SPOTLIGHT

Each month I will highlight a different painting on this page, offering it for sale at a reduced price.

Trouble comes from my series of work featuring themes from the American Old West, Untamed! That series began back in 2016, spanning a couple of years, and featuring a rogue’s gallery of drifters, grifters and outlaws who were mostly up to no good. I have ambivalent feelings about Old West mythology and visuals, both kinda in love with it all and yet also suspicious and leery of the subconscious hold that era seems to have on this nation as it wrestles with struggling to cope with change in the 21st century. Untamed! reflects America in all our absurdity.

Our friend in this painting is gearing up for some trouble alright. I love the way inks react with the delicate, super fine paper here, rendering even the tiniest stroke of a fine brush unpredictably fluid and expansive. With a limited color palette of purples and greens, up-close inspection reveals subtle and exciting hues.