Green and blue

100 by 120 cm.  (about 3 by 4 feet).  

Lately, I have been using bolts to attach paintings to wood frames, and/or a thicker impasto paint: I seem to be coming back to my roots in ceramic sculpture as my paintings get more three dimensional. 

This is a very personal painting, and a bit on the dark side.  On the one hand, it is a Dutch winter:  green moss and dark skies: death.  Yet when viewed in a brighter light the moss green becomes a deep and more verdant green, with  promise of growth and summer. The black center becomes a deep blue, almost more of a northern-lattitude midnight summer sky: rebirth.  I like this painting because of the ambiguity: it is my new favorite.

  

Blue and Yellow

Recently, I've been using discarded materials like old-wood, and architectural objects. The latest set of paintings explores the way the painting is connected to the support. This painting is mounted onto a cast-off wood shutter using bolts fastened through the surface of the painting to the underlying wood, done while the paint is still wet. The paint itself is augmented with oily painter's medium, so the paint surface shimmers like a jewel. It's been too dark and rainy to take photos here in Holland using natural light, so I can only share these photos now. More soon!