The FACES Series
The Faces series examines identity and presence through figurative form. The works balance gesture and structure, allowing expression to emerge through material sensitivity rather than narrative or likeness.
Title: Hidden Soul Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: The Kiss Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm The Kiss: I had a simple image of two lips kissing. I drew the lips and then the noses simply grew from that point. I then wanted to distinguish the male from the female so I gave him a moustache. I wanted to keep it simple and express the joy, love and warmth of this tender gesture.
Title: Love Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm Love: The bond between a man and a woman. Specifcally that special look into the eyes of the person you love. The painting is wild and the images become one with objects of this love for the viewer to find.
Title: The Phantom Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm The Phantom: This painting has been described as a haunting painting that stares back at the viewer. The title was easy to come by as the finished painting reminded me of the Phantom of the Opera. If one searches one can find the object of this ‘Phantoms” desire within the work, this Phantom’s Christine.
Title: Threesome Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 70cm Threesome: The sexually suggestive sounding name is not an accident. It is what it is; a man’s desire to experience sex with two women at the same time.
Title: Flamenco Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 70cm Flamenco: Being also a musician my memories of Flamenco music is traced to my youth when it was the music that was played in my house constantly. Also having an uncle who is a professional Flamenco guitarist I have sat around him and his fellow musicians late into the night absorbing the fire, power, and emotion of the Flamenco (not to mention absorbing the many bottles of wine that go with it). The painting captures some of those emotions and memories.
Title: Chastity Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Chastity: In the medieval times when a man was obsessed with his woman and feared she would stray, he would fit her with a chastity belt whenever he was away from her. In the painting I try to show the fear and jealousy of the man, the beauty and charm of the woman and her sexuality, and the ever present third man; the threat that causes the man to “lock” his woman and keep her for himself only.
Title: Burgandy Dream Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 162cm X 97cm Burgundy Dream: This is another form of the threesome fantasy. However in this one it is focused on the two women. In this one we don’t see the man but rather what he dreams of.
Title: Deliverance Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Deliverance: The most often asked question of people who have seen this painting is, “is this what I think it is”? The answer is YES.
Title: Conflict Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 70cm Conflict: Something I abhor but have witnessed all to often in people. In the painting I express the ugliness of conflict and the pain and tears it brings, especially among people who otherwise love each other.
Title: Crowded Canvas Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 4 x 40cm X 40cm 3D Crowded Canvas: I had 4 canvases that I painted with a different background color. I then decided to group the 4 together to paint the painting without thought that there were 4 canvases. I simply allowed the lines to flow as I felt. Once the painting was completed I split the canvases and enjoyed the effect of a slight gap between the canvases as they were hung on the wall.
Title: Enraptured Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 4 x 40cm X 40cm 3D Enrapptured: The many facets of being enrapptured; from curiosity to love and desire.
Title: Lust Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 70cm X 70cm Lust: The power of sexual lust is one of the most powerful forces in the human being. Over the centuries it has been an urge that has been tried to be controlled by religious orders and has failed. It is primeval and I try to show the poser of it in this painting.
Title: Lovers and Friends Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm Lovers and Friends: The faces of lovers and friends some remain while others are memories, good or bad, symbolized in this painting by the one face which looks away from the central face.
Title: Dutch Delight Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 80cm Dutch Delight: After living in Amsterdam I would have to say that some of the most beautiful women in the world are there. The women for the most part are tall and voluptuous with piercing eyes. In this paining I have tried to express how I see them against a background of flowing colors of the flag of The Netherlands.
Title: Head Turner Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 80cm Head Turner: Almost everyone who first sees this painting the immediately point to the “penis” they see. In actuality it is not a penis. It is simply a woman walking in front of an admiring man. But because of the distance separating the two, he is close up she is further away; her body blocks his other eye, nose, and the other half of his smile.
