Residential Portraits
and suburban landscapes

Settling Home
30” x 40”
(SOLD)

I See the Chariots and Charioteers of Israel!
(SOLD)

Annals of the Oak
8” x 8” Gouache

$190

Hilltop
(SOLD)

Quiet Afternoon
8” x 8” Gouache

$190

Scorched Petition and Land
24” x 18”

$590

An Allegory on Pride
24” x 18”

$590

Cold Turret
18.5” x 16”

$390

Settlement
24” x 18”

$590

Artist Statement


    Houses stage our domestic lives. Sometimes their walls conceal the workings within. Sometimes their facades leak visual revelations of the inner goings-on. I painted these houses in a manner that alludes to this truth; more happens within a house than what the casual eye observes from the outside. My eyes and ears tell me that many residences in Marion house much unrest. At night I hear the strife. In the day I take walks through the back-streets of Marion and see litter, neglected yards, and decrepit houses. But even when the yelling dies down and the rubbish washes away these urban dwellings still belie turmoil. So that my paintings resonate with this environment so common in Grant county, I inject the images with painterly brushstrokes, pump up the color contrasts, and stir the skies with my painting knife until they seem to seethe, burn, or explode. I paint, paint, and repaint until the image speaks to this dichotomy; quiet and stable structures house dynamic and intense human interactions. 


    My paintings take their lead from several movements and artists but most prominently Henry Ossawa Tanner inspires my paint quality, Edward Hopper directs some of the mood and lighting that lands on my houses, and JMW Turner, Constable, and the Abstract Expressionists influence my skies.


IMPORTANT: Each painting is painted in oil unless otherwise noted. Prices do not include shipping.

Make and inquiry about a painting and I’ll make a special check on availability. Some might have been sold since I updated my website and I forgot to note it. Framing information available upon request. 

Wild Collapse
24” x 18”

$590

Hallow Shell
20” x 16”

$290

Lonely Turn

12” x 24” 

$590

Daily Fallout

12 x 24”

$590

Lament
16” x 30”

SOLD


Internal Combustion
24” x 18”

$590

A Lesson I am Still Learning
24” x 18”

$590

Day-Time
20” x 16”

$290



A Certain Sense
16” x 20”

$290



Staircase Beside
28” x 20”

$290



And He Went Away Sad
24” x 18”

$590



Close Celestial Stirring
24” x 18”

$590



Forgotten Prayer
16” x 20”

$290

All Man’s Efforts
16” x 20”

(SOLD)

Profound Dichotomy
16” x 20”

(SOLD)

My Perspective Changes
16” x 20”

$290

A Matter of Belief
16” x 20”

$290

Significance in Existence
16” x 20”

$290

House of Worship
16” x 20”

$290

Storm Frontier
24” x 18”

(SOLD)

Momentary Understanding
16” x 20”

(Unavailable)

Morning Aura
24” x 18”

(Unavailable)

Variable
24” x 18”

Thinking About Redemption
16” x 20”

$290

Flat Trap
20” x 20”

$290

Plastic Racer
30” x 20”

(Unavailable)

Pivot Point
24” x 20”

(Unavailable)

Beautiful and Fearsome
20” x 20”

$290

The America I See
20” x 24”

(Unavailable)

Breath of Heaven
20” x 20”

(Unavailable)

New Stresses at the Pump

16” x 30”

(Unavailable)

Out of it He Spoke

16” x 20”

($290)

A Different Kind of Fat

18” x 24”

($290)

A Strange Reflection on Love

20” x 30”

($590)