About the work

This is an eclectic mix of river paintings, portraits, still life, interiors, figurative and abstract work in oil, casein and india ink, along with wood engravings, mixed media and collage. All relate to the creative atmosphere of rivertime, where past, present and future exist at once. These are daydreams of river alchemy. I see rivertime as a state of love, open to being and becoming. The river is a frontier for observing psychological time and the now: eternity surrounding the moment.

Joseph Campbell spoke of our need for a space where we owe nothing to anyone and can simply be and become, a creative space of incubation. That is the common ground of the riverscapes, the flower pot beings and Actaeon Reborn. Compassion, which is intrinsic to offering that space to one another, is its own form of intelligence. We can’t afford to lose it amid technology, weaponry and dualistic thinking.

Great teachers shaped this path. One was Krishnamurti’s “The Flame of Attention.” Another was David Knudsen, whose wilderness camp introduced me to Jungian and Native American studies, the hero’s adventure, and fishing as raising thoughts from the depths we share.

“Heading Home” shows my father in the bow of our little boat on the Delaware, trusting me with the motor. Afterward we’d go home to candlelit dinners and uncensored conversation. I offer Home not as a standard to measure against, but as a creative intention, what the alchemists called “The Great Work.”

Good art often shows an individual struggling with their own limitations. I thank everyone who has made room for me to explore mine.