Project Details

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These works are representative of a fifteen-year period between the mid 1980’s and 2001. Wood panels have been my painting support since the 1980’s. I prefer the firmness of the surface to that of canvas for painting on and the opportunities for patterned embellishment and leafing on the edges. That patterning is done using leather stamping or homemade tools and is intricately designed and applied—thousands of “punches” are worked on each piece. The leafed area surrounding the central image is an integral part of the piece and provides a separation between the interior image and the outside world in much the same way as medieval artists used gold leaf as “light materialized” in the creation of icons.

For the drawings, Lenox 100 rag paper is used as the support and an ebony pencil, rather than oil paint, creates the central image. My paintings and drawings are windows that open onto a familiar, yet different view of reality and evoke a dream-like journey of the imagination. Eons have passed since the land depicted was formed and we, the viewer, can imagine all of it in one glance. What is not visibly presented in real-time is as salient and palpable as what is actually seen: the dichotomy between presence and absence and an elongation of time are explored and questioned.