The World is Not Interested…

January 4, 2014

watercolor and gouache on paper, 22″ x 16″   framed 25″ x 19″ • $475 “The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?” 1989. I’ve been in Philadelphia for three years, working at Roberts & Raymond Advertising Agency as a production artist, preparing advertisement mechanicals for […]

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There is a Vitality…

January 3, 2014

pencil, ball-point pen, and marker on toned paper, 11″ x 14″  • framed in antique wood, 17″ x 20″ • $340 “There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time this expression is unique. And […]

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The Power of Choice is Yours

January 2, 2014

from the Choice is Always Ours series, a triptych, aka Choices ‘R’ Us, aka Sleight of Hand, aka Choices #6: oil on MDF panels, framed in antique oak frame, 23″ x 36″ •  $828 “Our lives are but single, brief sparks in the infinite void of the Eternity, disappearing almost as quickly as they come into […]

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Dedication to Love

January 1, 2014

aka LipBoat #2, colored pencil on black photo-mounting board, 8.5″ x 11″ • in the collection of Eric German 1991 Spring. Original artwork created in the wake of a love affair. Artwork immediately purchased by a friend. 1999 Summer. While in Baltimore visiting the American Museum of Visionary Art, I am deeply touched by an […]

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Othello and Desdemona: What Could Have Been

December 31, 2013

aka Contentment, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″ in hand-painted frame, 21″ x 27″ • $567 2013. Last spring the DaVinci Art Alliance conducted a collaboration with Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater to present an awards exhibition featuring art inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello and PST’s spring production of the timeless tragedy. As a DaVinci member I was able to […]

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Magnum Mysterium

December 30, 2013

from the Christmas Past series, aka Rebirth of the Sun, aka Light of the World, acrylic and oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″  • $320 2011. Sometimes paintings take a number of years to finish. Today’s for example was started in 2005, using iridescent acrylic paints, which I had been using in my lamp-making, to […]

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Incarnation

December 29, 2013

from the Christmas Past series, markers on half-tone photostat, 12.75″ x 10.25″ • $130 2009. Looking forward to the end of a particularly intense year of change, my thoughts again turned to a seasonal question: what to create as my annual holiday greeting? Looking backward 30 years, I rediscovered a black and white half-tone photostat […]

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Animal Body • Inner Self • Outer Self • Divine Self

December 28, 2013

from the Christmas Past series, marker and colored pencil drawing, 9.75″ x 6.75″  •  framed 17″ x 15″ •  $255 2008. Late that autumn, friend Josh Simon contacted me about creating the cover for a book he planned to publish, Growing Up with Draja Mickaharic, a tale about spiritual study with a mutual friend. Josh requested that […]

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Yo

December 27, 2013

from the Christmas Past series: 2003 Photoshop illustration based on 1993 linoprint. 2003. Looking through some older holiday artworks that fall in search of inspiration for a holiday card that year, I rediscovered a linoprint made from a linoleum block that I had cut and printed cards from a decade before. After scanning the image, I […]

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Postpartem

December 26, 2013

from the Christmas Past series, pencil on paper, 14″ x 11″     $154 1981. Today’s art was the 9th of 12 Christmas arts created for friend Harold Stover’s concert series in New York City. In the decade from 1973 -1982, I created 37 (nice coincidence, eh?) discrete artworks for his series, which included numerous […]

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A Cosmic Christmas to One and All

December 25, 2013

  from the Christmas Past series, airbrushed Luma Dyes on paper, 12″ x 24″ •  $432 1978. At the height of my experiments using airbrush, I devoted a number of hours to creating today’s artwork, an ambitious project which entailed drawing the composition on paper, first in non-repro-blue pencil, then inking the drawing with my trusty triple-0 […]

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Christ is Born

December 24, 2013

from the Christmas Past series, original pen & ink on paper, 16.375″ x 12.625″ framed in 24″ x 20″     $480 (see photo below) also available as limited edition b&w prints, unframed: 14″ x 11″ on coated card stock     $20 including postage 1976. Bicentennial of American Independence. I was 32, in my […]

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Behold the Light

December 23, 2013

aka Show of Hands, aka Sleight of Hand, oil on canvas, 27″ x 46″     $1242 2010. In February, Robin Hotchkiss of Salon des Amis gallery in Malvern PA called to see if I would be interested in participating in her upcoming spring group show – Show of Hands. The usual size requirement applied: […]

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My Own Private Mont Sainte-Victoire #3

December 22, 2013

oil on plywood panel, 8″ x 10″     in the collection of Judy Hargreaves-Fichtenbaum October 2010. A favorite Vermont view that I’ve focused on in paint a number of times is of a mountainous presence –  a large hill actually – on the other side of Black River in Springfield, where my friend Kate […]

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Denali

December 21, 2013

acrylic & oil on plywood panel, 12″ x 24″ •  framed in oak, 17″ x 29″     in the collection of Jenna Cole Hamm Spring 2013. In mid-March I started working on a piece that I hoped to sell to a potential patron, whom I had met the prior August while in Alaska. In […]

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