Here
are photographs of some of
the paintings I've done in the past three-years; since the spring of
2002. They are all oil paintings, except for one, which is
a fresco. I don't quite
know what to say about them, except I wish I had better photographs and
plenty of detail shots. The paintings take as their subjects a
combination of interiors, still-lives, and figures. I owe a lot
to Bonnard,
Cezanne, Max Beckmann,
Stanley
Spencer, Munch,
Marsden
Hartley, and Balthus
-- and to Jim Peters.
I could go on and on
listing my influences and admirations, but I won't bore you. I guess all I'd like to add is that, for me, process is a very important part of making these paintings, and for the most part, each canvas has several versions of the same painting on it, or even is built up of layers of different paintings. In the same way, the fresco is a process, and it's out of this struggle, between an initial vision, the terrain of the canvas, and the materials and their uses, the artwork comes to life, like the birth of the Python in Ovid.
Leave any comments for me here.
Clockwise
from top-left: Untitled (Magazine), Oil on Canvas, 2004-05. Untitled
(Bathtub), Oil on Canvas, 2003. Masked Bather, Oil on Wood, 2002.
Untitled (Letter), Oil on Canvas, 2005.
Clockwise from top-left: Annunciation, Oil on Canvas, 2003-04. Annunciation (Detail). Untitled (Peeling an Orange), Fresco, 2002. Untitled (Chair), Oil on Canvas, 2003. Untitled (Room with a View), Oil on Canvas, 2002.
