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. 

Shells are interpreted as artistic ability, change of consciousness, emotional stability, the goddess, good fortune in relationships, good news, good outcome in legal matters, happiness near water, luck, money, rebirth, safe return, spiritual awareness...

This image just makes me happy - she is surrounded by a large circular force - numbers and a lot of energy surrounds and overlaps her. All is alright in her world.