Gallery 4 – Interiors, Figures & Other Subjects

"Marilyn's Hollyhocks"
8x6" oil - available - #1428
"Marilyn's Hollyhocks" <br /> 8x6" oil - available - #1428 "It's Only Wood Vibrating" <br /> full size violin, oil painted - Auctioned at the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra on June 7, 2008 - #808 <br /> Here you have an actual painted violin (both sides) conveying something of the beauty of Appalachia in two seasons. The title is meant to raise a question about what music actually is. My daughter Fiona, on the reverse side, joins the music of the spheres in the nearby Blue Ridge mountains. "Oh the Goodness of the World" <br /> 18x24" oil - sold- #1704 <br /> This painting seems to be about several connected things. It’s obviously about the human female form in dance, in light. It’s also about how beauty in the human tends toward worship. This is no surprise within the Judeo-Christian belief that humans are made in the image of God, and that beauty in the human best leads toward gratitude and the worship of the transcendent Creator God, beyond the ephemeral (like flowers) and momentary human beauty. Also here, something of the marvelous fact that because women exist (and that they are beautiful) we have abundant proof that God loves the world. "Desert Dawn" <br /> 18x24" oil - possibly available - #1305 <br />Big Bend Nat'l Park in West Texas. "Shenandoah Sundown in Autumn"<br /> 18x24" oil --available-- #914 "Rocky Mountain Forest" <br /> 7.5x9.5" oil - available - #1821 <br /> "Aspen, Taos Pass" <br /> 12x16" oil - available - #1702 <br /> Here we have an older brushy approach to my subject. Begun in the 1980s and recently competed. "April Blooming" <br /> 12x16" oil - available - #2323 <br /> A corner of the St. Louis Botanical Gardens. "Ivy Creek Overlook" <br /> Shenandoah Nat'l Park <br /> 12x16" oil --available-- #1320 "Shenandoah Atmosphere" <br /> 20x24" oil - sold- #2108 <br />Overlooking the Great Valley in Virginia. "In the Morning Sun" <br /> 18x24" oil - sold/commissioned - #2103 <br /> A commisioned piece, overlooking the James River in Virginia. "California Redwood Forest" <br /> 11x12" oil - available - #1810 <br /> One of the big ones, a sketch done in northern California. "Taos Adobe" <br /> 9x12" oil on canvas- available - #2326 <br /> One of my earliest paintings of a Taos adobe home. "Dancer in Red" <br /> 12x9" oil - sold - #1817 <br /> Capturing form, balance, and movement in sunlight.. "Afternoon Reverie" <br /> 10x12" oil - available - #1909 <br /> Friends in conversation beside the New River in SW Virginia.