4" x 4" - small paintings

$50 each

Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

This is an exercise in playing with color and contrast. Complimentary colors along with black and white drawing helped me achieve contrast and repetition along with harmony across both paintings.

Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

12"x12"

$250

Abstract geometric shapes, including large red circles and various numbers, are arranged on a white background with splashes of black and grey. Text and numbers are partially overlaid, creating a layered and textured effect.
 

24"x24"

Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

$1459

This painting has been reworked from an older painting from "Off The Grid" series.

‘A River Runs Through It’ is created for you to immerse yourself in a world of circles, lines, shapes and mark making as they reveal their inner secrets. This painting explores the subtle balance between order and chaos, darkness and light, structure and freedom, within the large format composition.

This is mixed media abstract and acrylic painting on a large wood panel. My process involves building up layers of paint and collage as I express myself emotionally. I work on multiple pieces at one time exploring the same idea or theme in different ways. Working on many pieces at once gives me liberty to express myself freely without getting too controlling at an early stage. As I am working, each painting speaks to me differently. It is important to allow each painting to evolve naturally. When the meaning or idea emerges, I start to make decisions about color and composition to bring the work to completion.

 

Looping Around

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

12" x12"

$275

So many times I find that an old canvas provides fresh new inspiration! This was an older canvas where I have created a raised pattern with a new medium - molding paste - and then I fell in love with the pattern and could not move past that. So I put it aside.
Then a few days ago on a cleaning spree I found it and decided to be brave and ‘kill my darling’ pattern. Saving some of it and painting white over the rest. That opened up a host of opportunities. The rest is history as they say.
So many lessons in this story!!!
1. Make a lot of work to allow your skills to catch up with your aesthetic.
2. Be patient
3. Build in layers
4. Enjoy the process and fall in love often
5. Try new things

On another note i will be selling my paintings at LexArt open studios event on May 20 and 21, 2023.

Please visit if you are in the area.

 

Small mixed media on wood board

6" x 6"

$75

This painting is a small study for a larger painting. Hope you guessed Andy is Andy Warhol. 

"Warhol’s 1964 series Flowers, however, is a refreshing and surprising departure from the artists’ initial themes of pop culture and commercialism, and every spring, critics are reminded of the influence that his nature-focused work continues to have on the art world."

 

mixed media on paper

18" X 24"

$875

Layers, layers, and more layers, that’s what this painting is all about.  Seeing how one covers the next and then revealing what’s underneath is fascinating.  I have recently been adding the use of collage, stencils , text and cut paper to the mix.  The  result is more nuance, depth, and interest.  Using the positive or negative of the stencil and then  adding paint to blur or soften the image gives it a nice richness and a sense of history.

 

 

 

 

 

"Experiment 15"

Mixed media on paper

12" x 18"

$450

Lots of layers and mixed media experimenting to reach a finish point.....To create this painting i used
a plethora of techniques and ways of working with mixedmedia, collage, paint and a variety of markmaking tools. 

The colors in this painting are inspired by beach life - soft turquoise, seashell, taupe, sandy pearl.

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."Wassily Kandinsky

 

 

 Three Amigos

Mother and Child

Watermedia on paper

12" x16"

$350 each

Those who are familiar with my work know that i do not paint figures very often, but when i heard about this relatively new idea in art called "disruptive realism", i was intrigued. Here is my first attempt at this idea. 

John Seed has written a wonderful book about it, https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-Realism-Paintings-Distracted-World/dp/0764358014

"Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World"

Nicholas Wilton has a wonderful interview on You tube with the author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PxkIRhBZ5Q

 

 Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism. Helping art lovers, collectors, and artists approach and understand this compelling new phenomenon, it includes the works of 38 artists whose paintings respond to the subjectivity and disruptions of modern experience. Widely published author and blogger John Seed, who believes that we are “the most distracted society in the history of the world,” has selected artists he sees as visionaries in this developing movement. The artists’ impulses toward disruption are as individual as the artists themselves, but all share the need to include perception and emotion in their artistic process. Six sections lay out and analyze common themes: "Toward Abstraction," "Disrupted Bodies," "Emotions and Identities," "Myths and Visions," "Patterns, Planes, and Formations," and "Between Painting and Photography." Interviews with each artist offer additional insight into some of the most incisive and relevant painting being created today.

