Recent creations
Prints, paintings, photographs, and signals from elsewhere
Keepers of Purple Twilight
Signal From Elsewhere
A new limited-edition print is now available.
Signal From Elsewhere is a 24" x 24" signed fine art print that blends atomic-age abstraction, biomorphic forms, and retro-futurist atmosphere. The piece was built to reward a longer look. Shapes shift between figure and field, signal and presence, object and intelligence. What appears at first as a bold composition gradually opens into something more ambiguous and harder to name.
This piece began years ago under a different title and in a simpler form. Over time, I kept returning to it, pushing it away from a more direct, poster-like read and toward something with more depth, tension, and afterimage. The result is a composition that feels less like a single object and more like a conversation between two different orders of intelligence: an embodied presence on the right, and a charged, cosmic field on the left.
I’m drawn to work that can hold more than one reading at once. In this piece, the forms never quite settle into one thing. They suggest contact, signal, recursion, and distance without fully explaining themselves. That ambiguity is part of the point.
The print is produced as a signed 24" x 24" fine art print and released in a limited edition of 50.
For collectors interested in a different scale, I’m also happy to accommodate custom orders for larger or smaller sizes.
The Visitor
The Visitor, mid-century mod and atomic-age style print with a deer in an autumn landscape and a spacecraft about to land
Exploring Tofino
Photography from Tofino
Reimagining display of time
Abstract painting
Abstract painting acrylic on canvas, commissioned in 2018
Eeek!
I created the Eeek! painting as part of a gallery show in 1999. Inspired by Batman is was a mashup of characters, reflection on the comicbooks, 1966 TV show - really a stream of consciousness with fragments of imagery and phrases from classic Batmania.
The first version was smaller 18" x 36" and went to one of my friends.
In 2007 had an opportunity for a long-term gallery show at an Intercontinental Hotel art gallery. I had just completed about 40 paintings so the timing was great. The gallery itself was a very large space, with a magnificent central entrance wall. Nothing like a big blank wall for inspiration. I thought it would make more of a statement to have a single large piece and came up with the idea to reimagine Eeek! with my largest painting to date.
Eeek! sold in 2010 to a California collector. They were restoring a mid-century modern home, the design of which was featured in Atomic Ranch magazine. Eeek! made the cover of that issue.
Since then I’ve done a few commissions of Eeek!, each one unique.
Tsukiyama
Tsukiyama, hilly garden. Travel-poster style illustration.
Elvis Strikes, collage
Polaroid transfer, collage
Weird Science
Rather than beginning with a fixed idea, I often approached painting in this period through searching, exploration, and a kind of automatic process. This piece grew that way, starting with a few colors or symbols and layering from there. I would respond to what surfaced, covering, revising, and letting accidents stay if they carried energy, until the image found a strange but instinctive balance. What I was after was not polish, but a sense of internal coherence that felt discovered rather than imposed.
