27.5” x 24”, oil and acrylic on canvas over panel, 2024

That Tremendous Fortune Speaks Of No Source

January 6, 2025

30” x 24”, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024-2025

Between The Lines of Reality And Reverie

January 6, 2025

30” x 24”, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024

The Shadow Cast By Nothing Selling The Light

December 1, 2024

Using the simple and banal subject of a woman sitting in a chair, and deviating slightly from its representation, the painting portrays an experience that cannot be explained with words, something I think with lots to look at and think about, while mixing the uncanny with the mundane.

Detail from side angle showing some texture

Being

November 14, 2024

Part of the Clay Hypothesis, this painting engages with the raw, elemental forces of nature and the unconscious, while simultaneously embracing construction and process. It is about human vulnerability, imperfections, and trying to work out the greatest mystery of all: the meaning of life.

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