A gift bestowed from The Numinous Creative Mind: The ancient discovery of Ritual Dance.
(Casein/wax-resist/Gouache/Arches paper/34x49ins.)
A gift bestowed from The Numinous Creative Mind: The ancient discovery of Ritual Dance.
(Casein/wax-resist/Gouache/Arches paper/34x49ins.)
(2026/casein/goauche/wax resist/oil pastel/Arches paper)
He let go the Classical 3 Modes of Instruction, in favor of his Personal Interpretation:
Manifestation is Consistency/ Pattern is Equilibrium/ Integration is Convenience.
(Arches paper/Casein/Gouache/Oil pastel) 2026)
The Guiding Light/ Icon of an Unknown Saint as I remember Him.
(mixed media & collage elements from antique Greek book)
An Ancient Initiate offers his praises freely -
(mixed media & collage elements from fragments of antique Greek Theological book)
Love Letter to a Sphinx
(Casein/Oil Pastel/Inks/Wax Resist/Pencil/Arches Paper)
An interpretation of one of my favorite songs... Purple Rain. (Casein/Oil Pastel/Inks/Wax Resist/Pencil/Arches Paper)
The Dreamer Will Dream A Dream (Casein,Oil Pastel/Ink/Arches paper 2026)
Reimagining Manet’s "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” - or - Picnic on the Lawn Role Reversal
(water color/gouaches work 31x42 ins.) I had a comical notion of reversing the character’s sexes.I decided to dress the women (or gender ambiguous seated figures) in a similar style to the original painting. I love Manet’s wonderful oil painting and you will see how I did use his general layout, but did my own thing. After all, I was not trying to copy his masterpiece. But I think the irony and peculiarity of my piece is obvious.
Olympio (gouache/casein/Arches paper 29x38 ins.)
Édouard Manet painted his 'Olympia' in 1863. It was considered controversial, shocking, even scandalous. I couldn't resist adding it to my series of 'Role Reversals'. Again, I am not trying to copy another of Manet's masterpieces. I am simply exploring an idea. My humorous take, 'Olympio', switches the sex of the main figure and also the Black servant, who now becomes a handsome friend; made evident by his tray with two wine glasses, two forks and a piece of cake to be shared. The cat too, now white, is no longer menacing.
The Beggar & St. Martin
In my interpretation the Beggar only accepts Martin's horse, ignoring his offering, golden coins and fine clothes. Sainthood may not always be practical.
(gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper 37x53 ins.)
Pause in an abstract conversation.
(28x50 ins./gouache/casein/paper)
The Midnight Dance (Ritual for Deliverance from Distortion)
(gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper 39x44in)
Oracle
(gouache/oil pastel/Arches paper 38x49ins.)
Encounter (Visits to the Cathedral of Nature)
(mixed media/Arches paper/28x44ins.)
Cleansed ! Encounter (Visits to the Cathedral of Nature)(mixed media/Arches paper/28x44ins.)
Messenger (mixed media/Arches paper)
Perhaps
(Casein,Wax resist, Gouache,Paper)
Love The Giver.
(Casein,Wax resist, Gouache,Paper)
Discovery of the Primordial Flower.
(mixed-media/Arches paper/approx. 42x50in. irregular edges)
Swimming My Love To You...
(Arches paper/mixed media)
Should you conjure up a personal sphinx, it's best not to ask or answer any questions...
(Mixed media/ Arches paper/ 37.50 x 50 in.)
Thinking about a quote from Rilke: “It is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret." (Mixed media/ Arches paper/ 42 x 46 in.)
Sophia, still keeping her secret
(Mixed media/Arches paper 29x44.50 in.)
Ophelia...don't go yet...
(Arches paper/mixed media/36x47 in
Pierrot Disheveled
(Mixed media/Arches paper 29x44.50 in.)
He walked fast as though there was somewhere he needed to be, before he realized he was already there.
(mixed media/Magnani paper 2025)
Be Washed By The Rain.
(mixed media/Magnani paper 2025
She found the Pearl of Wisdom in a most unlikely place... (mixed media/Magnani paper 2025
Michael de Montaigne’s famous quote “When I play with my cat- who knows whether it is not she who is playing with me?”
(Mixed media/Arches paper)
Boy with a Dove
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where."And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time."
- T.S. Elliot
He reclaimed and renamed his so-called "sinful self" as his joyful Pagan self...or - The Smile.
The moment she knew - if she did not mean what she said - she wouldn’t say it...
"Blackbird singing in the dead of night. Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life. You were only waiting for this moment to be free. Blackbird fly, Into the light of the dark black night." - Beatles song Lyric
The Suddenly Everything works:
Suddenly everything, visible & invisible was connected...followed by Divine Nonchalance.
How Green (was) my valley?
Sea Dreamer's Sea-Stories
The Privileged Ones - (Mixed media - Vintage Class Photographs)
