PARTICULARS STUDIO

Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
24" X 36" X 1.5"

In a quiet moment of realization, it becomes clear that what defines one's sense of personal power is a set of mostly self-imposed restrictions. To accept ourselves as largely unfettered and limitless, is to be liberated from expectation. Only then can we truly think outside the box...

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Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 40" X 1.5"

The connection between man and nature is a true constant. The structure of exotic plants, the outline of animal elements - all powerfully echoed in the varied shapes of our body parts.

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
48" X 30" X 1.5"

Popular Seattle bridge, spanning Portage Bay. It links the University District with the neighborhoods of Eastlake and Capitol Hill.

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Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
16" X 40" X 1.5"

What matters most is what something is - not what it's called. Shakespeare had it right; a rose by any other name could never be anything but sweet.

NOTE: This composition has a dark band at the top of the painting

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
30" X 30" X 2.0"

Learning who we are is quite the journey. Dare to seek - and ye shall find....a magical journey indeed.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 30" X 2"

Sometimes we can feel like an outside observer in life, unable to participate in the good times and happy experiences we perceive others around us are enjoying. We might feel helpless to find a way in to that world, to be included, to be part of the party....and in our isolation, we oftentimes miss seeing the door....

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Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
6" X 18" X 2"

Awareness of one's own mind is both a complex and simple thing; "what" we think is simple enough, but understanding "where" the thoughts originate from.....well......that's a more complex matter.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
8" X 8" X 2.0"

Curiosity is playful and colorful by definition; the mind is always searching for pattern and relationship.

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Acrylic, Oil & Ink on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
30" X 48" X 1.5"

There's an ethereal quality to nature's balancing act, an indescribable force standing guard over our environment. Perhaps this guardianship is responsible for the way in which the earth miraculously heals itself, despite man's doings in the world...

Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Canvas
Installed within a black floater frame
60" X 48" X 1.5"

We use the word “fathom” to measure the depth of water, but also as way to express comprehension of a thing. Tidal pool water reflects a world within a world, with every crevice brimming with color and life, seemingly unaware of anything outside its sheltered reality. Little to measure in terms of depth perhaps, but to comprehend such a profound and mesmerizing feature, a thing of philosophy indeed.

Acrylic, Ink & Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
48" X 30" X 1.5"

I came upon her in the deepest woods...surrounded by living green, her stance unwavering and rooted to the ground, although she no longer had any. Utterly feminine, a force to be reckoned with. She wasn't going anywhere...

Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 40" X 1.5"

A swagger in his posture, I fell instantly in love with him, his confidence and virility an irrefutable fact. An entranced state made invisible the truth of sharp and thorny barbs. Not even the hazards of love would deter me from a path I knew I would take.

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
Installed within a black floater frame
20" X 20" X 1.25"

In the quiet hours, there are moments of realization about the simplicity of things. The hustle and bustle of the day dissolves into memory, and we feel our shoulders relax a little...our breath deepening and lengthening in time with the shortening of the day. And there it is - another day ending. But did we stop to notice the color of its passing?

Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Canvas
Installed within a black floater frame
48" X 60" X 1.5"

Woodstock Farm is a gem of a city park, located on Chuckanut Drive in Bellingham, overlooking Bellingham Bay. It's a great place to bird-watch, and is the site for annual bird surveys, conducted by the Audubon society.

Acrylic and Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
18" X 24" X 1.5"

Within each of us lies a hidden sanctuary...a private place where we can feel safe enough to bare our souls. Free from judgment, unspoken expectations...we find quiet refuge in the warmth of ourselves.

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Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Prepared Masonite Board
Diptych, 2 individual panels, each sized 24" x 24" x 1.25
Installed within separate silver metallic frames (2 total)
24" X 48" X 1.25" finished size

Transitions between man-made and nature-made reference points at Woodstock Farm Park in Bellingham, WA, are a feast for the eyes.

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Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Canvas
Installed within a black floater frame
12" X 24" X 1.25"

Woodstock Farm is a gem of a city park, located on Chuckanut Drive in Bellingham, overlooking Bellingham Bay. It's a great place to bird-watch, and is the site for annual bird surveys, conducted by the Audubon society.

Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Canvas
Diptych, 2 individual panels, each sized 20" x 20" x 1.5
Installed within 2 separate black floater frames
21.5" X 43" X 1.5" finished size

Like a theatrical backdrop, a veritable midsummer night’s dream. Waves of plum and heliotrope envelop the Bellingham landscape, as day turns into night and mountains melt into the darkness.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
30" X 30" X 2.0"

How is a human heart like a bleeding heart? Elegant, sensual - and wide open if you touch either one just so....

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
Diptych, 2 panels, each sized 20" x 20"
Installed within 2 individual black floater frames
43" X 21.5" X 1.25" finished size

Summer evenings splash the landscape like no other time of the year, with an amethyst stroke, a palette of tranquil hues makes us fall in love with the world. The promise of a period of happiness, success, and fulfillment is in the air, like a song on the lips. But if I know a song of the world, does the world know a song of me?

Composition can be hung together as shown or separately.

Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Canvas
Triptych, 3 individual panels, each sized 20" x 20"
Installed within 3 separate black canvas floater frames
63" X 21.5" X 1.5" finished size

Resolving differences is seldom straightforward; it's an often messy and disjointed process, with fragments of discord remaining, even when peace is finally restored.

Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
36" X 48" X 1.5"

A dramatic change in landscape draws the eye, but it’s the appearance of sudden radiant light that reveals to the soul the great beauty, spirituality, and magnificence of natural phenomena. Such moments of realization are transcendent - beyond category, beyond the limits of experience. Sand is not just sand, rocks are not just rocks. The femininity of nature is irrefutable.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
18" X 24" X 1.5"

Patterning throughout nature acts as a connective tissue between disparate things. The potential of creation lies dormant within the allium bulb, an inference of possibility and all that might be. The power to become is the real magic; what nudges a thing into being?

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
30" X 30" X 2.0"

Organic sand designs, dappled with sea foam patterns and littered with driftwood, suggest male and female body parts.

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Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
2 panels, each sized 12" x 12"
12" X 24" X 1.5" finished size

The yearning to rise, to soar....the tendency to sink and retreat from what's unknown.... Confidence and belief in ourselves mends the fissure between these two states of mind.

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
48" X 30" X 1.5"

There is no better painter than Nature; tidal surges render any stretch of beach, an instant canvas...

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Acrylic and Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
4 panels, each sized 12" x 12"
12" X 48" X 1.5" finished size

Summertime...and the living is easy...a kaleidoscope of whimsy and color, and the return to leisurely pleasures! Enjoy it now - but don't hope for it to stay; eventually comes the grey...fading away all memory of indian summer.

Acrylic, Mixed Papers & Ink on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
80" X 28" X 1.5"

Complex ideas such as "The Big Bang Theory" are commonly discussed and generally understood, but only fundamentally grasped by specialists - not the common man. Similarly, the notion of economy and wealth are fleeting concepts brokered by the elite on Wall Street and Capitol Hill. In these difficult times, as Boardwalk and Park Place crumble, ensnaring many, the middle class keeps drawing cards from a hopelessly stacked deck. They cling to their lives on Illinois or St. James Place, hopeful that their street of dreams is real and not simply part of The Big Game.

Acrylic/Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional, But Not Required)
48" X 36" X 1.5"

The life we aspire to build for ourselves is often also a cage of our own making; because the mind craves structure and meaning in order to make sense out of a seemingly disordered and chaotic world, we rely on relationships and related identities to understand our place in the big scheme of things - to realize a sense of community, identity, belonging.

But what begins in earnest can sometimes take on a life of its own - a life not necessarily envisioned by our internal selves. The weight and circumstance of resulting life, architected and evolved by each in turn, can leave the spirit feeling trapped and burdened. We long to fly away, but are held fast by responsibilities and obligations.

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Oil, Acrylic & Rice Paper on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
12" X 12" X 1.5"

Urban scenes are landscapes too; abstracting them reduces their complexity to form and color - a simplicity the mind intuits easily.

Acrylic/Mixed Media on Canvas Panel
Bronze Metallic Frame
18" X 24" X 1.0"

A rich and ever-changing pattern - the subtleties of conversation, of touch, of thought.

