Oil on copper, 6” x 8”. Unknown location. My dear friend Bill Roseberry painted a number of pears and other fruits back in the 80s.  For sure I had one of his images lingering in my mind when I painted this on a  little piece of roofing copper.  “By your students you are taught”.   […]

Oil on copper, 8 1/2” x 11”. Unknown location.

Oil on copper, 8 1/2” x 11”. Unknown location.

Oil on copper, 8 1/2” x 11”. Unknown location.

Oil on multiple wood panels, 64” x 120”. Artist’s collection. As you may know by now whenever I have the opportunity to paint a structure I won’t pass it by. After moving out of DC to Berryville VA I began painting my ecological series “The Berryville Treepikes”.   Included were a few farm buildings that […]

Oil on multiple wood panels, 32” x 60” Private collection.

Oil on canvas, 84” x 96”. Artist’s collection. The chicken coups were inspired by the famous photo wreckage of a bus in El Salvador The bus carrying a group of nuns returning from the city after shopping for food.  They had all been raped and murdered.  Later I got the idea of painting a cage […]

Magna on raw canvas, 84” x 72”.  Stolen – unknown location. I copied the crane pattern from a Noh Hunting kimono that was exhibited at the Smithsonian. It was in the basement at West Virginia University when thieves broke in and cut it off the stretchers.   Never seen since 1977.