Home Away From Home:

This is the complete catalog from this series
(to date) including those previously sold and those currently available.

Click on a title below for an image and more information or click on any image to the right to wander through the Home Away from Home Gallery. Click in the subsequent images to continue through the gallery.

Design Note: I am in the process of updating all the individual pages, so please excuse the different designs for now--a few of the links do not work properly for now--but I'll update them soon.

Click here for a Flash Picture Show of these Paintings (coming soon)


Interlaken
Gimmelwald
Lauterbrunnen *
Wengen *
Grütschalp *
Full Moon *
Prague Moonrise *
Decin *
Hunters' Moon
Pumpkin Ridge
Archimedes *
Lazy Afternoon *
Autumn Wheat
August
Morning Bus to Cesky Budejovice
The Pass *
Rising Mist
Phoenix *
Natural Bridge
Harvest Moon *
Overpass
Waxing Moon
Almost There
Hillside Sunrise *
Pink House *
Bell Tower *
Drive on Through to the Other Side *
Alpine Meadow (Rental)
Autosrada *
Hill Town (Rental)
Road to Monterosso *
Alpe di Siusi *
Into the Dolomites *
Town Center *
Siesta *
Everyone Should Have a Home *
Rendezvous Beneath the Bridge (Rental)
Around the Corner *
Downtown *
Prague Sunshine *
Rosie's Chair *
Theatre of the Night
Jack, Jill and the Red House *
The Edge of Night
Open Refrigerator *
A Second Story *
Party Upstairs *
Crowded Street *
Prague Storm *
Moonrise Over the Czech Republic *
Castelrotto *
Once in a Blue Moon *
Veneto (Rental)
Bolzano *
Behind the Red Curtain *
I'll Meet Her at the Blue House in Prague *
Cesky Krumlov *

* Private Collection





Updated: 31 August, 2008

An Aesthetic Genesis

This group of paintings began almost unexpectedly during 2006. I had been wanting to explore some abstract expressionist work and during the winter of 2005-2006 I began to do so. For me, this was a significant challenge because it meant letting go of a creative structure I'd established to work with and trusting myself to be much more intuitive with the painting.

Personally, this was very rewarding and in the process I found various elements emerging from the painting and my subconscious. In fact, several of these elements had been present in work from 1997-1999, but it wasn't until I began this more intuitive way of working, that I finally began to put them together. But sometimes, I'm the last to know what my subconscious has in store for me.

"The Rhine River" 2006

"Oran" 1999

I'd been working on a DVD of images from The Czech Republic when I finally began to realize all of these pointy red roofs emerging in my paintings were there in the photographs I'd made. Little did I know that Prague and Cesky Krumlov would influence me so directly in an aesthetic manner, but they had certainly affected me personally.

Pointy Roofs, Prague, 2005


The Visceral Genesis

As an artist, I didn't want to concentrate on the darker side of world issues (not my forte), but rather, I'd been looking for a more optimistic response to our recent isolationist tendencies as a nation.



Construction Workers in Prague, 2005

I began to understand how deeply I'd been moved by the optimism, passion and open-mindedness of the Czech people. The more I continued work with these thoughts and images, I was reminded of how positive these people were in spite of the difficulties still facing them. It was then I began to consider my experience in the Czech Republic as the foundation for this new work.

So rather than point to what's wrong, I found an optimistic place to wander.
I was reminded of other people living half a world away who had a different approach to life, and another perspective to share. Metaphorically, I was comfortable in their home even though we didn't know one another--hence the title of the series--Home Away From Home.

This was the experience and the place that brought these ideas to the forefront for me, but it could have been so many different places that inspired these thoughts. So for me, this series is about optimism and hope and the joy of being home.