Title: Kissing Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 2x 100cm X 40cm Kissing: A great pastime that deserved to be painted in a style reminiscent of the Yin-Yang. The choice of two canvases rather than one painting in the two colours was to allow them to be hung with a space in between which I felt would enhance the final viewing of the work.
Title: Mourning Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm Mourning: The grief and pain at a loss. Any loss, be it a loved one or a friend. The loss of someone we never knew but idolized.. The loss of love. The loss of an opportunity, or simply the loss of what little time we have given to us.
Title: Seeing Red Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Seeing Red: This painting is my expression of anger and frustration and how they cause an imbalance within our minds. How such feelings keep us from thinking rationally and make us do things which we often regret. I am frequently asked if I was angry or frustrated at the time I created this work. The answer is yes. Fortunately, I maintained my exposure enough not to destroy the work after its completion.
Title: Femme Fatal Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Femme Fatal: Simply the image of the “Deadly Woman” who uses her charm and her sex to ensnarl her male prey. In the painting I try to express the ‘Femme’s” use of a look, a smile, a gesture with the lips, a turning away to seem uninterested, and always present, the sex. I used the blue background to represent the “blues” that she leaves behind in her prey.
Title: The Peeper Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm The Peeper: Many people get confused by this painting because the search for more than is there. I have had the large circular images even described by one viewer as fish. In fact they are very large breasts belonging to the woman whose face we see. She in turn is staring down at the “Peeper” staring up at her. Simple and whimsical.
Title: Smorgasbord Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Smorgasbord: A buffet of intimate delights for the palate of the discerning lover.
Title: The Giving Woman Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm The Giving Woman: The partial female form turned into a vase symbolizes all that ‘pours’ forth a woman that in itself is a necessity of life for she gives not only of herself to her man and to her child, but to all who come in contact with her.
Title: Hidden Soul Ser.II Ver. 1 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 39cm X 39cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: Hidden Soul Ser.II Ver. 2 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 39cm X 39cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: Hidden Soul Ser.II Ver. 3 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 39cm X 39cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: Hidden Soul Ser.II Ver. 4 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 39cm X 39cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: Apathy Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Apathy: The look that we take on when we become indifferent to a person, event or an activity. Specifically I was thinking at how easy it is to turn off from what we don’t want to see. To turn away from things that we have the power to change but choose not to do so.
Title: Bubble Gum Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm Bubble Gum: The many images in this painting have nothing to do with bubble gum. However, the shade of pink reminded me of a brand of bubble gum I enjoyed as a child.
Title: The Seed Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 100cm The Seed: The embryo in the womb planted by a man and a woman’s coming together as one.
Title: Blue Eyes Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100cm X 80cm Blue Eyes: Simply named for the main focal point of the blue eyes which are central to the painting. The body images are similar to the central figure in the painting Dutch Delight representing female sexuality.
Title: Monochromatisim Bliss Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 116cm X 89cm Monochromatism Bliss: The bliss of sexuality. The title of the painting comes from the fact that it is painted in only black and white and devoid of color .
Title: Hidden Soul Ser.II Ver. 5 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: Hidden Soul Ser.II Ver. 6 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 90cm X 90cm Hidden Soul: That which lies within us all. The other side of us all which we seldom if ever expose or share with others. Sometimes bright, often dark.
Title: Window Of The Soul Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 162cm X 97cm Window of the Soul: This painting has a lot of things going on but central are the many eyes. And as I strongly believe that you can see deep into the soul of another when you look deep into their eyes, I titled that painting as such.
Title: All About Eve Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 140cm X 73cm All About Eve: This paining is an expression of the many facets of a Woman as I see her. In it I try to show her sexuality, her nurturing care and love, her anger, her fear, her good side and her bad sid
Title: Laughter All Around Me Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 170cm X 50cm Laughter All Around Me: This painting is self explanatory in its images. The ‘Me’ is the large central face surrounded by many laughing faces. The most often question is “are they laughing at me or with me”?