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Acrylic & Ink on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
12" X 36" X 1.5"

A crack or a crevice in a rock can give rise to seductive creatures.

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Oil & Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
8" X 24" X 1.5"

Hope - an ephemeral stream of human consciousness. My cup runneth over....

Oil & Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
Sides painted black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
30" X 40" X 1.5"

The sensuality of nature causes a ripple effect in the sub-conscious - we know it for what it is: a mirror image of the self as a sensual being.

Acrylic/Mixed Media on Canvas Panel
Bronze Metallic Frame
18" X 24" X 1.0"

A rich and ever-changing pattern - the subtleties of conversation, of touch, of thought.

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Oil on Wood
Sides painted black
(Framing Not Required)
6" X 24" X 2"

Not all journeys end somewhere; sometimes we really are just meant to pass through.....

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
6" X 6" X 2"

Some days have a surprisingly magical feel to them - where wonder and amusement abound, the day's journey is a blissful ride.

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Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 30" X 2"

A subtle aspect or quality..... illusive yet beckoning.

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Oil Pastel on Watercolor Paper
Mounted on Hardboard
(Framing Optional)
9" X 12" X .25"

Storms can be riveting, humbling, imbued with steel in their ferocity. The power of natural forces....how would it be if we were so....?

Individual character can be every bit as strong as steel, the rumblings of anger, our human thunder...

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Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 40" X 1.5"

We often talk of life in terms of water, using figures of speech to communicate and describe processes of deep emotional experience. Encouraged to "go with the flow", to resist less the forces in our lives - human nature is instinctively programmed to rail against limitation, to defy odds. We rise to the test, resolute in the belief that we can fight our way through impossibility.

Oil On Stretched Canvas
Framed, German Silver Metallic
12" X 24" X 1.5"

Of or relating to the open ocean.....the "new world" surely.

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Mixed Media on Canvas
Acrylic, Assorted Papers, Natural Fibers
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
20" X 16" X 1.5"

When a woman feels the drive to start a family and "lay down roots", people jokingly say she's feeling "broody". It's a biological urge, and when upon us, we sometimes make that home in haste, not considering the foundations of the union, the impact of parenthood, the changes both will bring to our freedom and array of choices. The safety we imagine in the family "unit" is a metaphor on several levels, but we don't always see things for what they really are.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Not Required)
6" X 12" X .2.0"

Once in a dream.....I spied a crane that embodied my mortal soul....

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Oil on Masonite Board
4 Panels, each sized 12" X 12"
Each Individually Framed, Brushed Silver Metallic
12" X 48" X .75" (Finished Size)

Latitude means freedom from limitations; the beauty of this piece, inspired by landscape, is that it can be oriented in a variety of ways, and still be aesthetically pleasing.

That's the thing about nature..... we never get tired of looking at it, regardless of orientation.

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Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
24" X 36" X 1.5"

How often the word "I" creeps into conversation, asserting itself with casual disregard for other pronouns. This redirection toward self changes the balance of things. We focus less on what others contribute - being only partially involved in the exchange. Egotism and self-involvement can render even the most sentient of us deaf, dumb, and blind.

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Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
12" X 12" X 1.5"

Summertime…and the living is easy…a kaleidoscope of whimsy and color, and the return to leisurely pleasures! Enjoy it now - but don't hope for it to stay; eventually comes the grey…fading away all memory of indian summer.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
12" X 12" X 1.5"

Summertime…and the living is easy…a kaleidoscope of whimsy and color, and the return to leisurely pleasures! Enjoy it now - but don't hope for it to stay; eventually comes the grey…fading away all memory of indian summer.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
12" X 12" X 1.5"

Summertime…and the living is easy…a kaleidoscope of whimsy and color, and the return to leisurely pleasures! Enjoy it now - but don't hope for it to stay; eventually comes the grey…fading away all memory of indian summer.

Oil on Wood
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
12" X 12" X 1.5"

Summertime…and the living is easy…a kaleidoscope of whimsy and color, and the return to leisurely pleasures! Enjoy it now - but don't hope for it to stay; eventually comes the grey…fading away all memory of indian summer.