2022/23 – NEW WORK – SINGLE PAINTINGS

2022/23 – NEW WORK – SINGLE PAINTINGS

2022/23 – NEW WORK – SINGLE PAINTINGS About the Paintings These are individual pieces. Although I generally paint in series, I do paint one-offs. This painting is of my father Roland whose mother died from tuberculosis when he was just shy of three years...
New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871

New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871

New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871 About the Series This series marked my return to the figurative narrative. My evolution from being a decorative painter to a declarative one continued with my America’s Guernica: Greenwood and Charity Ann: Gone! with...
AMERICA’S GUERNICA: Greenwood

AMERICA’S GUERNICA: Greenwood

AMERICA’S GUERNICA: Greenwood About the Series The ten-painting America’s Guernica: Greenwood series commemorates the atrocity of the incident known by several names, the Tulsa Massacre and. the Black Wall Street Massacre to name just two. The paintings...
CHARITY ANN: Gone!

CHARITY ANN: Gone!

CHARITY ANN: Gone! About the Series The Charity Ann Series revisits my wife’s enslaved third great-grandmother’s heartbreaking day when her two daughters were sold away from her. We do not know the third great-grandmother’s name or one of the...
CHILDREN OF A COMMON CREATOR: Deathless Spirits

CHILDREN OF A COMMON CREATOR: Deathless Spirits

CHILDREN OF A COMMON CREATOR: Deathless Spirits About the Series This triptych is based on Chapter 87, The Grand Armada, of Herman Melville’s, Moby Dick; or The Whale. It depicts my interpretation of the struggle between man and his nature with a more...