Vines and Maps 2

One of several 4' x 5' and 4' x 6' oil paintings created in the "80s in Bryan Texas Studio, and Summer-White Studios, Houston. I like theme and variation here echoing across the canvas , and the negative space. Vines move from drawing to oil painting, and maps are introduced. Oil on Canvas, 46” x 60”

Fish Tailed Flower

A very early painting of warning. As I held my hand up in the middle of the 3,000 square foot group studio, I saw fingers grow fish tails, and flowers bloom – a warning of the hard, hot, mineral future. Painted in the '80s in downtown Bryan TX.

For Cynthia

This is one of a triptych of three vertical canvases exhibited together at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University. They were painted when my sister Cynthia was being treated for cancer, which she survived then. 60” x 46”, oil on canvas, 1980s.

Moon Flower Sun Flower

Two spiritual poles: the light of the day, and the dark of the night. In the collection of the Psychology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station TX. 46” x 60, oil on canvas, 1980s

Fish Tailed Flower 2

This was exhibited at a one-person show in a Houston gallery.

I Thou Burning

oil pastel

All of the oil pastel paintings in the I Thou series are based on the ideas of Martin Buber, and on the relationship of two people.

I Thou Red Cross

A difficult relationship between two people. oil pastel

I Thou Yellow Vine

The yellow is scratched in with a knife through layers of oil pastel to reveal a ground on yellow oil pastel. Knives are very useful in this kind of art.