The exhibition 'Flowing' explores our existence as beings woven together by the vast current of love. While each portrait captures a unique individual, their essence is one—like different waves arising from the same ocean of love.

The transparent lines of light flowing over the figures are visual manifestations of this unseen, immense energy. When this current flows fr

eely between us, the barriers of the self dissolve, allowing us to truly embrace and extend grace to one another.

To live is the sacred process of returning to our true nature: love. As we rediscover this essence, our lives conclude with grace and beauty. In the end, when the ephemeral shadows of the world fade, love is the only legacy that remains. These works serve as a reminder that we are never solitary, but vibrant threads in an eternal web of affection.

I continue my observational investigation into color and light. It’s a fascination that I explore through the still life genre. My “still life” paintings arise out from visual disarrangement, commotion and confusion. I impose order and compose a state. 

My subject matter can be quirky. My color choices are unrelenting. My depiction borders on believable realism and pop art. I arrange my compositions for movement, in that, often there is not any one focal point. Your eye will travel through its own wandering path as different aspects call to you.

I position each element of the painting, including the background, the surface textures and the negative spaces, as a claim on your attention. Nothing is meant to recede into neutrality. Objects are legible but not privileged. (They are, after all, humble objects that serve.)

Most importantly while I attend to the objects’ composition and rendering, I leave space in the painting for your own narrative and personal reflections during your moment with the painting.

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life."

— Rachel Carson

This show continues a series begun in last year’s exhibit, Earth Unknown, a look at landscape not as scenery, but as Earth under threat. Art has always been there for me. My grandfather was a marble sculptor whose work can be found in New York city, including Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. In my small way, I continue that tradition that began in Carrara, Italy.

I grew up in southern Ohio where I spent afternoons scouring "cricks" for fossils and rocks in mud flats, which was an area completely cleared of trees and vegetation in preparation for new housing. My interest in nature, whether trees, or the treasures that lie below still sustain me. Living in New England for fifty years, shaped by its light and weather, its marshes, shorelines and heavy skies has been rewarding.

I work in oil paint mixed with cold wax medium, building surfaces in layers through addition and removal, scraping back, incising marks, revealing color beneath. The paintings in Elements of Earth and Sky live somewhere between observation and imagination. Some begin with photographs I've taken. Many begin with color and intuition. I see the horizon lines that run through most of this work not a boundary, but as a threshold between earth and sky.