The paintings are arranged roughly from latest to earliest. - B
"2012"
96"w x 60"h acrylic on canvas, 2012
"A year of turmoil - in the country, in myself - endings, beginnings -
and where is the shoreline?"
"A year of turmoil - in the country, in myself - endings, beginnings -
and where is the shoreline?"
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The Sword and Shield of Phi Delta Theta
36"w x 42"h acrylic on canvas, 2010
Owner: Indiana Gamma Chapter, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
The Fish Pond
36"w x 30"h acrylic on canvas, 2008
Commissioned by Carolyn Lacy
Headboard 60'w x 15"h acrylic on canvas, 2008
"Just lolling in bed, loving it - make it up your way."
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Sleeping 12"w x 12"h acrylic on canvas, 2007
My Florida 42"w x 42"h acrylic on canvas, 2005
Commissioned by Dick Stohler
Orgasm36"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2005
"Does this need explanation?"
Owner: Valerie Andrew
Irrigating My Soul 36"w x 60"h acrylic on canvas, 2005
Owner: Marianne Shiver
Rise of the Warrior Spirit 60"w x 48"h acrylic on canvas, 2005
"Enough of the flowers and flo',
This is happening 'cause I said so."
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Wings or Spine? 36"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"Who am I today? Shall I stand for something or take flight?"
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The Primal Past
60" x 72" acrylic on canvas, 2004
"The passion is there; you can handle it."
Saltair
24"w x 18"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
The Primal Past 60" x 72" acrylic on canvas, 2004
"The passion is there; you can handle it."
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Life Drained by Unchosen Shoulds
48"w x 60"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"Hell - Living life without the fuel of one's values."
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Life Drained by Unchosen Shoulds 48"w x 60"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"Hell - Living life without the fuel of one's values."
Saltair 24"w x 18"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
Owner: Ms. Marilyn Stohler
This has me think of the mixture of light (air) on water and water in the air - thus the phenomenon of saltair, the mixture of ocean's salty humidity in the air over the land next to the ocean. - B
The Aftermath 30"w x 9"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"Silence and blood - what's left after the fight you had to have."
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This painting was inspired when friends were on safari in Tanzania. They told a story of staying at an encampment on the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater. The crater itself is no place for humans. It is a habit for all the wild animals of the region. Camping on the edge of the crater, one cannot go to the restroom without an armed guard. The painting conveys a sense of the threat to a human that this pristine crater represents. Violent death is a fact of life here. This is the silent aftermath. - B
This painting was inspired when friends were on safari in Tanzania. They told a story of staying at an encampment on the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater. The crater itself is no place for humans. It is a habit for all the wild animals of the region. Camping on the edge of the crater, one cannot go to the restroom without an armed guard. The painting conveys a sense of the threat to a human that this pristine crater represents. Violent death is a fact of life here. This is the silent aftermath. - B
The Rich Life 48"w x 60"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"Life is good, rich and abundant. I'm grateful for its beauty."
I'm Excited 24"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"I'm like this inside sometimes. So much to live for."
Owner: Dr. Carlos Franco
Searching for Center 30"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"Everything is magnetized from the center. But what is that?"
Owner: Theresa Barber
Midnight Dancers 48"w x 60"h acrylic on canvas, 2004
"The beauty of a leaping line in moonlight - all mystery and wonder."
Owner: Mr. & Mrs. Richard Stohler
Water Bearer 12"w x 9"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"Ah, yes. Something can quench my thirst."
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Wisdom 54"w x 54"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"The life of an initiated conversation - by one's own will, leaping into the unknown."
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This painting was created while assisting at the Wisdom Course, a course offered by Landmark Education Corporation - a company whose mission is personal transformation such that one is able to create in the face of upset and threat. One of the projects during this 10 month course consisted of initiating a conversation in the world and continuing to create it through the seven steps of its development until it is out in the world and part of the culture's conversation.
The process of doing this requires continual creation and breaking through the places where one wants to hang on to something he thinks he knows or some comfortable way he behaves that actually stops the continued creation of the conversation in the world.
Three of the steps of the process are stenciled across the paintings. Some of the days of the project are stenciled from bottom to top in the painting. The dark blue, water-like shape at the left represents the old self. The wild "wingy" shape at the right represents the willingness to throw oneself out of his comfort zone, like a fledgling out of the nest for the first time. You do learn to fly. - B
The process of doing this requires continual creation and breaking through the places where one wants to hang on to something he thinks he knows or some comfortable way he behaves that actually stops the continued creation of the conversation in the world.
Three of the steps of the process are stenciled across the paintings. Some of the days of the project are stenciled from bottom to top in the painting. The dark blue, water-like shape at the left represents the old self. The wild "wingy" shape at the right represents the willingness to throw oneself out of his comfort zone, like a fledgling out of the nest for the first time. You do learn to fly. - B
Reorganizing the Icons 24"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"All was broken and not to be reassembled as before. Even what was important became something new."
Owner: Mr. Phil Hills
Dust of the Devil 24"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"The wind sucked the dust into the air. The blue-watered rivers and lakes nourished the valley once more."
