Capturing memories that I hope will bring joy for many generations. That’s what I love about portraits: they are a little gift to posterity, from now to then. A moment in time.

Portraits

A group of experiments, inspirations, and one-offs.

Lagniappe (bonus treats)

Rain on Water: Endless repercussions of arcs and ellipses. Like snowflakes, ever repeating, never alike.

This series is a plea for rain in a droughtful region. If I could dance, I would; I paint my invocation instead. And in the painting, surprises everywhere: focus in on one small corner of the pond, the puddle, the reflections, and look at that—a fish, a stone, a splash-back. Revelations.

Rain on Water Series

Eggs and Feathers: Nests are an intricate basketry, and instinctive architecture: hearth, cradle, and sanctuary.
Is there anything more full of promise than an egg?

All that potential is warmed by parents’ clever clothing:
feathers that fly and shield, down that holds heat.

Eggs and Feathers

There is no more primordial interaction than between pollinator and blossom. Birds, bugs, and bees are lured by flowers’ siren songs of scent, color, and nectar; then they repay their hosts by spreading their pollen.

Food and procreation: the heart of existence itself. We used to know that we depend on these creatures, that they are responsible for seed and fruit. We need to relearn this basic truth now, before more damage is done.

Let us reacquaint ourselves with this essential loop of fertility. We need to nurture, not interfere with this magical interconnectivity of life. 

Pollinators

Dew on Webs series: Brown widow and orb-weaver spiders’ nightly architecture drapes leaf and twig, fencepost and vine. In stacks of old photos, I unearthed many snaps of those galactic swirls and light-struck meshes, drops of captured dew glittering like no other prey. I took the hint.

Painting these webs, focus was key; where does the eye go, where does it settle? Dew drops – points of light – the web’s center? Yes, and yes, and yes.

Dew on Webs

People all over the world think rabbits bring good fortune, especially on the first of the month. Need a good luck charm?

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

A new collection of abstract acrylic paintings

Abstract

Soap Bubbles = Ephemeral: polychrome orbs loosed upon the breeze with a breath, only to explode in a shower of iridescent drops.

But in those few seconds, they magnify and beautify their surroundings, their rainbow surfaces swirling and thinning as they spin through space. What they bring…pure enjoyment.

Bronle Crosby