Selected Works
The Selected Works presents selected pieces developed beyond specific series. The works offer a broader view into ongoing studio exploration and process.
Title: Falling In Love Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Falling in Love: When eyes lock into each other and funny things start to happen inside your body, you're falling in love. The painting is influenced by 2 Paul McCartney songs...'Coming Up' and 'Maybe I'm Amazed". You see the couple coming up, like a flower, from the black void of nothing into love, and the look of amazement at the new found feelings.
Title: Yin Yang Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Yin Yang: A play on the two primal opposing but complementary principles of the Yin and Yang in the being of Woman.
Title: Recorded Memories Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Recorded Memories: Our databank of recorded memories contained in the vault of our mind is large, multi-colored, multi-textured and indexed to our many experiences in life. In the case of this painting it is recorded memories of one moment of love, sex, and complication of emotions involved.
Title: Sleeping Beauty Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Sleeping Beauty: My vision of the classic tale of the kiss from the prince that awoke the sleeping beauty.
Title: Lost Love Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Lost Love: The memory of a long lost love with all the emotions that encompass this moment in life are represented in this canvas.
Title: Dream Lover Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Dream Lover: Dream lover where are you. As the lyrics from the song says. We are all looking and dreaming of our dream lover, partner, and soul mate. In this painting I have used the woman as the central figure and the image of the male and female
Title: Meditation Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Meditation: I have tried to capture the peacefulness and tranquility of the power of meditation. The ability to take ones self to another plane.
Title: The Other Side of Stress Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm The Other Side of Stress: Stress comes to us all at some point in time. The secret I have learned is how to deal with it when it arrives. The Painting depicts the darkness and pain of stress while the other side depicts the calmness and serenity in which one has to move to in these times of stress to deal with whatever the issue is causing the stress, in a calm manner.
Title: Fever Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Fever: "You give me Fever". The flame, heat amd passion of love, desire and lust.
Title: Spanish Dream Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 146cm X 114cm Spanish Dream: In a dream I saw the fire of the Flamenco, the Fire of the Women, and the fire of the Gitanos (the gypsies). That is why the use of red as the main color of the work. The Central figure of the naked woman in black and white is the hot and cold posture of the Spanish woman. The image of the woman with her eyes closed represents both shyness and some of the old values which remain. The “sail” as many have called it in the middle of the painiting is actully a film strip representing the feeling I sometimes have of being in Spain of “make belive”, of being in a dream. A dream within a dream.
Title: 4 Dreams Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 153cm X 122cm 4 Nudes: 4 female nudes and the complexity of the woman both soothing and tumultuous.
Title: Las Lágrimas de una Guerra Civil Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 153cm X 122cm
Title: El Jinete Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 195cm X 146cm
Title: Nude On The Beach Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Nude on the Beach: Living on the Mediterranean coast it is not unnatural to come across nude sunbathers. I have often watched the people watching the sunbathers as much as watching the sunbathers themselves. The painting shows the woman in the nude leaning against another nude body with the sun in the image of a breast. The woman is in one sense ignoring the people looking at her (her eyes are closed) while the other side of her (you must look carefully in her hair to see her other side) is looking back and shows the side that appreciates that she is sexy and admired. The eye under her legs represents those watching the nude sunbathers.
Title: Dubai Beauty Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 162cm X 130cm Dubai Beauty: On several visits to Dubai I came away with an idea that transformed itself into a work that encompasses the colors of the sea, sky, and land. It’s central focus is on a veiled woman’s face which represents the beauty of the people in which then blends in with the outline of the Burj Al Arab hotel, which itself has become a symbol of the Dubai to many people around the world.
Title: Eye Contact Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 65cm Eye Contact: When two eyes meet and and the passion is ignited.
Title: Shy Woman Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 65cm Shy Woman: While being shy, a woman can not hide her form and sexuality.
Title: Tango Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Tango: I took in a live stage show while in Dubai of a group of South American dancers who did a show around the theme of the tango. Later that evening I awoke and sketched the image that is the final painting.lowing from her closed yes and a vortex of a dream.
