Red Te Quiero, 24"x18" on wood panel is a modernist abstract painting celebrating the vivid varieties of the colour red. Other accent colours are applied with painting knives for a lively texture and composition.
Just Because It Makes Me Happy., 24"x30", acrylic on canvas is an abstract painting inspired by the joy of working with bold colours and inventive shapes interacting on canvas. Sometimes the only reason for a painting is the feeling it creates.,
Where Waters Meet , 11"x14" acrylic on canvas board. This small abstract painting suggests to me a landscape with is lively shapes and texture suggestive of flowing water.Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Like many small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in diverse ways.
The Orange Dot, 12"x12" acrylic on canvas board. This small minimalist abstract painting features centrally placed graceful shapes, perhaps suggestive of figures in a flowing background of quiet colors that harmonize the composition. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Like many of the small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
Moving On, 12"x12" acrylic and collage on canvas panel. It's ia fun abstract composition that includes figurative elements suggesting open-ended stories.
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Like many of the small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
Garden Bits, 12"x12" acrylic on canvas panel, SOLD but similar paintings may be commissioned. Click below for inquiries.
Like many of the small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
The Art Collector, 12"x12" acrylic painting and collage on canvas board. The idea behind this mixed-media work is that we, ourselves, become like the artworks we love. The highly textured "painting" in the background shimmers with gold paint.Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Like many of the small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
The Cove, 12"x12" acrylic and collage.This work emerged as a harmonious, softly modelled landscape. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale
Like many of the small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
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Petal Power, 12"x12" acrylic on canvas board. The title came afterward. Seeing the painted shapes suggested flower petals with a determined force. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale
Like many small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
Passing By, 12"x12" acrylic on canvas board. A minimalist abstract whose title was suggested by the bits of floating color and shape wafting through this painting.Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Like many of the small works in this series, this minimalist abstract painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
The Time Thief, 12"x12" acrylic on canvas board. There's a suggestion of a mischievous figure in this oneClick below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
.Like many of the small works in this series, this painting was created in a spontaneous, mostly intuitive process with the intention of creating visual and decorative enjoyment in a diversity of ways.
Crossing La Mancha, 36"x24", acrylic on canvas. This painting was inspired by thoughts of Don Quijote. Although a windmill appears in it, the composition was designed as an abstract with strongly contrasting elements of design. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
PrimaryLinks, 24"x24", acrylic on canvas. An abstract work about Primary colors and contrasting shapes in lively intuitive design Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Room with a View, 40"x30" acrylic on canvas. This playful semi-abstract painting references decorative townhouse living in a city, with a view from its upper story.Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Java, 40x30 acrylic on canvas, NFS but similar paintings can be commissioned. A lyrically abstract painting, companion to "Mambo".Predominantly red with interacting biormorphic shapes and lively colours.Click below with inquiries.
Mambo, 40"x30", acrylic on canvas, NFS, but similar work can be commissioned. A lyrically abstract painting, companion to "Java", predominantly red with interacting biormorphic shapes and lively colours. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
All That Jazz, 30"x40", acrylic on canvas. A wildly colorful interaction of shapes, with a suggestion of dancing figures at center. Inspired by Chihuly's glassworks.Click below for inquiries.
Three in Gallery setting. Just a display of how some paintings relate on plain walls.Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Málaga, 40"x28" acrylic on canvas SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. This abstract painting was inspired by life in southern Spain.Click below for inquiries.
Praise, 40x30" acrylic on canvas, SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. Click below for inquiries
One in a set of 3 lively abstract paintings that relate together (Owned as a set)
Greeting_40"x30"_acrylion canvas, SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. Click below for inquiriesl
One in a set of 3 lively abstract paintings that relate together (Owned as a set)
All Things Bright and Beautiful, 40x30_acrylic on canvas, SOLD, but similar work can be commissioned. Click below for inquiries.
One in a set of 3 lively abstract paintings that relate together (Owned as a set)
Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
So pleased that these three remain together in a public collection..
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Rhythmically flowing line, biomorphic shapes, and harmonious colour interactions enliven this series of abstract and semi-abstract paintings. Some works suggest animate figures and imaginative settings that evoke open-ended encounters and lyrical narratives.
See the series (click right arrow). Click on a painting for information about it.