Original contemporary visionary symbolist landscape painter and fine artist, studio location in Sussex Co. NJ
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Urania's Mirror
In this body of work I evoked the mythical construct of the muse Urania who represents the forces currently shaping our personal and collective consciousness. Urania is the goddess of sudden change, revelation and deconstruction. She incites original thought and inspiration as the antidote to outmoded thought and obsolete paradigms. She represents the union or consummation of opposing forces. She invites us to reframe and reimagine intransigent polarity as an alchemical, synergistic dynamic of integration and refinement.
“Urania’s Mirror”, 2021, oil and collage on canvas, 9”x12”
“Sphinx”, 2018, oil and collage on board, 32”x11”
“Before Your Wall of Night I Still See the Sun’s Fountain”, 2018, oil on canvas, 36”x60”
“Alastor”, 2018, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x72”
“If Ever You Return, All My Cities I Will Burn”, 2019, oil and collage on canvas, 48”x24”
“Departure”, 2019, oil on canvas, 56”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 1, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 2, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 3, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 4, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 5, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 6, 60”x36”
Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 7, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 8, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 9, , 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 10, 60”x36”
“Anima”, 2020, oil over acrylic on canvas, panel 11, 60”x36”
New Work
In this recent body of work I am seeking to further explore landscape as metaphor for the self-reflective universe and personal myth. These symbolist paintings celebrate reality as a holographic matrix where part and whole both define and glorify one another. They pose questions about reality and identity while exalting the mystery. They are mirrors of earthly desire and spiritual transcendence. These projected realities are both coalescing and coming apart. Areas are sectioned, divided or juxtaposed, much like screens, implying movement, process and time. Space is fractured yet reaching toward union. Doorways and portals appear suggesting parallel universes within the over-arching framework of design. Space flattens, is veiled or opens into illusionistic expanses. These paintings are screens, mediators, lenses or filters between worlds. They are narratives of inner journey and reflection. They challenge the viewer to accept vision as a parade of shifting realities that we filter, order and synthesize to conform to personal belief and spontaneous feeling. They beckon us to cross over, enter the mirror and explore our own personal myth.
“Oedipus”, 2017, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x60”
“The Shape Shifter”, 2017, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x60”
“The Cup and the Crown”, 2018, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x72”
“Initiation”, 2018, oil and collage on board, 3 panel triptych each 18”x24”
“Initiation”, panel 1 of 3, 2018, oil and collage on board, 18”24”
“Initiation”, panel 2 of 3, 2018, oil and collage on board, 18”x24”
“Initiation”, panel 3 of 3, oil and collage on board, 18”x24”
“Sophia/The Golden Fleece”, 2017, oil and collage on silk mounted to board, 36”x72”
“Demeter Standing at the Rim of the Underworld”, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 24”x36”
“Labyrinth of the Rose”, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x30”
“The Tree That Bears Much Fruit Bows Low”, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x30”
“Annunciation”, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x30”
“Threshold of Venus”, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x30”
“Oracle”, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 24”x36”
“The Words We Do Not Need To Speak” Panel 2 of 4, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 18”x24”
“The Words We Do Not Need To Speak” Panel 3 of 4, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 18”x24”
“Last Dream Before Morning”, 2017, oil and collage on board, 24”x48”
“Lambeth Plain / The Gates of Forgiveness, 2017, oil and collage on board, 24”x 48”
“Head of Alexander”, 2017, oil on board, 11”x32”
“Departure of the King”, 2017, oil and collage on board, 13”x48”
“Mars in Libra”, 2017, oil and collage on board, 21”x20”
"The Tempest", 2015, oil and collage on canvas, 50"x32"
Inspired by the painting by Giorgione of the same name
“Pinnacles And Rivers Without End”, 2016, oil on canvas, 60”x36”
"The Road To Emmaus", 2015, oil and collage on canvas, 66"x44"
"The Flowers Of Freedom Are Borne By The Children Of Sorrow", 2015, oil on canvas, 60"x36"
"Persephone", 2015, oil and collage on canvas, 10"x10"
"Tomb Of The Poet", 2015, oil and collage on canvas, 20"x16"
"I See Them Still-Your Sweetly Scintillating Venuses Unextinguished By The Sun", 2015, acrylic and collage on canvas, 4 panel polyptych, each 12"x9"
"EL Elyon", 2014, oil on canvas, 4 panel polyptych, each 20"x16"
"Nabi / In The Garden", 2015, oil and collage on canvas, 36"x24"
"Our Hearts' Petitions At Thy Door", 2014, oil and collage on paper mounted to canvas, 40"x30"
"All Beautiful The March Of Days", 2014, oil on canvas, 36"x60"
