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The scenes are fantastic, magically real, yet still naturalistic. From east to west, with color and subject, the windows create the experience of one day – from dawn to dusk. Creatures move through the landscape both above and below the water. The plants and animals depicted in the various windows are largely native species, many threatened or endangered, who guide an array of exotic visitors through the watery realm. The Tarrytown project will be fabricated in laminated glass by Tom Patti Design. For the past year I’ve been diligently working on the artwork for this wonderful project. Each window area (roughly 5’ x 9’) will be divided into three panels. Installation is slated for the Spring of 2012.      Images (above) show the artwork in progress in my studio and a meeting with Tom Patti of Tom Patti Design discussing the fabrication of the artwork and the first glass samples. These paintings with white backgrounds will be enlarged, merged together with corresponding watercolor landscapes and underwaterscapes and unified into laminated glass panels. |
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I have always been awed and inspired by the mystery and amorality of nature. My paintings deal with carefully selected subjects from my observations, visions, and experiences with the natural world. In the most recent decade, creatures living and dead, have entered into my images. Birds, butterflies, insects, and mammals have become part of the scenes that haunt my thoughts. I investigate the kinship between my envisioned nature and its inhabitants and their physical and spiritual machinations and intrigues. I see the natural world filled with both unconscious and symbolic rituals and phenomena. My paintings are meant to give insight into this often unseen world and a heightened awareness that challenges our assumptions about the world around us. The images in my paintings are surreal, yet firmly based in naturalism. The flora and fauna described in my paintings create a liaison between our natural world and our human world and imply a kinship to the human experience. I paint with thin oil glazes, directly applied, layer upon layer onto a stretched linen ground. Even though this is a slow and sometimes tedious method, I have found this technique to be a good way to work as it allows me to effectively translate my subjects and physically construct the elements in my paintings, adjusting and building the images, giving veracity to what might otherwise be conceived of as unbelievable content. Oil glazing tends to create a mirror-like surface that can produce a luminous depth and at the same time shows the history of the making in the surface of the painting - a plastic effect that allows a painting to engage the viewer in an abstract and formal way upon close inspection. Download Artist Bio
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