Category Archives: painting

24th Annual Fine Art Market Show and Sale at the Arvada Center

for Arts and Humanities.

Many wonderful local artists display their wares at this show, and the opening reception is lovely; beautiful young people in ties walk around with trays of pastries and things, offering them up. I will have 13 pieces in this exhibit. Most are tiny and brand new. There is also a new thing this year for people who have cell phones (i.e., everyone on the planet except me). You can dial in a number and hear each artist say whatever they’ve chosen to say about their work. What a world!

We Passed the Setting Sun

Oil on wood, 12″ x 12″.

Genie

Oil on canvas, 12″ x 9″

Bibelot

I will have the following paintings at “Bibelot,” a show of miniatures hosted by Kanon Collective in the Santa Fe Art District in Denver. The Show opens this First Friday, December 3 and runs until December 31. Thanks, Kanon!

“Blindsight,” oil on canvas, 12″ x 12.”

“The Angel of Death has a Girl in Every Port,” oil on canvas, 11″ x 14″.

“The Voice in the Waves,” 14″ x 11″.

Biblelot may sound like it has something to do with pillars of salt and tie-wearing strangers who come knocking at your door with poorly illustrated pamphlets about lambs and lions, but it doesn’t. The dictionary tells me it is a “small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.”

Galatea

Oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″.

Some things last a long time

Thank you, Mike Lownie, for reminding me that Daniel Johnston exists in this world. You brightened my whole day (as grey and dreary as it looks from the outside here in Denver on the unusually late date of our first snowfall of the season.)

I will have tiny and affordable paintings for sale at the Foothills Center Holiday Market, which opens this Friday November 13, with a reception from 6 to 8 pm.

This show will last a (relatively) long time. It hangs from November 13 till December 30.

Hitchhiker

Oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″.

Mermaids Singing (What the Water Wants)

With apologies to and in appreciation of T.S. Eliot and Sufjan Stevens.

And countless others. Always.

Oil on wood, 6″ x 36″.

I’ve finished this oddly sized painting for a group show titled Syzygy (we’re all working on this same long, narrow panel) that will open at Sync Gallery on November 19th and hang until December 11th.

Many thanks to the good people at Sync for inviting me.

ten twenty twenty ten

“Churning,” oil on canvas, 6″ x6″.

Finished now.

Farther along

At least a bit.

I think this one is almost finished.

“The Embrace,” oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″.