I started painting tricycles nearly a decade ago.

Very early on in my fine arts program there was a project where we had to select an object as an idea and work with it over and over, repeating the image in different styles, mediums and formats. A friend had a fantastic ancient tricycle and it just resonated with me. I painted it in a classic realist manner, but peeled away all the surrounding imagery and focused on the tricycle alone in a straight-forward visual language stuck with me and never left.

Tricycle XIV
36″ x 30″ — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD

Two Tricycles
20″ x 40″ — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD

What I love about books is their versatility. They offer and endless bounty of compositions for me to work with, and they have themes and symbolism in a wide variety of manners.

These Are Our Friends
12″ x 24″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Red Book
12″ x 24″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Stacks of Books & Espresso Cups
12″ x 24″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Origins & Apple
16″ x 16″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Vintage Research
20″ x 20″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
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Light Reading
48″ x 30″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
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Luggage, Chair & Shirt
28″ x 22″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
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Chair & Stacked Antique Books
24″ x 18″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• Sold

La Chaise Verte II
24″ x 18″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• Sold

Sometimes I sit and contemplate what I should say about my paintings. Sometimes that’s not the right approach. It’s good to just let the paintings do the talking themselves every now and then.

Remington Typewriter & Antique Books
20″ x 36″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Books, Paper, Pencil & Typewriter
20″ x 36″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

$10 — 5.5″ x 8.5″
• 30 glossy pages with 28 color plates
• contact the Elliott Fouts Gallery for shipping details
• also available on eBay

The gallery produced a really fantastic catalog for my upcoming show. Seeing the paintings printed is a different experience than viewing images on the web. It’s more tactile and crisp. The gallery will mail them throughout the United States & Canada. Contact them at [email protected] or call 1-916-736-1429 for details.

A random sampling of some of the pages.

The book publisher Iperborea in Milan, Italy, is using one of my paintings for the cover of their 2010 catalog. Again, it is an honor to have them select another image of mine, they used one before for the cover of another book. Very nice design, they pulled the vibrant, bright green from the bottle and wrapped it around the entire book.

$25 — 9″ x 17″
• click the image to see it larger
• contact the Elliott Fouts Gallery for shipping details
• also available on eBay

The gallery has produced a poster for my just-around-the-corner solo exhibition (June 5 – July 2). If you are interested, the posters are $25 and ship rolled. Contact the gallery at [email protected] or 1-916-736-1429 for details. The same image is also in the June issue of American Art Collector magazine.

28″ x 22″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

You can say so much with so little. I don’t mind the dense, thick imagery in the still life and interior paintings of the masters from centuries past. There is so much to learn and understand in those paintings. For me, living in today’s world, I’m experimenting with simpler images, with a simpler narrative. We live in such a media and image crazy culture, so I’m giving a quiet message with my work. There’s enough screaming and yelling going on elsewhere. Painting is a respite from it all.

Blue, Red, Green
16″ x 24″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

10:00, 11:00, 12:00
20″ x 36″ — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Threes. It’s something that happened without any real consideration or conscious decisions. Over the last year or so, I started painting horizontal compositions. Perhaps because they are “read” from left to right, as the titles suggest, moving your view across the surface of the painting. Whatever the case is, I like the rhythm it creates.