Insight

Chaos / Order

Contrasting panels in this diptych. Chaos on the left depicts a high-energy space with elements discordant and free. On the right is pictured the synergy and structural unity of Order, a cosmology harmonious within itself.
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Patent No. 2

Back in the day of art books and magazines one baffling trend was the stylistic depiction of chrome. Paintings of chrome on cars and toasters alike spread its peculiar eye-catching reflections everywhere. Airbrush artists in the 70's added chrome effects to motorcycle gas tanks and LP album covers but there were more hues in a painted version than...
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Kingsley's Fagin

I'm lucky to have watched many versions since childhood and Sir Ben Kingsley’s portrayal of Fagin in Oliver Twist is the best. This painting in gestural style mimics the bearing of that character, tilted and stumbling about with too much booty in hand.
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Abstract Is

If you’re fascinated by complexity arranged and packaged optimally, therein lies an artistic motive. ' Patent no. 1' presented here reflects on boyhood days when the internal wiring of hand soldered electronics, magazine-advertised ships in a bottle, and stylised airbrush art caught my impressionable mind’s eye. While such an "abstract figuration"...
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New Shoes

We speak metaphorically of "people from all walks of life", to honor their varied circumstance and lessons learned in a lifetime. The style of my New Shoes painting here represents such maturity and its worth in our passage to times ahead.
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