Abstracts

FROM ORDER

In this 6ft X 2ft oil on canvas, the coil is a symbol for security. It appears to be liberating itself from its familiar sanctuary of order and planned symmetry and opting to merge, instead, out towards a loose abstract landscape. As the coils ventures into the unmethodical it seams to strengthen the exit-ways’ structure as it passes through. On the stage of disarray the coil (security) introduces uniformity and bridges the gap between chaos and order.








Below are details of this large painting.

INTO DISCOVERY

INTO DISCOVERY is an oil on canvas measuring 6ft. X 2 ft.
When I began working on this contemporary realist painting the shell, to me, symbolized a woman. It was my intention to represent a woman liberating herself from her familiar and safe environment and venturing out alone into the vast unknown, here embodied by the canvas. As the painting evolved, however, it gradually revealed its own intentions. The life-sized canvas asserted itself as the larger, total human form of no particular gender with the shell posing as a symbol for the heart. The heart is now venturing courageously away from its familiar safe haven of certainty and into the potentially dangerous milieu of love. The ocean inside roars with fear but the heart is persistent.







The following images are details.