Artists

I didn’t see the face at first, but I did see how well you capture the entirely different aspects and textures of the objects you paint. The wooden cutting board looks smooth and finished. The avocados look fresh and shiny and ripened to that perfect point of of vibrant color and consistency. I can almost feel it’s unique blend of creamy softness and chewable bulk. The knife looks like it just cut through the avocado which dulls the sharp shine on it. It says something about you that these everyday and ordinary aspects catch the artist in you even as you want to simply prepare some food to eat.

The Devil Tree is like being a traveler peering through a door and encountering an old and weathered sentinel guarding the mysterious ethereal world behind it. Your blurb describes the mood very well.

Your Thistle Stop is a deceptively simple composition which you executed perfectly. In order to have the balance it does every line is necessary. The tall and almost parallel lines of the dried stalks stand in contrast to the off center alignment of the thistle stalks with the thistles being of different heights, and to balance the whole scene is the diagonal line of the path creating visual tension. You have a really good eye for details like this. I’ve seen it in many of your paintings, especially the ones of nature. It makes the paintings dynamic and specific to your native style.

Thanks for sharing your art! I love to see it.