Warm Memories, oil on panel 12″x12″ N/A
Tiger Lily, oil on panel 12″X12″
Baby Blue Eyes, oil on canvas 36″X36″
Rose Culture 1891, oil on canvas 36inX36in
Deposit Seed Co., oil on canvas 36inX36in, In Tandem, International Juried Exhibition, Cape Cod Museum of Art
Monarchs, oil on panel 10inX10in N/A
Monarchs, oil on panel 12″x12″ N/A
Cottage Rose Garden, oil on panel N/A
Goodnight Kisses, oil on panel 12″X24″
Bee and Butterfly, oil on panel 24inX18in HAPPY PLACE Members Juried Exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art
Bluebirds, oil on canvas 48inX48in For my 50th birthday, my friend and mentor, artist Daniel Maffia, gave me a small watercolor of a bluebird: a symbol of hope, love, and renewal. His token inspired my latest series of paintings, which incorporate rosa rugosa and the ocean–images that Daniel and I have come to love from living on Cape Cod–and serve as an homage to a 40-year friendship we have shared.
Continuing his exploration of the connection between butterflies and bees and their existence in the modern world, he has decided to transform the figure into a butterfly nymph and combine it with flowers they pollinate and vintage seed packages. By doing so, he aims to highlight the magical charm of these majestic insects while also drawing attention to the paradox that we simultaneously revere them and force them into extinction through our inexorable sprawl into their habitat.