundary

Boundary
3X48 inches
oil on canvas

A Bridge Adrift - new oil painting

A Bridge Adrift
oil on canvas
18X36 inches

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Breach in Blue

30 X 30 inches
oil on canvas

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When Love Flies

When Love Flies
24X24 inches
oil on canvas

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A Tranquil Page - huge oil painting

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This is one of my favorite pieces, another exploration of white, with subtlety and sophistication.

A Tranquil Page
6X4 feet
oil on canvas

Available for viewing in my Asheville River Arts District Studio.

New White Series painting (scroll down to see the full piece)

As much as I love color, I've wanted for years to experiment with subtle variations of white. Here's a detail of my new piece (scroll down to see a small image of the full painting.)

My galleries keep asking me for more colorful pieces because they sell well, but life has thrown so much at me over the last few years, it finally feels like time to sink into light, like crisp white sheets... like clouds in these gorgeous ever-changing mountain skies.

Purity. Something clean. Simplicity.

My first real ventures into the veil of white came around this time last year, as I was feeling worn down by ongoing cold, both physical and metaphorical. My Winter paintings came out of that:



Understandably, last year's whites were crammed full. I do still love these pieces, but right now, for me, both of them feel like a year's worth of details, a year's worth of paintings, incorporated onto one canvas, as if I was so stunned by death around me that I needed to fit in as much as I could while I could... a sort of odd, inverted sense of scarcity.

This time around, I've wanted to focus on one detail at a time, to savor it, and create a sumptuous, clean beauty. I think if I could, I would showcase one exquisite painting at a time in my studio/gallery, rather than full walls, just one sumptuous piece like this new one, on a clean blank wall. One perfect gift.

Here's the full piece on the wall:


Rest
40X40 inches
oil and pencil on canvas

Atlanta Show

I'm participating again in Trinity School's "Spotlight on Art," sale featuring over 1700 pieces of original art. I have dozens of pieces available at the show, ranging from tiny collectible 4X4 paintings to a 48X48 inch diptych.

I'll be at the reception tomorrow from 6-9, so stop by and say hello. The paintings will be on display through Saturday.

Visit this link for more information.