larger works

 

Above, "Pirate Circus"  is one of my Battle Banners series . 78"x58", it's constructed quite traditionally - machine pieced, hand dyed cotton muslin and damasks over a lightweight cotton batting and backing and then machine quilted. It was painted with both Setacolor and Jacquard textile paints.

"Front Runner"

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Spooky Storys (NA)

Blue Wave 2020

Babel

 

2021.    28x20 unmounted         

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Night Gardener

2020.  32x19     unmounted   


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The bruised heart 2020

 

16x20 permanently mounted on stretched canvas  

Savage Land

18x24  permanently mounted to canvas  2020    

 

"Grand Rêver"

 

  "Grand Rêver"    29X27       2012       

  

The biggest and last of the series. Some history here, here, and here.

   

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Demons Dance

Demons Dance    2016    18.5x17     

Rêver 1, 2, 3, 4

Rêver  1     2011    18x18      SOLD

Taken by the Night

Taken by the Night    2010     14x12    

the All Seeing Eye

the All-Seeing Eye        2012   14.4x14     unmounted  

Pastoral

Pastoral    2012   25x13      100.00

Squadron

Squadron     2016      18x17.5        unmounted   250.00

The Stars out of Place

2010      19x17  unmounted    

"The Stars out of Place" was finished in the spring of 2010.  It was inspired by a nightmare, the kind that is so real that you wake up in a cold sweat gasping for air.

I was almost nine when Sputnik was launched and we had a neighbor who let us lie on the roof of their screen porch at night and watch that tin star crawl across the night sky while we bounced back and forth between AM radio bands listening to Murry the K or Scott Muni.

It all seemed pretty benign to me and I didn't understand how some adults perceived this to be some kind of threat from the Russians. That all became clear to me after I read "Hiroshima" later that year. That damn book sure took all the fun out of Godzilla.

Still, I became a night sky watcher for the beauty of it and became intimately familiar with the locations of the heavenly bodies and the names of all the constellations. Total immersion in the Zodiac soon followed.

In my nightmare, I went outside on a crisp winter evening and looked up to find the stars all jumbled and the moon full and leering, too close, in the wrong quarter of the sky and shedding wisps of pink poisonous-looking gases.  The air was too thin and tasted metallic. I closed my eyes so hard they hurt, woke up in sudden disorientation, and willed myself awake for the rest of a long night. Despite my best efforts to forget, it was a keeper.

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