Dreams
"Give Ourselves Hope" acrylic and flashe on 20 x 24" canvas in a natural strip frame.
"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate."
Amy Tan - The Hundred Senses
Much of my work is inspired by words, some, by the beauty of the natural world. This series encompasses both and adds the element of water. Shifting pigments in unpredictable ways, water creates new colors that aren’t expected. New forms I hadn’t planned on. These works have the same quality to me as dreams, both the sleeping version and the dreams we have while awake - the ideas we’d like to see happen. Our hopes for our loved ones and the world at large. Each step and every color added becomes something new to hope for, another direction to take, a possibility brought about from a dream.
Detail of Give Ourselves Hope. Acrylic and vinyl on raw canvas
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Dreams To Sell” acrylic and vinyl on 18 x 24” raw canvas in a natural strip frame.
“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
“Lead To Dream” - Acrylic on 12 x 12” raw canvas in a natural strip frame.
“Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.”
Santosh Kalwar
“First A Dream” - Vibrant stain painting using acrylic and vinyl paint on 24 x 20” raw canvas in a natural strip frame.
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems
“Run With You” - acrylic and flashe on 24 x 30" canvas in a natural strip frame.
“I’ve changed my ways a little, I cannot now run with you in the evenings along the shore, except in a dream, and you, if you dream a moment, you see me there.”
Robinson Jeffers