Title: Lovely Ladies Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 50cm Lovely Ladies: You know who you are.
Title: Flower Child Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 40cm X 50cm Flower Child: She grows wild and free.
Title: Heat Of The Night Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 50cm Heat of the Night: When passions are released and fire burns through until the light of day.
Title: Bedroom Blitz Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 50cm Bedroom Blitz: The Intensive and overwhelming bombardment of sensulaity, love, passion and feelings that are released in the bedroom.
Title: The Hierarchy of Women Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 153cm X 122cm The Hierarchy of Women: The woman on the right appears like the mother of all Divas. She has a serious, unshaken, but soft look in her eyes and half a smile on half of her beautiful red lips. She shows off her perfectly standing breasts partially in a black outfit. This is the part she reveals of herself. The other half of her face and personality remains a mystery, a fact which makes her alluring and stirs curiosity. She is powerful, elegant, soft, tempting, confident and mysterious, like a diva-queen. Yet she stays out of the spotlight. In the center of the work are the others. Those who are in constant rivalry behind her back, they smile and gossip, compliment and manipulate, they also conspire against her.
Title: Reminisce Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 102cm X 122cm Reminisce: Remembering and reliving special moments.
Title: Goodfellas Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Goodfellas: One of my favorite “mob” movies is the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. The movie poster shows the three main gangsters in the movie portrayed my Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta. The poster shows them to be glamorous figures in fine clothes. In my painting I take a different approach and show the true side of what those characters represent.
Title: Jose Maria and Maria Jose Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Jose Maria & Maria Jose: Returning again to my love of Flamenco I incorporated the image of the male and female flamenco dancers and the guitar. The humorous title came to me when I started to realize how many people in Spain had the name Jose Maria and Maria Jose.
Title: Blue Flower Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Blue Flower: What started as nothing more than a simple sketch was transformed into a meter and a half square painting which expresses love, tenderness, and serenity.
Title: Making Music Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 50cm Making Music: Making music is like making love. You experience a wide range of sensual feelings, emotions, textures, passions and ultimate satisfaction when it all comse together well.
The Siren: Tempting and dangerous yet possessed of powers that captivate the hearts of men.
Title: Where are you looking Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 50cm Where are you looking: An observation of where a man's eyes are when he meet a buxom beauty.
Title: Adam and Eve Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 97cm Adam and Eve: The first Man and Woman. Naked and alone in a sea of passion. Or at least it would be nice to imagine the scenario.
Title: Alive Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 122cm X 91cm Alive: The work represents the struggle of the Jewish people from the darkness of the Holocaust (on the left side of the canvas) to modern day Israel (on the right). The left shows the darkness of the past with the theme of colors and the six sets of eyes behind the bars and the six strips representing the six million. The face in yellow is how the Jews were identified by the yellow star. The right side shows the wailing wall, a kipa, the blue sky, blue seas and green of the land of Israel. The red above is the ever present danger which hovers over the country.
Title: Secret Passion Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 50cm Secret Passion: What a woman projects with one look is not always indicative of her true sensuality and passion.
Title: A Mess Of Blues Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 130cm X 70cm A Mess of Blues: We all have memories of past relationships that ended in the opposite direction of what we wanted. While they may be sad, I simply remember them in a glow of blue light, the blue light of the night when everything is peaceful rather than sad. When the memories are coated in this calming light they become 'experiences' to be remembered because in each of them a lesson was learned in the ever-ending learning process of living life.
Title: Flamenco Fire Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 195cm X 114cm Flamenco Fire: Another variation on the flamenco theme expressed in a large canvas of almost 2 meters in height. In this painting I have given the guitar the “soul” which it deserves as the primary element of the flamenco music.
Title: Mediterranean Madness Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 153cm X 122cm
Title: Kiss the Seniorita Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm
Title: Ole Ser. II Ver. 2 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 91cm X 122cm