ALLEGORIES

Allegory: al·le·go·ry, a literary or artistic genre; a symbolic representation of something.

If art and literature give a sense of patterns, of laws operating beyond conventional thought…art brings these laws near to the surface of consciousness. (Mark Booth: The Secret History of the World)

Painting to me is a discovery process.   I feel that I’m only beginning, just scratching the surface, at best undergoing initiation rites. I use colors and forms as materia prima to create something that was there only in thought forms. In this, as well as in all my projects, characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing different meanings. I express these meanings through scenes acted out by human, animal, or mythical characters. The images and scenes are account of events or series of events from personal history and self fashioned fables. The need to hide from the world and at the same time yearning to be a part of it sends me on a continuing search. I wonder whether my perception is subjective or is indeed a part of universally significant reality. When others relate to and find meaning in my work, I am reassured that my perception is indeed a part of deeper understanding.  

                                                     Click on each image for detail

            Apparition, 40" x 30"

              Into Origins II, 61" x 48"

               Aspirations, 40" x 30"

              Conspiracy, 48" x 36"

                    Wind II, 48" x 36"

               Persephone, 48" x 36"

              In Memory, 30" x  40"

   Serenading the Porcupine, 36" x 48"