Oil on canvas, 38 x 58 inches, 2024
Oil on canvas, 74 x 54 inches 2024
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Oil paint on canvas, 76 × 96 inches 2022
SOLD
Oil painting on Hardwood panel, 14 × 17 inches 2024
Ink, paper and oil paint on hardboard panel, 24x14 inches, 2024
Ink, paper and oil paint on canvas 57 x 22 inches, 2024
This painting was inspired by a Japanese tree pruning method called the Daisugi technique. By pruning the tree, it trains the tree to grow strong solid smaller trees above the mother tree and allows wood to be harvested without killing the mother.
This sustainable practice inspired me to draw the tree, as well as my concern for the environmental crisis and the future of our planet. The tree is growing out of the ears as a way to imagine what living in harmony with nature could look like, as well as how trees will take back the earth after we are gone.
The figures are comfortably entwined together, safe under the tree and with each other. Yet, an unsettling pink sky loams above them as an omen of where our planet could be heading if we do not find ways of sustainability. The scroll like shape of the painting is a nod to ancient texts and knowledge such as the daisugi method, which could hold the keys for a more environmentally responsible future.
Oil on canvas, 76 x 120 inches 2022
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Oil paint on canvas, 76 x 82 inches 2021
Oil on Masonite panel, 24.5x33.5 inches 2022
Oil on canvas, 72 x 44 inches 2021
oil on canvas, 44x88 inches completed in 2022
Ink, oil paint, arches paper mounted on Masonite panel 15.25x21.5 inches 2022