Almost-sight thoughts, 2009 oil on canvas 60” x 48” The painting is a critique of sight and perception – and how one can not quite achieve the correct perception of things, or time, until a later time. . . but not in the moment itself. There are two central figures with other faces surrounding them. The lines seem to indicate lines of space, and time. There is an overlap, a sense of memory, there is a drama to the space. . .
Almost-time thoughts, 2009 oil on canvas 60” x 48” This painting contains two elements of time, namely two clocks. Yet there is no sense of time, and there can be no "real time," in a painting. The multiple layers and lines of paint actually suggest a collapse of time. One can not see what is happening in time between the two depicted figures. Is it the past, the present, or a memory. The clocks, as well as the figures are not clear. The clocks also allude to something that is time-related, or temporal, or limited. There seems to be a collapse of something, something as strong as love perhaps.
Untitled, 2010 oil on canvas, 70” x 54”
East Ward One. West the Other, (After Lautreamont), 2009 oil on canvas 60” x 48” The title comes from Lautreamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror. . . “Who can understand why two lovers who idolised one another the night before, because of one word misinterpreted, split up, eastward one, west the other, goaded by hate, both cloaked in lonely pride.
Love-Souls, 2014 (for Jeff) Oil on canvas 30” x 24” This painting is a smaller version of larger paintings made with the same theme(s). This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called – From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ In the painting, there are two central figures, yet not typical figures in that they are somewhat skeletal, and their bodies have become exposed almost like x-rays. One can see their rib cages and their inner states of being/emotions.
Heart Choices I, II and III Each canvas is 30" x 24" or total size of triptych: 30" x 72" This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called – From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“
Heart Choices, II, 2013 Each canvas is 30" x 24" or total size of triptych: 30" x 72" This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called – From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“
Heart Choices III, 2013 Each canvas is 30" x 24" or total size of triptych: 30" x 72" This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called – From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“
Heart Failure, 2012 oil on canvas 14” x 11”
Heart Hell I and II, 2013, oil on canvas 14” x 11” each. Two figures are entwined and interconnected.
Heart Hell I and II, 2013, oil on canvas 14” x 11” each. Two figures are entwined Two figures are entwined and interconnected.
Crazy love, 2011, oil on canvas, 20" x 16" Two figures are depicted with large and out of control poetic hearts. The hearts seem to overtake their entire being.
Anatomical Situation I, 2012 oil on canvas 48” x 36”
Anatomical Situation II, 2012 oil on canvas 48” x 36”
Untitled (Couple III), 2008 oil on canvas 14” x 11”
Untitled (Couple II), 2011-2012 oil on canvas 70” x 54”
This is my Creation, 2009-10, oil on canvas, 70" x 54." The title of the painting "This is my Creation," comes from a Ted Hughes poem called Crow Blacker than Ever - and it has to do with Hughes' idea of theology and persona Crow - among other things. I create my own personae in this multi-layered painting and focus on art and human inter-relations which both create, change and destroy.
Untitled, (easel), 2009-2010, oil on canvas, 60" x 48" Easel rendered in painting can no longer be seen. It is covered up by another figure and large rib-cages.
Untitled (Couple III), 2011-2012. oil on canvas, 70" x 54." When the original Untitled (Couple I) sold, the artist created another painting to go as a diptych with Untitled Couple II. Two entwined figures are inspired by Ted Hughes’ poem – He loved her and she loved him. This painting is about the difficulty of human relations – and the complexity of love. It attempts to show a poetic internal interaction between the two figures. They are exposed and made visible or perhaps the relation has left them as such – over exposed and vulnerable.
Passio, 2008-9 oil on canvas 60” x 48” This painting's Title comes from the Estonian Composer Arvo Part's piece "Passio." This painting depicts two fragmented figures – that are still attached to one another – though somewhat separate, turned away from one another. They seem to be attached by their ribs or torsos, surrounded by or permeated with musical notes. The faded music notes are attached to the figures as if to mark a certain time, music, or connection.
Collapse of Love, 2008-2010 oil on canvas 60” x 48”
Castle-Scar, 2012, oil on canvas, 14" x 11"
Your Heart is in my Soul, 2007-2008, oil on canvas, 48" x 36." In this painting the viewer does not know if there is a drama occurring between one figure or two figures. There seems to be one body/figure present and to it are attached a heart and a face that the full, skeletal figure in the front seems to be clinging to. One questions whether the face/figure in the background is real or imagined. The psychological dimension is blurred. The Object and the subject become interwined, or confused, and the object is a mirror of the subject.
Untitled, 2008-2009, oil on canvas, 48" x 36."