This is a still from my son's animation video which is showing with my paintings at Gem Gallery on Peaks Island, Maine. Jackman is a very recent graduate of RISD in printmaking. This is his first animation. The opening was super well attended, including Aris Moore from our program. Thanks baby! More to come......

these are not new. and I'm not even sure if they still exist. A lot of resin in this group......way too shiney.

Just another old fashioned love song.

Silver dipped ghost leaves, wax, resin, plaster, graphite, sign paint, oil paint wood and measuring

This painting is called Smoke and Mirrors. It is from 2009 but I don't think I ever posted it.  It happened like this........Another painting sat in the back of Carol's car for two weeks in January. A very cold January. When I retrieved the painting from the car, it had cracked. I cracked the whole painting off the panel and turned the chunks of wax around. Inside out so to speak. Every mark I had made in painting that painting was revealed to me in the underside. 

I cut all the scraps into two inch squares and waxed them back down onto a new surface inside out. Very sculptural. It now lives in Palo Alto, California.

the starting point

I am posting these images as a starting point for viewing what happens next. 

My plan is to take some of what is going on in the paper bags pieces and incorporate it in with some of the goings on in what I am posting now.

The residency ended a week ago. Quite an intellectually intoxicating experience! I haven't had one of those in some time. My summary is almost ready to draft. The beach is a good place to write. My mind has been reeling with new ideas....well not really new just shifted.

Jackman and I are having a show together at the Gem Gallery on Peaks Island. The show will hang for only one week starting July 15th. We are having a reception from 5-8 on Saturday July 17th.  The show will be titled KIN, because that's what we are.  I will try to post some of his work soon. Blogging is not easy for me yet.

Like for instance, I just uploaded  the top image and I thought the text would wrap around but instead it jumped to the side, whatever.

So the text continues down and the images go up.