"The Marriage Of Free Will And What Was Always Meant To Be", 2014, oil and collage on canvas, 24"x36"
"He Could Feel The Mountains Grow", 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 16"x20"
"The Opening Of The Fifth Seal", 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 24"x36"
"The Quivering Trees Announce His Arrival", 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 4 panel polyptych, each 12"x9"
"The Tower", 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 30"x15"
"Nightingales That In Thy Garden Sing", 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 24"x36"
"Stranger Standing At The First Fires Of Morning", 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 48"x26"
Recent Work I
In developing this body of work, which includes painting and collage, I was greatly inspired by thirteenth and fourteenth century Persian manuscript painting, the Nabi School (Post-Impressionist artists including Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard), Japanese screens, Gustav Klimt, and the Sufi mystical poetry tradition. The images are based on the Sufi concept that every moment is the meeting place of the lover and the Beloved. For me, landscape becomes a metaphor for that meeting place. These paintings are ecstatic love poems that celebrate the union of material and spiritual forces. I merge fractured space, vivid color, diverse patterning and the contrasting use of flat and illusionistic space to infuse the work with tension, movement and energy. By sectioning the picture plane I want to imply varied and layered experience. Many areas are veiled, hidden or screened off from corresponding passages to suggest transition or the unknowable.
“Iram”, 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 36x30”
"All Healer, Yet All Wounds, All Light, Yet All Shadows Forsaken”, 2013, oil on canvas, 24”x48”
“Love, Love, Oh Love The Clamorous Echoes”, 2013, oil on canvas, 36”x60”
“Truth’s Rising Day”, 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x60”
“The Clouds Behind Him Run”, 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 32”x50”
“ Pain Of Lost Illusion Loved So Well”, 2014, oil on canvas, 24”x48"
"The Prayer Of The Magnolia”, 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 18”x36”
“Love’s Unfolding Might Resigning”, 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x24"
“Yellow Mountain Screen”, 2013, oil and collage on canvas, 12”x36”
“Song Of The Cedars”, 2012, acrylic and collage on canvas, 10”x8”
“Chief’s Heart/When I Am Called Home”, 2014, oil on canvas, 36”x24”
Recent Work II
In developing this body of work, which includes paintings and collages, I was greatly inspired by thirteenth and fourteenth century Persian manuscript painting, the Nabi School (Post-Impressionist artists including Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard) Japanese screens, Gustav Klimt, and the Sufi mystical poetry tradition. The images are based on the Sufi concept that every moment is the meeting place of the lover and the Beloved. For me, landscape becomes a metaphor for that meeting place. These paintings are ecstatic love poems that celebrate the union of material and spiritual forces. I merge fractured space, vivid color, diverse patterning and the contrasting use of flat and illusionistic space to infuse the work with tension, movement and energy. By sectioning the picture plane, I want to imply varied and layered experience. Many areas are veiled, hidden or screened off from corresponding passages to suggest transition or the unknowable.
"Thee In All I See", 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 9"x12"
“And For Our Sweet Encounter Tear The Robe”, 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 9"x12"
“Lulled By The Airs With Which The Cedars Wave”, 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 9”x12”
“Sweet And Heavy Grows The Earth Perfumed By His Trailing Robes”, 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x30"
“Spring’s Emerald Forests And Gracing Seas Now Forever With Me”, 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 18”x36”
"Dark Night/ St.John Of The Cross", 2012, oil and collage on board, 16”x37 1/2”
“Upon Her Head She Wears the Peacock Crown”, 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 30”x15”
“Therein Have I Seen The Inexpressible Ordering”, 2012, oil and collage on canvas, 12”x36”
“Compass”, 2011, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x 30”
“Black Chasm”, 2009-11, oil and collage on canvas, 40”x15 1/2”
“Abiding In Love’s Perpetual ‘I Don’t Know’ ”, 2011, oil and collage on canvas, 15”x 30”
"The Love That Opened My Spirit's Eye", 2010, oil and collage on canvas, 16"x20"
"Lord Of The Green", 2008, oil on canvas, 36"x24"
"Dawn", 2010, oil and collage on board, 20"x11"
“ And Singing Phosphors Waking Yellow And Blue”, 2010, oil and collage on canvas, 36”x24”
Spiritual Landscapes and Tone Poems
In this series of oil on canvas paintings, I was concerned with the central tenet of my art, that the manifest world is a reflection of Soul or the universe’s awareness of self. Thus, I explored landscape as the dancing partner of the Divine, I was also profoundly inspired by the Chinese and Japanese landscape tradition, the writers of the American Transcendental movement and artists of the Hudson River and American Tonalist schools because of similar ideas that permeate their work.
