Category: Sticks and Woodpiles

“Octopus Tree Pile” 2018

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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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“Round Pile” 1999

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Sumi ink on paper, 24” x 30”. Unknown location. One of many treepiles.  I began doing these when I moved from DC (near Chinatown) to Berryville about 3/4 hrs outside of Washington.  At that time our little town was too far away to serve as a commuter village because of the distance.  They had begun […]

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“Huddled Masses” 2001

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Newspaper collage, acrylic, acrylic medium and chalk line on canvas, 100” x 156”. Collection of the artist

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“Stewart’s Sticks” 1999

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Collaged newspaper, ink dyed news print, acrylic medium and chalk line on canvas, 103” x 288”.  Collection of the artist. Working  In The Grid Freedom through discipline. I encountered this concept in my studies of Japan and Japanese writing Kanji– but in military school I had already learned of it 1st hand. It certainly did […]

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