Rice Fields #5, Oil on Wood 10 x 10" 2009

Memory Language

I continue to explore the interface between war, peace, memory and visual expression.

I am influenced by the characters of East Asian languages.

I see in the forms and in the rhythm of the calligraphy, fragments that I include in this new imagery.

These pastels and paintings pay homage to the characters of peace, love, friendship, home and destiny.

The addition of my spontaneous and fleeting marks are meant to only make fragments of these forms as they fade in memory.

What remains is a whisper of the sounds swirling above the vibrant color of the surface. – May, 2012

Floating, Oil on paper mounted on board 18 x 24" 2011

Glow, Oil on Board 18 x 24" 2011

Rice Fields #3, Oil on Wood 10 x 10" 2009

Silence, Oil on Paper mounted on Masonite 22 x 30" 2011

Up Comes Spring, Oil on Paper 10 x 10" 2013

White Light #1, Oil on Wood 10 x 10" 2008

Ancient Music, Pastel 15 x 22" 2011

Lover's Song, Pastel 15 x 21" 2012

Lunar Moon, Pastel 18 x 26" 2011

Perfume River Song, Pastel 20 x 26" 2012

Rising Water Falling Food, Watercolor 8 x 10" 2010