The Dreams

MIXED MEDIA / 2005-2006

Bottles, jars, boxes; wrapped up, tied up, falling loose. Inquisitive birds here and there. What’s behind the picket fence? An angry sky or folded canvas? What’s in the barn? What is inside?

In this body of work I tackle my dreams. While much of my work is expressed on a light, more ethereal background, this work is done almost entirely against a dark, yet rich, earthy ground. The light in my other works typify my tendency to ponder more than to experience. But here the dark encaustic surface has a more-grounded presence (yet still not “real”). Layered in numerous glazes in oils and burned into the wax, there is a mysterious, dreamlike quality to these works.

Dreams, for me, are interconnected with my waking state of “reality.” They are bound together with the images of life interconnected with hopes, fears, and imaginations of the persistent overactive mental state that is unavoidably real to an artist. The subjects are not all the result of sleeping dreams, but they characterize a dreamlike state that exists when one is creating. The dramatic lights and darks typical in the artist’s dream state bring an energy and seriousness to this work, which has, as a result of the palette, an almost old-world feeling.

"Dream 138"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
80"X 36 "
2005

"Dream 136 " sold
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
80"X 36 "
2005

"Dream 137 " sold
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
80"X 36 "
2005

"Dream 139"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
80"X 36 "
2005

"Dream 124" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
80"X 36 "
2005

Dream 148" sold
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 48 "
2005

Dream 147" sold
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 48 "
2005

"Dream 113" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
60"X 48 "
2005

"Dream 132" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
60"X 48 "
2005

"Dream 114" SOLD "Dream 127"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
60"X 48 " each
2005

"Dream 116" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 48 "
2005

"Dream 112" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
30"X 80 "
2005

Dream 110"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
24"X 80 "
2005

Dream 111" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
24"X 80 "
2005

Dream 128" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
24"X 48 "
2005

Dream 125"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 36 "
2005

"Dream 102" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
36" X 80 "
2005

"Dream 103" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
36" X 80 "
2005

"Dream 104" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
36" X 80 "
2005

"Dream105" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
36" X 40 "
2005

"Dream106" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
36" X 40 "
2005

"Dream 107" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
36" X 40 "
2005

"Dream 108" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
24" X 48 "
2005

"Krispy Kreme Dreams " SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
Installation of 23 panels from 5" X 5" to 16" X 20" Sold together
2005

"Dream109" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics and Oils on Panel
8" X 8"
2005

Dream 122"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
36"X 48 "
2005

"Dream 126" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 36 "
2005

"Dream 130" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 24"
2005

"Dream 140, 141 and 142" All are sold
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
36"X 12 " each
2005

Dream 117"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
48"X 48 "
2005

"Dream 133"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
40"X 30 "
2005

"Dream 146" SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
12"X 36"
2005

"Dream 149 and 150 " SOLD
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
24"X 24 " each
2005

"Dream 134 and 135 " SOLD (both)
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
24"X 24 " each
2005

"Dream 144 and 145 "
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
24"X 24 " each
2005

Dream 143"
Mixed Media - Photo, Encaustics, Oils on Panel
32"X 24 "
2005