“Octopus Tree Pile” 2018

Oil on canvas.   Artist’s Collection.    This  tree pile was kind of a sidetrack I took to get me back Into a more expressionistic way of painting.   I wanted get back to real painting and be less tied into content.  So when this piece started to look more like tentacles than trees I […]

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“Boar” 2018

Oil and gilding on canvas, 24″ x 31″. Collection, Bill Roseberry, McLean, VA. There is this old story about wild Boar I like.  It tells much about the Japanese psyche.  It goes something like this – – Lord Nabeshima was out hunting with his men.  It was hot and dry when they came to a […]

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Untitled – 1970

Silkscreen with silver ink on paper, 20″ x 22″. Collection, Bill Roseberry, McLean, VA. Bill rescued this from somewhere. He must hav helped me print it at CCAD back in the early 70s. It must be the only extant copy! i just realized that a younger relative of this silver image would re-appear in a […]

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“Sanctuary in Green Field” 1990

Intaglio & gilding on pulp painted paper, 23” x 28”. Unknown location. Another pulp painted print done at Pyramid Atlantic – a collaboration with master paper maker Helen Frederick.

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“Sanctuary, After Giotto” 1993

Lithograph, 40” x 32” (worked & printed at RCIP).  Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking  is the place to go if you want to work in a non-traditional manner whereby you can make it up as you go.  My guru for this project was the Tamarind Masterprinter Eileen Foti.   I have some lithographic knowledge myself […]

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“Snow On Fuji” 1975

Magna on raw canvas-triptych. 72” x 72”.  Artist’s collection. I was reading Yukio Mishima and being tutored Nihongo by Tachan Ruff.  My Great Grandfathers Sword was on my mind as were various brush marks from my Kanji practice.  The pattern for this is from a Hindu silk.  The shapes  in negative formed by the white […]

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