City of Lights 2003

Learning about art and the artist of yesterday and today is like a wide river of water and I’m a six-foot dry sponge. In 1994 a friend and I flew out of San Francisco at night, and it was the first time I saw city lights stretch out into the vast distance. When I discovered Yvonne Jacquette’s airplane view paintings it instantly drew me back to the San Fran night skyline from above. With just a memory I tried to recreate what I was so impressed by and City Lights began many paintings with the “hot air balloon view”.


Oil on Canvas 18" x 24"
Sold

Future City 2003 (triptych)

When I moved into my studio at college, I moved right in. Loaded it top to bottom with things I loved, images, sculpture, motorized gizmos, and plenty of new and used canvas. When the brush hit the surface it didn’t take long to realize what my passion was, architecture, and the process of how things are built and created. Future City was an off spring of the idea of the imagined city, where I wanted to allow the viewer to understand that it’s an planned, drafted, engineered, bickered over, and eventually built metropolis. This triptych really got my wheels turning.

Oil on Canvas ea. roughly 18" x 22"
600.

Nude Figure 2003

Painting from the figure never really appealed to me. Maybe I was more focused on whether the sitter was comfortable sitting nude in front of a bunch of people rather than trying to focus on painting and capture the sitters soul. When I turned to the pallet knife I found abstracting the paintings I was able to detach from the curiosity that was distracting me.

Oil on Canvas 12" x 16"
N.F.S.