“The Music That Transcends All Coming In And Going Forth”, 1996, oil on canvas, 48”x26"
“When Secrets More Tender Than Evening Whisper”, 2007, oil on canvas, 36”x18”
“Upon The Threshold Of Thy Door”, 2005, oil on canvas, 18”x36”
“New Forms Perpetually Springing”, 2008, oil on canvas, 36x24”
“Buddha Hall”, 2003, oil on wood, 21 1/2”x18”
“O’er The Dreaming Earth”, 2005, oil on canvas, 24”x36”
“River of Stars”, 2004 oil on canvas, 48”x 24”
“Beryl Canyon”, 2003, oil on wood, 22”x20”
“Red Star”, 2005, oil on canvas, 18”x36”
“Atop An Underwood”, 2005, oil on board, 25”x50”
“Pilgrim Of The Clouds”, 1997, oil on canvas, 20”x50”
“In Rapture Sweet The Soul Doth Onward Glide", 2005, oil on canvas, 12”x48”
“Venus In Scorpio”, 2005, oil on canvas, 30”x15”
“When All Beneath Heaven Is Yourself In Love”, 1999, oil on board, 51 1/4”x 22 1/4”
“Before the Dawn”, 2005, oil on canvas, 18”x36”
“Stories From The Age Of Primal Chaos Lost”, 1997, oil on canvas, 18”x49”
“The Singing Stones”, 1998, oil on canvas 26”x56”
Early Work
My paintings of this period reflect my deep interest in the psychological concepts of the unconscious and memory. Through water, stone, architectural ruins, portals and cities in light and shadow, I explored the connection between personal myth and Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious.” The stylistic inspiration for this series was Goya’s late “Black Paintings” from the years 1819-1823. His masterful handling of a dark palette and his use of timeless archetypal themes shaped my ideas for these works.
“Brooklyn Memory”, 1991,oil on canvas, 12”x9”
“ The Other Is You”, 1990, oil on wood, 12 1/2”x22"
“Uranian Transit”, 1990, oil on canvas, 17 1/4"x 24”
“Lodgers We Who On Thy Threshold Dwell”, 1990, oil on canvas, 12”x24”
“Pentecost”, 1990, oil on canvas, 46x26”
“After The Deluge”, 1990, oil on canvas, 21”x40”
“Eye Of Psyche”, 1988, oil on canvas, 19”x50”
“ Breath”, 1988, oil on canvas 42”x 24"
“Plutonian Elegy”, 1988, oil on canvas, 36”x24”
“Red Ruins”, 1987, oil on linen, 48”x32”
“Spirit Rising’, 1985, oil on canvas, 29”x15”
“Karmic Wheel”, 1984, oil on canvas, 28”x 18”
Sculptural Paintings and Reliefs
This collection of work is inspired by Italian Renaissance relief sculpture, William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” and divination concepts expressed in the Tarot's Major Arcana. With these sculptures I delved into various stages of the Soul’s development through its earthly journey.
“The Lovers”, 1999, mixed media (wooden box, polymer clay, joint compound, organic materials), 9”x6”x3"
“Soul Incarnate”, 1999, mixed media (oil on canvas with polymer clay, joint compound, organic materials), 12”x8”
“The Hanged Man”, 1999, mixed media (polymer clay, joint compound, organic materials on canvas), 12”x8”
“Judgement”, 1999, mixed media (oil on canvas with polymer clay, joint compound, organic materials), 13”x10”
“Family”, 1999, mixed media (oil on canvas with polymer clay, joint compound, organic material), 16”x12”
“The Deluge”, 1999, mixed media, (oil on board with polymer clay and joint compound), 20”x26”
