Pyrotechnic Allium

3' x 3'

Oil Acrylic

This image is a bursting design set in a mandala of celebration. The stylized and speeding blossoms are isolated in a realistic and stationary way at the bottoms corners of the image.

Evil Poppy

24 x 36

Oil and Acrylic

This is a symbolic statement about Afghanistan and the connection to heroin, money, and the Taliban. In addition to the dried and harvested poppy, there are images and associations to be made with guns, tractores, kites, personalities, and words.

9/11 Amaryllis

18 x 24

Oil and Acrylic

The unusual configuration of this flower suggests patriotism, resurrection, the price of freedom, and eternal vigilance.

Columbine Tribute

24 x 30

Oil and Acrylic

An angular view of this flower allowed me to show parts that look like brooding figures. The pistel area and seeds indicate souls and survivors. In the background are images of good and evil (the perpetrators).

Crocus Africanus

18 x 24

Oil and Acrylic

I show the crocus in three views with the top view containing the dark brown outline of Africa within a face-like configuration. The crocus originates from the Mediterraneam and N. Africa area and is appr;opriate for suggesting the tribulations and possibilities for Africa's future.

Sketchpad Dandelions

3' x 4'

Oil and Acrylic

This image is a "pop" and concentric approach to that subject. It is an enlargement of a smaller sketch and suggests a Durer-like interpretation of nature and science, art and teleology.

Existential Hollyhock

24 x 36

Oil and Acrylic

The buds of the hollyhock dominate the blossom to hint at the dictum that "Existence precedes essence." The buds also show my fascination with form and pattern in flowers.

Landing Fields

18 x 24

Oil and Acrylic

What you see is a unique view of sunflowers and leaves that include a small bee at the bottom left. That bee is my whimsical way of sharing its perspective along with the Georgia O'Keefe sentiment taht "Humans should experience flowers as an insect does".

Amaryllis Exotica

24 x 48

Oil and Acrylic

This image is an imaginary interpretation of four stages in this flower's blossoming. The first bud looks like a Hindu woman and many associations can be made with religion and reincarnation.

Aging Queen Anne's Lace

24 x 30

Oil and Acrylic

This Queen Anne"s Lace is a dying flower that retains a peacock-like pattern of seeds. For me, these become the masses of humanity struggling with their faaces and bodies. A good subtitle would be Vanitas, Vanitas to indicate our earthly preoccupation with physical beauty. Neoplatonic ideas are related to this thought and hinted at in the religious gold background and emerging figurations.

Reign

3' x 4'

Oil and Acrylic

This is a lighthearted interpretation of cosmos at arious stages. One state looks like a king and the other llikea queen. Leaves become thrones and buds present images of a scepter on the left and a prince on the right. A real queen bee looks on at the splendor as rain falls in the background.

Sick Rose

24 x 30

Oil and Acrylic

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The rose image is a play on William Blake's poem. Popular imagery from botanical reality creates a tension and dialogue that raises the issues of beauty, aging, and sickness resolutions.

Royal Rage

3' x 4'

Oil and Acrylic

This flower was inspired by an exotic flower in the Conservatory at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. The anthropomorphic large flower has emotional and symbolic color in addition to a threatening gesture. Background fire and flames add to the emotion portrayed.

Victorian Tulip

11 x 14

Oil and Acrylic

The tulip is an interesting interpretation inspired by time, fashion, and attitude. The tulip becomes ornate, uptight, and emotionally repressed by virtue of colors and shapes that are symbolic of femininity as it existed during the Victorian age.

Toltec Dualities

24 x 36

Oil and Acrylics

This image is a flower idea based upon Quetzalcoatl as a myth and reality. His benificent face is within the blossom as the good leader. His name is at the top right and symbols related to him are on the right side. Contrasting deities and images are on the left and indicate historical events. The comparison of dualities, such as culture and nature, is meant to comment also on current ambiguities and paradoxes.

Tomato Tree

24 x 30

Oil and Acrylic

This is a surreal image of large tomatoes in a barren landscape. They are a connected family featuring two youthful tomatoes up front. A subtitle, despite the desert floor, would be, Be fruitful and mulitply.

Zinnia and Medusa

3' x 3'

Oil and Acrylic

I was inspired by an aging flower with a Gorgon-like head. The petals in the image become hands in various symbolic gestures while faces and figures from the myth tell the tragedy and show a hero. The sea and mermais suggest a happy story before the gods were angered.

Hermaphroditus

3' x 4'

Oil and Acrylic

What I am presenting is a mythological character of dual gender that take the form of an hermaphroditic Jack in the Pulpit. The Nyad temptress from the story can be detected in the blue sky and negative space.