Happy spring!

As we welcome brighter days and enjoy warmer weather, let's also take a moment to reflect on the significance of this time of year. New beginnings, fresh connections, a time to shake off the old and embrace possibilities.

In the spirit of celebrating all things new, I am excited to announce Spring Forward, a collection celebrating the emotion and colors of the season.

And in the name of moving things forward, we have committed a portion of the proceeds from this collection to ARK, an organization that aims to solve hunger for good and creates self-sustaining paths with rural communities in the Philippines.

Explore a world dazzling with light and exploding with energy with the Lightscapes collection. This series of expressionist paintings celebrates the transformative power of light, capturing its essence with bursts of brushstrokes, translucent splashes and iridescent sprays. Envelop yourself in the aura of each piece, partake in the play between shimmer and shadow, and bask in the brilliance and intensity of light in all its glorious shapes, colors and forms.

Growing up, I never really had a favorite color. To this date, many decades later, and even as a professional artist, I still do not have one. 

Yet there is one color that has intrigued my imagination more than others. I honestly cannot explain what draws me, quite mysteriously, to this color. So I invite you, in the next few pages, to simply experience and enjoy the energy, exuberance and enigma that is red.

The Colorscapes collection broadens and expands on the energetic and powerful Red series. I used this signature color to springboard into "studies" of textured abstract paintings, most employing only one hue or color, but every single one a pure exploration and dissection of color and texture.

These Colorscapes seek to push the boundaries of my abstractions to greater realms, and elevate my appreciation of color, texture and movement towards a higher plane.

The Waterscapes aim to capture the ephemeral, ever-moving, and often elusive shape of water. With a minimalist aesthetic, these paintings are expressionist in their execution and feature an abundance of texture. Through the use of color and form, each painting embodies depth, movement, fluidity and flow. The focus on simplicity and texture results in a body of work that is both peaceful and powerful, inviting the viewer in the same instant to wade into the delicate beauty, or dive into the flowing energy, of this essential force of nature.

I began experimenting with art in 2003 as an impressionist, admiring the work of so many brilliant artists of that movement. Though abstract expressionism defines much of my recent work, every piece in this collection is a homecoming to my “impressionist roots,” a welcome opportunity to refuel with nostalgic inspiration and to reawaken the joy that inspired me to pick up a brush from the very beginning.

A straight, narrow line. Flat, constant and serene.

Yet, the most riveting part of painting a seascape is the horizon. The horizon ruptures the canvas, delineates the boundary between darkness and light, hinges heaven and earth.

Being able to capture the horizon amidst the quiet turmoil of the sea and the swirling stillness of the sky can sometimes be an exercise in futility, but always a privilege—as a painter—that I do not take for granted.

“Everything Is Art“ is a group of textured, abstract and expressionist Colorscapes embracing, for the first time, elements of urban art. This freewheeling expression of the theme of the ubiquity of art is my latest exploration of the nexus of the symbolic and the literal, of the tactile and the pictorial, and of the urban and the urbane.

Art is everywhere—not just in a museum, but out in the streets, around us, and even within us. Each of the works in this collection carries carefully curated words, all containing “art,” to denote art’s presence in seemingly unrelated aspects of our daily routines. The words remind us that whichever way we look, art is in every facet of our experience.

Adding body, literally, to this theme is the use of heavy impasto that gives each piece a distinctive physical definition, with the undulations of the surface imparting another layer of fascination—a graffiti of light and shadow across the landscape of each canvas.

We are of the earth and the sea. As we emerge from the “canvas of our being,“ we figuratively push the horizon down to begin to experience the insubstantial sky. We reach out to this transcendent space but we cannot grasp it; yet at our core we are relentlessly driven to move towards it.

My Seascapes describe the space of origin, employing color and texture in new and daringly unconventional ways, reflecting the different fabrics of time and reality. The horizon defines the tension between the sea and the sky, between earth and heaven. Flat and constant, the horizon is the serene arbiter between darkness and light, both the seam and seamless connection between the two, riveting our attention to what is temporal and what is infinite.

These Skyscapes break out into the dimension of air, literally, as these are all executed on unprimed linen, possessing an inherent translucence, with some areas layered so thinly with the medium as to seem unfinished, evocative of an unfulfilled yearning, a seeking of completion, edges with no end.

Each of us exists in our own separate seascape. Through my art, I hope to call everyone to the task of always going beyond, to transcend the horizon and to reach the skyscape of one’s own, and one’s own only. For if ever we succeed in this quest, even if only for a fleeting moment, we will find ourselves…boundless.

New collection of abstract seascapes
24” x 24” (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
acrylic on wood panel

⬜ selected pieces in resin/polished resin

🔷 animated tiles are modular paintings that may be rotated 180 degrees

Available unless noted with 🔴 or ⚫
Starting at $1250 (click here to request pricing information)