Recent Work… or what I am up to at the moment
Over the past few years I have been doing installations of my ceramic birds in homes, galleries, yards, and for auctions.
In some cases, I use my slip cast bird form as a canvas for small narrative paintings. These birds are embellished with underglazes, coated with a clear glaze and then fired to cone 6 (2265 degrees F) in an electric kiln. Each one is entirely unique.
I am also interested in the symbolic, metaphorical and visual implications of objects in paintings. I have been developing a vernacular of objects and playing with their relative meaning, physical and metaphorical weight. I have often used objects in the place of words in visual object poems.
Houses
I am playing around, mostly in 3 dimensions, with notions of a domestic narrative. The houses are showing up in paintings, on birds and in artist’s books. The newest houses are made of gessoed Baltic birch plywood painted with oil and set on a wooden stand.
or, see Artist’s Books.
