Not Subtle in the Making

I go at my canvas in bold strokes
An emphatic opening movement
A symbol crash of pigment
Not subtle in the making

The room seems to darken
The canvas is full of thunder
I see lights
I feel rain

Warm waves carry me
A great distance from where I started.

I do love painting,
Richly. Intensely.
Immediately.

24"x12" acrylic inks and paint on canvas. Available for $290.

...And Ever Still

Right here in this familiar room
In the pale glowing absence of light
I wonder what you're thinking now
Across the distance of twilight

Right here in this four walled haven
I'm marking time, I'm waiting
I'm sinking in, I'm digging out
I'm not communicating

Memory casts a thousand lights
They glimmer expectantly
Casting beams of bluest blue,
And soon I will sweetly see

And sliently the exchange is made,
A knowledge again renewed
My quickening will be subtly paid
Upon all who sense my mood

Smile, this day is ours to keep,
A gift, a ladder's rung
Climbing into the Milky Way
To sing melodies yet unsung

Sing, this life is an earthly gift,
A beginning stage in time
Forever, ever, and ever still,
I'm yours...
And you will be mine.

Pictured: "Blood Simple" acrylics on panel. Sold.

Seismic Soul

I fancy I hear your soul breathe,
I fancy that only I really know you.
So surely folly, I hardly know you,
Yet for some reason I'm falling madly...

Everything is based on my own need,
I hunger for something true blue;
A thirst-driven search for a taboo stew.
I keep ending up here, oddly...

Yellow, the red-riven skies seeth
Down through the layers I bleed through,
Ask me; I know that you want to,
You must for this thing to end badly.

And I fancy that too...
So surely, I fancy that too.

Pictured: "Seismic Soul" 24"x20" oils and acrylics on canvas. SOLD (after only one day in the new Woodlands Art League Gallery!)

Art 11, an End-of-Year Show in The Woodlands

Mark your calendar for a collaboration of original artists as they present their latest works in an end-of-year show, "Art 11". A wine and cheese reception will be held on Friday, November 5, 2010 from 6-10 pm at Studio in the Woods in the Woodlands, and the show will continue on Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 10 am-4 pm. All art will be available for purchase. I will be showing figure studies and a variety of other works. Other artists include Patricia del Rio, Ronald Dykes, Marty Hatcher, Liz Hill, Fred Hulser, Erin Page, Annette Palmer, Carrol Sherman, Susan Sheets, Melanie Stinson, and Michael Stratton.

Studio in the Woods is located at 26002 Budde Rd., The Woodlands, TX 77380.