THE ROARING BELL
Houlme, Orcas Island WA
January 2025





Procession
48x35 
Oil on canvas


This is a memory of Halloween 1999, Petrolia CA.
Dark sky, paper machê puppets, Environmentalist theater, a sheet shrouded accordion player leading a procession from the cemetery full of tiny graves (scarlet fever 1909) through the invasive eucalyptus over-growth.





 





The Roaring Bell 
44x36
Oil on canvas

Items from a Tokyo flea market. Name translated from text painted on the wall of a shrine in the snowy mountains of Gunma.










Pink Sheet
42x34
Oil on canvas

Oil on pink bedsheet 











Green Ophelia
48x60
Oil on canvas

August 2024-January 2025
This painting began as a study of ‘Ophelia’ (1851) by John Millais. After many changes and iterations I chose to forgo a figure and instead paint the raw land overgrown and wild, post-human, hopefully a green future. 











Dark Water, Clam Consciousness
18x24
Oil on Canvas

Oyster Field at night, Agricultural light pollution over the hill near Vancouver.









Bundle to Ward of Bugs & Disease
16x18
Oil on canvas

Cedar Bundle framed with fragrant cedar wood.