A Pittsburgh Artist

Impearmint is an illustrated pun for impairment of conscience. This is a deeply dark statement on the political situation during the Covid crisis and the 45th presidential administration.

Dreamscape Let Go is a moving landscape of dreamy images. It is that time of dreaming when you experience wonderful shapes and colors. It is a joyful time of existence. A floating, euphoric feeling of seeing your dream.

Darwin’s Tulips is a series of tulips from varied origins. They are bowing to the sun-drenched morning of an awesome day. The background shimmers behind the color-saturated foreground of draped flowers.

Librals is a specific metaphor using cattails in the swamp with bleeding hearts to show the libral environment. A ladybug and a dragonfly enjoy the view.

Aerial Garden is a study of contrasts between the vibrancy of the background’s iris blue and the floating garden flowers. It is abstract and painted using the process of allowing the mind to float while capturing some of its inhabitants.

Shake Your Tail Feather is a process painting which evokes the undulation of the sea. The surreal sea creatures are dancing to the music.

Many in Body, One in Mind, illustrates the Buddhist principle that though different, we can come together to make a harmonious whole. It is an unplanned process painting evocative of surreal botany with a dewy background.

Festival Berth is an unplanned process painting, exploring teal and the placenta-like properties of reds and umbers. It has a cellular and chick-like feeling. It also expresses the joy of physical communication.

Tuxedo Junction is my second painting in the Covid-19 Era of work. This is a process painting, which I did not plan, but let evolve on its own.