Rainy Day

Watercolor on paper. 11" X 15". Click photo for larger view. $75

Rainy Day

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Screaming

Arylic on a recycled wood cylinder. 5" X 10". Click photo for larger view. $150

This was made during the same time as "Tear My Heart Out." I realized that when your heart is broken you go through many different emotional stages. This was the stage where I was angry, and tired of crying. It was the stage where all I wanted to do was run to utter exhaustion, climb the highest mountain in the world, and scream at the top of my lungs. Scream out my frustrations, scream out my pain, scream in hopes that I would feel better soon.

Screaming

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Ocean Waves

Acrylic on recycled canvas. 40" X 30". Click photo for larger view. $850

Ocean Waves

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Madness

Mixed media on canvas. 40" X 30". Click photo for larger view. $950

This is one of those paintings that took many, many, many hours to create. It was frustrating as it started out with a simple concept. A couple swirls here, a couple dots there and it should have been done. But it never looked right. I originally structured the wood at the bottom to be the bed for a sleeping woman. And was upset with the way the piece looked, at which point I took a large bottle of red paint and poured it all over. I realized at that point, that I was angry. Angry at things in my life, and I just poured the red until I had no more red to pour, until practically nothing from below could be seen, especially that ugly woman. I didn’t realize I was angry, and didn’t like the painting, and didn’t like the red. So I carefully painted white in between the red swirls, and added the golden belt buckles because they resembled golden tulips. I was happy then, because a painting that was once angry, was now calmed by the white, and the tulips represented a growth from anger. Out of every sea of madness a flower shall bloom.

Madness

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Madness

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Feathers

Mixed media on cork board. 28" X 22". Click photo for larger view. $450

Feathers

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Red Bridge

Acrylic on wood. 48" X 30". Click image for close-up. $650

This painting was inspired by a dream I had. It was one of those dreams where you don’t really remember anything except bits and pieces. It was a surreal dream, Tim Burton-esque. And I woke in the wee hours of the morning and crawled to my studio space to quickly draw out the outlines of the bridge in majic marker, before I forgot the image entirely. What the bridge signifies, and what the rest of the dream was, I don’t remember. Connecting two bodies that would otherwise be unaccesible? Allowing nature to takeover the unnatural? Or just simply, a red bridge.

Symphony

Mixed media on recycled canvas. 48" X 30". Click photo for larger view. $950


This piece was one of those that I worked on for hours on end, trying to create something out of nothing. I poured paint, I added string, I glued on wood pieces, I carved lines into paint on-top of paint, and nothing was working. And then one day, when I was doing my laundry, I found someone had thrown away a large bag of old paper samples. And I thought, Whaala! This paper was the answer to my painting dilemma. I immediately took the paper, cut it up into various shapes and placed it unto the painting. It was now a symphony of color, shapes, and objects, and it was done.

Symphony

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Blue Sky

Acrylic on canvas. 40" X 30". Click photo for larger view. $650

Blue Sky

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