Paintings
For years I painted on ceramic sculpture, so the leap off the sculptural surface to canvas was a very natural one. I started with the Vessel series at the bottom and have explored 4 distinct series that are on going.
Sheltering was made during the isolation of the pandemic. It also represents a return to earlier sculptural explorations of figuration. The figures are populating a real space with suggestive narratives enhanced with window and glass reflections.
The Fragment Paintings are a bridge between the Glass paintings and the Sheltering series. They also represent a return to figuration from the ceramic pieces as subject matter for the paintings. Here I have broken up and repurposed my own work into a new context. They are paintings of sculptures that were painted AND in some cases, painted with paintings of paintings! They also are, like the Glass series, close up and play between realism and abstraction.
The Glass Paintings evolved from the TRANSLUCENT photographs. It occurred to me, early on, that the successful photographs were the ones that had a very painterly quality to them and I always felt that I wanted to use those photographic compositions to make large oil paintings that straddle the line between realism and abstraction.
