Barton Hollow

Looking up into a maple tree on a 18th century farm, I wondered about the family who constructed the buildings and developed the farm over generations.

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Ancestors

Looking at hundreds of small sculptures in a museum one day I realized that most of the artifacts and art existing today were created by our common ancestors who remain anonymous, and knowing they've helped to bring us to where we are today.

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Garden Universe

Looking for a place to paint outdoors in a rural area I stopped at a large soybean field with the Delaware River in the background. As it was a very hot day I had to work quickly as I was using acrylic paints, because they dry rapidly. The most interesting part was that by mostly being still, I noticed a large variety of small creatures in the immediate environment.

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Island Notes

The image of Island Notes is a hand-colored etching. The image developed from sketches and photographs I took while visiting the island of Puerto Rico. This is an attempt to combine some of the industrial areas with the countryside.

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Memory of Prejudice

Dealing with the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, and noticing many peoples changed reactions to individuals apparently from middle eastern countries, who had nothing to do with 9-11.

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Mother Nature

In this painting Mother Nature or Gaia has been given a human form. The life forms be they vegetable, animal, insect or other obviously represent a tiny fraction of creatures still on the earth, all of which are nurtured by Her.

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Sasquatch Moon

This is about Bigfoot a.k.a. Sasquatch. While camping one night in Oregon off of an old logging trail, I had the experience of observing a creature which I had never seen before either in person, photograph or drawing. There was a full moon in the early morning hours when I saw a large figure walking away from me in a dry streambed below where I was standing. When the figure passed into the full moonlight, I saw that it had short hair all the way down from the top of it's head to it's feet. I didn't try to interrupt it's destination, whatever that was.

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Sonny Hill

Sonny Hill is a combination of monotype and collograph using a tree stump and flattened tree bark. Perhaps it's a reflection that what remains in the long run is the earth, sky and sun.

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Rhapsody in Blue-Green

This painting developed from a small ink drawing which I expanded into the current image. It contains 8 symbols often used in traditional Buddhist paintings. A few of these symbols are the parasol over the seahorses head, a complex knot seen as tangled fishing leader, and the 8 spoked ships wheel representing the 8 noble truths, such as right thought, right contemplation, right action. I was influenced by a talk that I heard Jacques Cousteau give in 1968. He spoke of his concerns about the health of the ocean ecosystems.

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Inside-Out

This is based on an ink drawing, which in the course of transformation into a painting became a reflection of each individuals ability and responsibility towards the well-being of other more vulnerable sentient beings.

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Encore

The musician at the left is recharging his psychic battery in the midst of unspoiled nature. Part of the gifts he is receiving is from the songs of many birds. He has been reciprocating by playing music back to them. Many classical composers were influenced by anonymous folk music which itself is rooted in the natural world and human nature.

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Fauna

Fauna is a mixed media painting of randomly arranged mostly non-predatory animals. (Watch out for the cat and the owl). I think I was influenced by more than one of Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom paintings in developing this image.

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