Baby Boomer
9″ x 12″-Oil on wood panel So whats up with that cover then ? It’s actually an update of the original cover painting I did back in ’94, which was taken from a sequence where our...
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I’m working on a little diversion here- a side vent from the lava’s bubbling under current of Infernal. Of course it’s for a show….yes, yes-I know I was no longer going to participate in group shows...
View ArticleMood swings.
“All art is exorcism” Otto Dix Maybe it’s the algorithmic nature of using the word-“mood”-but the last time I posted one of these, my inbox was cluster bombed with spam, hawking pharmaceuticals...
View ArticleStillborne
“Dragging their Jesus hair. Did I escape, I wonder? My mind winds to you Old barnacled umbilicus, Atlantic cable, Keeping itself, it seems, in a state of miraculous repair.” Medusa-Sylvia Plath 24′ x...
View ArticlePaintheism
“Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain And all the children are insane All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain, yeah” The End-The Doors “if art can’t tell us, about the world we live in,...
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“How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer’s deadly toy? There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence” Russians- Sting It’s that time of year again, the feast of...
View ArticleNowhere Towns
“It was as though they consciously cast themselves as outsiders. An undermining confederacy within this outwardly god-fearing and respectable house. A commitment to the sadness of being white trash”...
View ArticleParadiso’s Fall Opening. Artist Reception-March 9th
So you do a show, and of course you hope that somehow the planets will align. That people come and like what they see. That your work will connect with the visitors, and hopefully make a few sales,...
View ArticleParadiso’s End
And so the show is a wrap, off the walls, down but not forsaken. Whilst I return to the studio ashes, future plans include the final sequence of the proposed trilogy-more about which to follow- an art...
View ArticleThe next thing
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust” T S Eliot. The Wasteland So here you have it, this is me signing on for more of the same madness for what will be the forseeable two years. No rest for the...
View ArticleLiving Proof
It’s true, April had a few momentary troughs. And a very rain sodden May more than it’s usual grays. Except to say-my demise greatly exaggerated-I haven’t disappeared into the downy dumps of the...
View ArticlePOST MORTIMER 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Here it is at long last then, unfinished business, a monkey on my back, 25 years in the making. I even knocked a special little trailer together, in the vintage style of all those late night thrillers...
View ArticleFait Accomplais
“Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.” Timothy Freke Here I am at the opening act for what will be the grand guignol, for my very own book of Revelations. The first of the last,the meanest...
View ArticleConspiracy Weary
“Healter Skelter”-24″ x 36″ – Oil on canvas (2012) “I saw Elvis in a potato chip once.” Fox Mulder, the X-Files Today marks fifty years since the strata was jolted by news of the Manson killings, and...
View ArticlePaintheism
“Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain And all the children are insane All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain, yeah” The End-The Doors “if art can’t tell us, about the world we live in,...
View ArticleFallout
“How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer’s deadly toy? There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence” Russians- Sting It’s that time of year again, the feast of...
View ArticleNowhere Towns
“It was as though they consciously cast themselves as outsiders. An undermining confederacy within this outwardly god-fearing and respectable house. A commitment to the sadness of being white trash”...
View ArticleRetrofit
“…he wondered if Mozart had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time. Maybe I have too, Rick thought as he watched the rehearsal move along. This...
View ArticleView from Abridge.
“People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let them know how dreadful war is, and to stimulate peoples...
View ArticleArt Decade 2009-2019
“I wish I could spend my days, lost in the pursuit of paint, all in the name of a greater journey-THAT greater journey.” Me-November 18th 2009 (Top) “Legend” (2009)-oil on canvas | 30″ x 40″ A decade...
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