Archive Overview

A listing of my archives is being built at Artwork Archives.

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**In the Bushes_oil on panel_40” x 28”_1988**

Early Works

In the beginning my work was very abstract. Strong influences were Cy Twombly and Susan Rothenburg.

**Maria__oil on panel, 24” x 20”, 1988**

Salem, MA__1989-1992

.While living in Salem I had a large dining room area for my studio so some of my work became larger and I experimented a little more with panel painting. I was reading and studying a lot of Celtic traditions so that does come into my work.

Arthur’s Chair —oil on masonite panel_1990 — **Arthur’s Chair —*oil on masonite panel_*1990**

**Men with Skirts On_oil on linen_32” x 28”_ 1996**

Gloucester, MA__1995-1997

I lived in Gloucester for only 2 years but I knew it was my spiritual home. Early at dawn when awake I could hear the sounds of the Universe. So many artists took refuge here. This piece called Rocks and Water was deeply inspired by Milton Avery. I continued to do works that came out of the Abstract Expressionists education I received but now I was looking at the movements of the sea.

**Eastern Point__oil on linen, 23” x 18”, 1997.**

Beverly, MA__1997-2003

Beverly was the next best thing to Gloucester and I could commute into Boston for work. I also had my own apartment for the first time and I began a spiritual quest into cross cultural imagery. Nature still played a big role; water plants and mountains. The lotus became a reoccurring image. I did a lot of work here until 2001 when I lost my job and my apartment and was forced to move. Everything went into storage until my new home and a huge studio was found in Providence RI

**Fajir__oil on linen, 32” x 28”, 2000**

Providence Studio__2003-2007

Lots was happening in this big studio space in my new home. I was deeply moved and angered by the war in Iraq so this did come into my visual vocabulary. I have been inspired in my career as an artist by Picasso’s Guernica and it will play out through my body of work. My child hood love of horses became a symbol for the abuses of war.

**Portrait of the King’s Horse__oil on linen, 40” x 48”, 2007**

Beverly, MA_1992-1995

I was supporting myself while working towards a MA in Theatre Technology so not a lot of time for painting but I did have a few projects developing. One had to do with men who wore skirts. I thought it was cool that men used to wear skirts and some of the imagery was coming from Egyptian cultures. Something from my past that always stayed with me.

**Boys in a Boat__pastel on paper, 30” x 22”, 1995**

**Blue Lotus__oil on linen, 11” x 14”, 2001**

**Afghan Archives; Horse Head and Legs__oil on linen, 15” x 21”, 2006.**

**Keeping Still Mountain_ oil on linen, 24” x 22”, 2008**

194 Broadway__my bedroom studio.

So here I am, still in Providence. Working mostly in Theatre and Museum Design and painting when ever I could. As I put together my archives and looked at my body of work through the years I began to realize that I have been working with imagery which came from a tradition of depicting the Garden of Paradise. Mountains, oceans, water plants,the lotus and horses. This has become a central guide for me now as I delve into the forces of good and evil in The Garden of Paradise.