Acrylic, graphite, paper on cradled birch panel (2020)
Size: h 20″ x w 16″ x d 1.5″
This image is the third in the triptych Rotation. To see the work as a whole, visit the Lifelines gallery at npaulvisualart.com, the site where I organize my bodies of work.
Coloured gesso, acrylic, graphite, ink on canvas (2022)
Size: w 14″ x h 20″ x d 1.5″
“Przewalski’s horse” is the only truly wild horse in existence. Other horses thought of as wild are in fact feral, according to The Smithsonian. For many years it was extinct in the wild, surviving only in zoos and field stations; its population was at long last successfully reintroduced in the 1990s to its native Mongolia where it is regarded as holy and known as the takhi (meaning spirit, worthy of worship). I picture the takhi roaming from room to room in Palladio’s Villa Poiana, lost between heaven and earth. The image arose from the confluence of two dreams I had 15 years apart, the most recent just a few weeks ago.
Conte on paper mounted on cradled birch panel (2022)
Size: w 12″ x h 12″ x d 1.5″ (x two pieces, diptych)
Conte on paper mounted on cradled birch panel, finished with acrylic and pastel (2022)
Size: w 12″ x h 12″ x d 1.5″
I think of this piece as depicting the three graces bathing in sunshine. An antidote to darkness.
Acrylic, ink, Japanese paper on canvas (2022)
Size: w 30″ x h 15″ x d 1.5″
The painting (detail of work in progress posted in January) is now finished. It was difficult to photograph.
Acrylic on paper (2009)
Size: w 13″ x h 17″
Acrylic, pastel, ink, Japanese paper on canvas (work in progress, 2022)
Size: w 30″ x h 15″ x d 1.5″
This painting began as a simple study of white clouds across a blue sky, with of course my two Nereid friends present leaping from one to the next. I decided it needed more colour, texture and complexity. The above detail is roughly 6″ x 4″, so I have a bit yet to do.
Acrylic, pastel, conte on paper (2020)
Size: w 9″ x h 12″
Based on the 1936 portrait of A Y Jackson by Lilias Torrance Newton.
Acrylic and Japanese paper on canvas board (2021)
Size: w 24″ x h 18″
Acrylic and Japanese paper on canvas (2021)
Size: w 22″ x h 28″ x d 2″
Another detail from a piece I started a while back (see https://npaulartworks.com/2021/03/28/leafy-sea-dragon-detail/). Still in progress.
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