Abstractions

The title of this body of work is Meditations. Each one has been a meditation for me.

I began doing this new work early in 2012, but it was a return to work I had learned in college and graduate school and have gone back to periodically. This time it became an obsession. It satisfied some inner feeling beyond words or images. Each drawing took many hours, days of work until it reached the point where it felt "right." This work should not be dismissed with a glance... it is my hope that the viewer will enter into the contemplative spirit in which they were done.

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Meditation for winter
watercolor and color pencil on paper
12x12'

Garden with Ladder
color pencil on watercolor 14x17''

Summer
color pencil on watercolor
12x12"

Inner Landscape
color pencil and watercolor on paper
18x18''

New Dwelling
mixed media on paper 10x10'

In the collection of Sharon Emley

Conversations
color pencil and crayon on watercolor 10x11''

Autumn
color pencil 19x26''

Early Afternoon
color pencil on watercolor 16x16''

private collection

Garden #5
color pencil on watercolor 12x14''

I no longer have this drawing.

Green Hill
color pencil on watercolor 10x10''
This drawing no longer exists.

Garden
color pencil on watercolor 14x19''

Study in warm colors
oil on linen 30x30''

meditation #8 (blue study)
color pencil on watercolor 10x12''

Family
color pencil and crayon on watercolor 10x9''

private collection

Blue Abstraction
oil on canvas, about 40x45''

Commissioned by John Haro

The Garden, 2
Color pencil and crayon on watercolor

In the collection of Phil Musser and Carol McClennan

July
crayon on watercolor 28x28''

private collection

Study in gray and yellow, 4
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

Study in gray and yellow, 3
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

Study in gray and yellow, 1
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

To the Garden
6''x6''
color pencil on watercolor

private collection

Study in gray and yellow, 2
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

tone poem #3
color pencil on watercolor 4x4''

In the collection of Kenyon and Lindsay Hanson.

tone poem #2
color pencil on watercolor 4x4''

In the collection of Andera Puzakulich

tone poem #1
color pencil on watercolor 4x4''

private collection

Pikkulaulu 4
graphite on paper 6x6''

private collection

Pikkulaulu 2
graphite on paper 6x6''

private collection

Winter solstice
Color pencil on watercolor 21x25''

Collection of Jacob Koskenmaki

Aamu Rukkaus
color pencil on watercolor 15x17''
This is an older abstract from about 2002.
A Finnish word for ''Morning Prayer.''

Quietness
color pencil on watercolor 15x20''

Spring Arising
color pencil on watercolor 8x 11 1/2''

Carnival
color pencil on watercolor about 12x12"

Twining
watercolor and color pencil on paper
21x17'

summer
color pencil on watercolor 13x13"

Patchwork drawing
color pencil on watercolor 10x10''

meditation #2
color pencil on watercolor 10x12''

Private collection