Exploring Abstraction
Palm Beach
January 31, 2025
"Recently, my partner Christine showed a 3 year-old girl named Bay one of my abstract woodcuts and asked, “Do you know what it is?” Without hesitation Bay answered, “Music”.
I think that will do for me. I try to work in a way similar to Jazz improvisation, letting my inspiration have free reign to use the “chops” I have developed from my long involvement with carving and painting.
Just as some music does not have words to carry its meaning, some pictures do not need subjects or overt symbolism.
I have always been a carver. I have loved being involved with form and color. I believe in individual style and invention over academic theory, trendiness, and conformity. I believe in the magic of the hand. I believe in integrity because, as a wonderful southern gentleman once said to me, “The truth will stand when the world is on fire.”
Born 1950 in Lawrence, Kansas. The artist splits his time between London and New Mexico.
Death of Hypatia
Resin
24h x 52w in.
Shadow Of A Doubt
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
32h x 48w in.
Humble Proposal for a Monumental Birdbath #7
Carved wood
16 x 12 x 10.5
Guardians For The Young Sceptic's Temple I
Resin
30h x 5w in.
Strange Heaven For My Non Conformist Brother
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
48h x 48w in.
Young In Lahaina
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
48h x 45w in.
Another Dancing Ghost
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
48h x 48w in.
Skinny Blade Head Venus
Carved Wood
23 x 4.5 x 6.5
Hush Now
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
36h x 52w in.
SOLD
Guardians For The Young Sceptic's Temple II
Resin
30h x 5w in.
Anxious Young Human (London)
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 18w in.
Homage to Sir Toby (London)
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 30w in.
Sycamore Street (London)
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 24w in.
Sycamore Street 2 (London)
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 24w in.
The Joys Of Fatherhood
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
30h x 24w in.
Under A Dark Moon
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
24h x 36w in.
Under A Lazy Moon (London)
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 30w in
SOLD
Memory Of That Ginko Leaf
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
30h x 24w in.
SOLD
Disarmed Family
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 24w in.
SOLD
Unspecified Unarmed Human
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
24h x 24w in.
SOLD
Dark Moon
Oil and Acrylic on wood panel
48h x 48w in
SOLD
A Place For Stories To Hide
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
48h x 48w in.
SOLD
Humble Proposal For A Monumental Birdbath (Hazukashi)
Limewood
18h x 12w in.
Spire (This Way)
Cottonwood
60h in.
You think too much #4
oil and acrylic on hardboard
32h x 24.5w in
Clarity
Acrylic & Oil on Panel
60h x 60w in.
Tainted Optimist
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
24h x 36w in.
Queen of the Night, 2024
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
30h x 30w In
SOLD
Shield of Reserve
Oil and Acrylic on wood panel
48h x 48w in
SOLD
Monk Does Quixote
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
24h x 18w in.
SOLD
Etruscan Twilight
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
48h x 48w in.
SOLD
Lament And A Lazy Moon
Oil & Acrylic on Wood
34h x 48w in. ( framed size - 35h x 49w in.)
Tone Poem
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
48h x 48w in.
SOLD
Callicles Is Wrong
oil and acrylic on baltic birch
32h x 24w
Duality 4
Spanish Cedar
32h x 5.5w in.
The Efficacy Of Yelling At The Sky
Mahogany
38h in.
Little Warrior
Graphite and Gesso on Paper
22h x 15w in
Plan for Reclining Nude
Mixed Media on Paper
15h x 22w in
Duality 3
Spanish Cedar
31h in
Hero Worship
Graphite and Gesso on Paper
15h x 19.5w in
Mother and Child
Graphite on Paper
10.5h x 13.5w in
Imperious
Oil and Acrylic on Baltic Birch
60h x 60w in.
SOLD
Humble Proposal For A Monumental Birdbath #3
Limewood
18h x 14w in.
SOLD
Reflection 1
Oil and Acrylic on Panel
51h x 51w in
SOLD
You Think Too Much #8
Mixed Media on Panel
36h x 30w in.
SOLD
Punk Mulato
Oil and Acrylic on Wood
32h x 24w in.
SOLD
You think too much #6
oil and acrylic on baltic birch
30h x 24w in
SOLD
Music Gets Away
oil and acrylic on baltic birch
36h x 24w in
SOLD
Humble Proposal For A Monumental Birdbath #4
Mahogany
SOLD
Foreign Observer
Mixed Media on Paper
SOLD
Dead Heat On A Merry Go Round
Oil and Acrylic on Panel
50h x 50w in
SOLD
Restraint
Acrylic & Oil on panel
45h x 48w in.
SOLD
Installation of Fall 2020 Show....
October 2020 Fall show.....