Acrylic & Collage on Panel
20" x 20"

The vertical lines are an uncurrent of this entire show - I see them everywhere and these pieces are my current “landscape” interpretation.

Acrylic on Canvas
30" x 30"

The conch shell emerging from the dark and into the light is almost like a figure or a butterfly metamorphosing into what it is meant to be. 

Acrylic on Canvas
24" x 36" 

Salt and pepper is a recurring theme over the years - It represents the light and the dark, the conscious and the unconscious - being awake or being asleep. 

Oil on Panel
30" x 30" 

The circles came after the conch shells - they represent a simplicity and acceptance and continuum of all that is. 

Oil on Panel
48" x 72"

The idea of doing what you did as a child has interested me of late.  Like swinging on a swing gives me a sense of timelessness or doing a cart wheel and turning my world upside down. 

Oil on Panel
48" x 72"

This piece began more in the light being the mirror image to “More 1”.   It has some of my ‘ten commandments’ written on it… More water, More connection, More laughter.  I guess you really need to ask for what you want  in order for the universe to deliver. 

Oil on Panel
48" x 72"

This piece has gone through many transformations and layers - it represents my own transition from darkness into light.  Sometimes it is a daily journey.  I try not to question - just accept.

Ode to the abstract expressionist - Franz Kline - born and buried in Wilkes-Barre, Pa - he did large black and white masterpieces. Because he did, I can - and that’s how it works. 

 There is a swimmer in this painting, amongst numbers - swimming through and making it’s way - protected, guided and eternally loved. 

And even though this safety pin in closed - it seems to know when to open, and it seems to be very content and peaced out in the field of red and orange and purple. 

The open safety pin - Open is so much better then closed.
 

The fuchsia color in this painting is a new color for me - but I love it. It’s the perfect combination of red and blue. It shows squares with numbers and then a very thick white circle in oil paint. 

Salt - the light to the dark pepper.  

Black pepper represents the dark - the shadow. My uncle says we wouldn’t know the light without the dark. 

I can feel a cartwheel somewhere in the recesses of my body….- but I have not done one in a long time…. I think I need to put it on my “to-do list”. 

The number 45 - my age. I am very aware of the age you are when something ‘Big’ happens in your life. I feel we hold numbers in our bodies and have a visceral response to them. When I hear 9/11 - something shifts...

Another figure with the arms up receiving the dopamine... she’s swirling, twirling and completely in the moment where there are no problems.

The words “I Love You” - feel so good to hear - yet could you ever fully articulate what they mean?

I am interested in the push and pull of the foreground and the background. In a spiritual sense, I think of it as the push and pull between the ego and spirit - or the conscious and the unconscious.
In this image of the bottle --- the background is taking over.  

This image came from an old photograph by Rudolf Kopppitz (1884-1936) Motion Study. It inspired the large paintings that will be shown at Marquis in Scranton often times many graphite works precede my paintings. I do a drawing a day - I love it.