Hospitality Arts Partnership

Drama of blue and orange.

These pieces look 3D with texture, clefts, and holes. The vibrant color traverses the rugged surface.

Part of a series.

Part of a series.

Part of a series of atmospheric painterly drizzle that gives depth and texture to this flat image.

I don't "see dead people", but I do see figures and faces, animals and places, scenes and actions. Come on! I know you do too! In the floor or ceiling, in the clouds, in the shadows and fog...

This is a glassy surface reflection of clouds above a deep sea. I rendered it down to painterly textures, shapes, and colors that conjure the stories of that twilight space between dreaming and consciousness. 

Reflection of clouds and sky on the open ocean series.

So much fun choosing which images would do well cropped square, and then assembled together. Works well in this office space to have a readable wall of connected images. Lots to look at when juxtaposed properly.

Like lunar landers, these towers silhouette in the coastal fog giving structure and geometry to the mist. I love the mystery and intrigue of emerging, or disappearing, figures in the ocean mist.

Full rich color enhance the silhouette and make this as gorgeous a compliment to a space as that sunset was to this earth.

Icons of summer beach fun become beautiful and interesting counters to the natural setting. This scene was caught on a blustery winter day with an El Nino storm running up over the mountains. I stood in the water to get the shot while the light was right and the clouds had not yet raced off to the desert.

These two photos printed on metal add wonderful counter texture and complimentary color while perfectly working the theme. These sticks, leaves, and reeds become abstracts that don't overpower, but are still beautiful and captivating.

Styrofoam! Yes, the piece on the wall is made from repurposed packing foam and I thought the black frame would anchor the concierge desk with a bolder texture and scale than the fine cutouts of the light wall. Use what you've got, right?

Various photos of oxidized copper and printed with reduction of some ink colors got this wonderful pattern and variation. Floated in a black frame. 31.5x41.5

In context, you can see how well it compliments the blue pillows and pops with the oranges and reds in the smaller pillow. White or earth-tone walls will make this like a warm fire. Cleanly edged by the black frame that ties it to the other furnishings.

Sunlight through the subtle perforations of a grass shade makes a beautiful ill-defined structure. I see a whole world of depth and form that is so fun to explore. I find it captivating as I rethink to overcome the initial feeling that this is out of focus. Something special from the ordinary.

Figures on a dance floor? A distant city? What Major Tom was seeing when Ground Control lost contact.

Water, rust, sticks, and reeds all come together as colorful glimpses of nature in a white-walled stark office environment to bring warmth and dimension to a cold impersonal environment.

So fun to have this commissioned for an episode of the television show Lucifer and then to have the owners of the location want to keep it. It was sized right and goes beautifully in the space. It adds the right color and tone of image. You can see a blue tint in the glass tabletop case right below it. The yellows of the sun reflection on the ripples in the piece are picked up in the shelf lights and the blue compliments the orange tones in the wood floor, chair backs, and painted wall in the rear.

In context in a furniture showroom, this piece hangs like a painting, but has the 3D aspect of a frieze. White in a black frame this textural piece is interesting, but won't dominate the setting.

cut from reclaimed foam packaging, this construct catches the light on its broken geometry. Like captured ice peaks, the pieces, packed shoulder to shoulder, struggle to move. Can you see it as your eyes scan from piece to piece?

Texture and color photographs to bring life and nature to a brutalist concrete desk.

Rich, colorful, and real! These 3D photos can be placed in any composition. Sea foam, anchor chain, beach pebbles and more in sharp wonderful color. The combinations are endless. And the theme possibilities are endless. Here they are spread apart, but can be nested, turned, stacked...

tryptic of 2 24"x36" photos on aluminum and a center piece 36"x48"  photos on matte paper with foam-core

Photos and acrylic

I love to juxtapose complimentary colors and different surface textures. The turning of the horizon to create vertical walls of rippling water adds depth and intrigue.

36"x48"  photo collage on 3 dimensional geometric forms

Rice silos aged by sun and rain take on a beautiful patina and I couldn't resist bringing up the orange sun reflection and compliment it with that amazing deep blue. 

I love that these are something historically basic to our farming culture, but most won't recognize exactly what they are. They look like something out of OZ to most and to farmers who know exactly what they are, I hope I made something functional and mundane beautiful and interesting. These particular silos hold rice, and have done so for quite some time.

Mixed media on canvas

I felt that this dated Milwaukee lobby and bar had turned in on itself and failed to connect to the community. So I removed a "decoration" and replaced it with a profile of the Calatrava masterpiece of a museum; surely a destination of some of the guests and a most recognizable icon of the city.

This is my Painting with Photography series. The painterly qualities are developed from shots of real places. The colors are developed from surface color and reflected color. The actual place looks grey and black. But the color is there! It just needs to be teased out and the texture worked to create a "painting". Printed on metal this glows and is positively 3D.

 Time and tide have worn at this wall. The boat that rocked and knocked has chipped and worn through several layers of paint creating an evidence line. Long since sailed to distant places, we still can know it was present and active in this place.

Part of the Paintography series

This piece simmers in a magic caldron of flowing color. So much to look at. So much to see! But take your time to look deeply. And remember, if you want to see something clearly, don't look directly at it.

Light through energized water. Reflective, refractive and though a static picture, there is so much narrative trail to explore that active looking is inevitable.

Reduced this to get that interstellar cloud look while retaining the depth and action of water. This bow spray deflection onto glassy deep sea, takes me on a journey beyond the captured moment.

Part of the Painting with Photography series.

The splash of blue comes right off the page highlighting the glow of the background which looks and feels like the ocean surface as seen from below.

Part of the Painting with Photography series.

Look at patterns like this long enough and you will see recognizable images that shift and change as your eyes dart around the piece. This process can begin a narrative that the mind creates as it makes connections from what it sees to what it knows.. Look for a while and tell me the story.

Part of the surf culture, the old vans rust has overtaken the layers of paint to create an energized pattern of flying shapes. Rorschach test for you. What do you see? Or...who do you see?

Sunset rocks on the wet sand create the luster of human skin. The rocks become holes and the whole thing can become translucent and atmospheric. Depends on how long you look and ponder.

Then in creeps the yellow! Layers of paint weather worn have created a singular effect. Depth and surface competing and playing with the eye.

Reflection of the sky and clouds on the open ocean series.

absolutely flat, but the texture gives it a 3D look.

Nature provides the roots of incredible colors and depth of texture, even among matted dead reeds along the shore of an estuary.

Photo on mat paper approximately 24"x32"

This is a mat print that was then watercolored to enhance his royal highness.

Running water into the hand feels like it penetrates right through.

The hills of Santa Barbara are laced with coastal oaks. Lit at night and they become electric.

Mossy shallows of the Batiquitos lagoon take on an otherworldly look. I had to stop, look, and listen before I even became aware of the incredible scene at my feet.

tryptic: 2 24"x36" photos on aluminum, center piece: 36"x48" construction of photos on matte paper, foam core, acrylics

Sometimes a great sunset is just what is needed.

Can you see them? We are slightly above looking down at a festive scene like back stage at a winter festival. She has quite the outfit including the hat. The bearded man observes...