 

 

 

 Trip to the White Mountains I 

Trip to the White Mountains II

 

Acrylic and mixed media on paper

Matted size 12"x12"

$95 each

 

 

 

Bold, colorful and happy - combinations used in this painting include turquoise, magenta, beige , black and white. Lots of thick paint, texture and collage. 

 

Large hand painted bowl with gold trim

$55

 

  

Medium hand painted bowl 

$45

Small hand painted bowl

$35

One of a kind, exclusive, hand painted in layers with abstract shapes and colors that go with any interior. They are like little abstract paintings. Lots of paint, lots of layers and shapes. These papier-mâché bowl for sale. Eco friendly , artistic gift.

Back to basics. Just black and white collage designs. Trying to brainstorm designs for abstract paintings.
Observe the negative spaces within the simple compositions creating dynamic tension.
Observe the repetition and placement of  similar shapes within the composition.

Black and white 1

Black and white 2

Black and white 3

Black and white 4

 

Remember how we made mixed media hearts from construction paper, glue, tissue, and glitter. Well, this is the grown-up version !!
Playing with the heart shape as any other shape - circle, square, etc. More than any other shape the heart shape has cliched feelings/ emotions attached to it and that makes it even more exciting to work with as an artist.

Hearts on a String

Good Vibes

Happy Valentine's Day

Love is In the Air

 

I have a tendency to organise shapes in simple thoughtful ways, so in the beginning i took simple cutout shapes and arranged them in a pleasing composition.

Attachment

Circle, Square, Triangle

This was done in Jean Carter's class - geometric, abstract collage

In 2017, the MFA Boston had a wonderful exhibition of Matisse's cutouts. When i saw the show i was immediately taken by the simplicity and childlike plafulness of the cutouts. I think a seed was sown in my mind.
Then in 2018, i started researching collage work and found a friend who does this type of work, So earlier this year  (2019) i went to visit her, took a class with her - Jennifer H. - she was very kind and wonderful and taught me a few basics to get me started. In January, this year i also took a class with Jean Carter at the Concord Art Assoc. she taught me more about how to be free with shapes and how they all go together.

Here are a few examples of my collages inspired by Matisse-

"After the Winter" - Black and white lattice with Matisse inspired organic shapes with fonts.

Matisse inspired shapes on his favorite blue paper

sedona sunset

acrylic on clayboard
3 tiles 6" x 6" each
$150 for the set

Spent the last week in Sedona Az. The spectacular scenery inspired me to come home and create a painting with the colors of Sedona. (Had to paint them before i forget!!)This semi abstract painting is inspired by the Sedona landscape/ lifestyle.

Exuberance

11" x 14"
alcohol ink on yupo
$225 (With white mat and white frame)
30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

 

Enjoyed working with alcohol ink on yupo- a new technique for me!! Hope you like it.
Still a part of 30  paintings in 30 days .

Pv Pigeons of India

Acrylic on Canvas
9" x 12"
$175
30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

My Theme for this challenge is going to be as the name suggests "Postcards from India" - I am going to combine my love for Indian art and my new love for painting contemperory abstracts into small paintings/postcards with Indian motifs. I am working from the many photos i took during my trips and creative abstract backgrounds.
I did the same series last year in 2015, it will be interesting to compare.

intergalactic beings

Acrylic on canvas
12" x 24"
$ 250

The title of this painting is influenced by the current Star Wars mania in my house. (We just binge watched all 6 Star Wars movies).

Realistically the painting is a continuation of my study of abstract human figures.

Cleaning day

16" x 20"
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
$475

This painting began as a still life composition but evolved to a more abstract painting with shapes and lines.

Hand painted silk scarves
$50 (includes a lovely pin - as seen)
Delivering them to the Loading Dock Gallery today http://www.theloadingdockgallery.com/