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This, along with Reorganizing the Icons, was painted when we went into Iraq after the 9/11 attack. - B
Chasin' 19"w x 21"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"Sometimes we need to go chasin' - not sure what we are after."
Owner: Dr. Carlos Franco
I see a Scotty dog at lower left chasin' leaves and butterflies and all kinds of things blowing in a spring wind. Gotta do it sometimes. - B
3 - 3"w x 3"h acrylic on board - framed
Owner: Ron Roberts
The Sensuality of Space 30"w x 20"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
Owner: Ms. Carolyn Lacy
This painting suggests a balanced whirligig. The colors are luscious and sensual in themselves, and the space is balanced not just by the form of light and dark but also by the textural detail which conveys balancing delicacy and sensuality. Sometimes one gets the feeling that he is looking down on a group of four people dancing wildly in circle with shades of orange streamers accentuating their movement. - B
This painting suggests a balanced whirligig. The colors are luscious and sensual in themselves, and the space is balanced not just by the form of light and dark but also by the textural detail which conveys balancing delicacy and sensuality. Sometimes one gets the feeling that he is looking down on a group of four people dancing wildly in circle with shades of orange streamers accentuating their movement. - B
Gathering My Spirit 24"w x 18"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
Owner: Mrs. Monet Bowling
Dancing 36"w x 36"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"Holding yourself proud with your partner. Spinning, sliding, gliding to a rhythm; dancing and self-esteem are congruent."
Owner: Ms. Carolyn Lacy
To me this looked the pattern of steps on the floor while one is dancing. Another interpretation? Looking down into a oriental fish pond. - B
To me this looked the pattern of steps on the floor while one is dancing. Another interpretation? Looking down into a oriental fish pond. - B
The Unquenchable Inner Fire 46"w x 70"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
"There is within every one of us a place of supreme importance - a value that has life worth living. Access to that place is to be in touch with the 'Unquenchable Inner Fire.'"
Owner: Mr. Brandon R. Williams
Ode to Edwin 20"w x 14"h acrylic on canvas, 2003
Owner: Edwin Barnes
The Frieze 30"w x 8"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
"A frieze is for no reason - except the most important ones: Beauty and the pleasure of the senses."
Owner: Dr. Carlos Franco
Oh, How My Garden Grows
36"w x 20"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
36"w x 20"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
"It's fresh with tiny sprouts and sprigs.
It's blooming. It's strong and healthy.
Owner: Ms. Sarah Chesley
The Guardian
It Must Have Been Moonglow
12"w x 9"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
"Night has its mysteries and who doesn't love to play detective?"
The Guardian
24"w x 18"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
Commissioned by Marilyn Stohler
Depiction of a deep pool at the base of a green hill and in a green area. At the left of the pool the paint looks like a man's head from the top. We look down on his hair, his brow and the top of his nose. He guards the deep blue pool which is interpreted to be the creative power of woman. The waved blue-green stream lying horizontally across the bottom third of the painting suggests floating movement which accentuates the fixed position of the Guardian honoring his self-appointed task of watching over the generative pool. - B
It Must Have Been Moonglow 12"w x 9"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
"Night has its mysteries and who doesn't love to play detective?"
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The Crucible 18"w x 18"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
"At the center of my vitality, today is the day I transform from nebula to solar system."
Owner: Dr. Carlos Franco
Burning Sensuality 18"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
Owner: Margie McRae
The Pull to Create 60"w x 72"h acrylic on canvas, 2002
"True creation is not something we will into existence. An idea excites our values and we are pulled to express ourselves - be it in art or science or human relations."
Owner: Dr. Carlos Franco
Making Gems12"w x 12"h acrylic on canvas, 2001
Owner: Valerie Andrew
Shakti 60"w x 72"h acrylic on canvas, 2001
Romancing the Dream 16"w x 20"h acrylic on canvas, 2001
"Creation is part incubation and part action. In the background is the romancer, who, like a wizard, is able to balance the two into an existent."
Owner: Ms. Marilyn Stohler
This work suggests the primal creative forces - male and female. The dance of the impregnator and the incubator. This same process exists throughout humanity in the offering and accepting ideas which are allowed to affect one's actions. As in all creations, it has to be watched over and supported when necessary until it can live on its own. - B
The Sunspot that Sourced India 18"w x 18"h acrylic on canvas, 2001
"Who can explain India? It had to be sourced by something.
Perhaps it's a direct descendent of a sunspot.
I wonder."
Owner: Mr. Brandon R. Williams
This painting captures the intensity of a powerful creative source. Although the artist used the idea of India since it seems so exotic and rich in unusual built forms and life forms, the intensity that sourced the idea of America may even be more remarkable phenomenon. No one ever before had the idea that people are self-regulating. - B
This painting captures the intensity of a powerful creative source. Although the artist used the idea of India since it seems so exotic and rich in unusual built forms and life forms, the intensity that sourced the idea of America may even be more remarkable phenomenon. No one ever before had the idea that people are self-regulating. - B
From Chaos, Beauty 42" x 42" acrylic on canvas,2001
Owner: Mr. Means Davis
