Gopher with Candy Corn Painting

The current body of work takes aspects of religious iconography, classical realism and my own unique formula for building texture and creating a distinctive aged appearance. I refer to these large scale paintings as “Everyday Icons”. These Icon portraits focus on a single character to capture moments of triumph, transition, enlightenment and serenity. Dogs leap for balls, squirrels clutch their prize candy corn and swimmers savor their communion with water, each in their own way achieving transcendence. Traditional portraiture takes on an ethereal interpretation with the incorporation of gold leaf and various other media including plaster, oil, acrylics, beeswax, metal leaf, layers of medium and varnish, gems and glitter. My aim is to produce a highly textured masterful portrait with a depth and luminescence that interacts and hopefully moves the viewer in some way.