retrospective: Spartina Series (2006 and continuing)
"Spartina" is a meditation series.
I have worked with landscape, especially Cape Cod landscape, for many years. My new series of paintings represents a focusing in on the grasses which grow mostly by the water's edge, and in water.
These grasses are a metaphor for ways in which we contend with the rich variety of events in our lives. Year after year, these grasses go through transformations. They are nature at its deepest core; blown by winds, warmed by sun, they live, die, and regenerate, weathering harsh or gentle realities of the changing seasons.
A Breeze Came By
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Animated in Purples
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Chaos
oil on wood
15" x 15"
East Hill Grasses
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Grasses on the Pamet
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Meadow of Grasses
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Queen Ann's Lace
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Soft Dune Grasses
oil on canvas
24" x 24"
Feathergrasses at Water's Edge
oil on canvas
20" x 20"
Blowing in the Wind II
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Stormy Purple Skies
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Dune Grasses II
oil on wood
15" x 15"
LightHearted
oil on canvas
10" x 10"
Surprise Orange
oil on canvas
10" x 10"
Tranquil Thoughts
oil on canvas
10" x 10"
Myriad Grasses in Gold 4
oil on canvas
10" x 10" each
(Installation with string, 25" x 25")
Blades of Grass in a Blue Sky
oil on canvas
26" x 20"
Myriad of Grasses I
oil on paper
28" x 28"
Myriad of Grasses II
oil on paper
28" x 28"
Myriad of Grasses III “In a Wind”
Oil on Paper, 28" x 28"
Framed: 35 x 35
Myriad of Grasses IV “Untamed”
Oil on Paper, 28" x 28"
Framed: 35" x 35"
Myriad of Grasses V “At Water’s Edge”
Oil on Paper, 28" x 28"
Framed: 35" x 35"
Myriad of Grasses VI “Fence Post”
Oil on Paper, 28" x 28"
Framed: 35" x 35"
Myriad of Grasses VII “Reeds”
Oil on Canvas
30" x 30"
Myriad of Grasses VIII “Intervals”
Oil on Canvas
30" x 30"
Myriad of Grasses IX “Echo”
Oil on Canvas
30" x 30"
Myriad of Grasses “Purple Skies – 4”
Oil on Wood Panels
15" x 15" each (All, 30" x 30")
“Mini Grasses – 4”
Oil on Canvas
10" x 10" each (All, 20" x 20")
“Spartina”
Oil on Canvas
36" x 40"
“Meditation”
Oil on Canvas
44" x 54"
“Orange Skies”
Oil on Canvas
44" x 54"
“Feathergrasses”
Oil on Canvas
36" x 36"
“Reflection”
Oil on Canvas
30" x 40"
Cape Cod Grasses 1, 2, 3, 4
oil on wood panels
15" x 15" each
Beach Grasses #5
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Grey Beach Grasses 1
oil on wood
15" x 15"
Linear Landscape Abstraction - Empty Room Series - Italian Wall Series
Abstract Landscape - Landscape/Garden Series - Black and White Series
Cow Series - Early Cape Cod Series - Early Country Series
Country and Cape Cod Landscapes - Spartina Series
Current Work