Refugee Series
Axiom of War
Part of my series on the Refugees in Europe. This continues my new relationship with negative space. So many images swarm the headlines, to sit and study just one can tell so much more.
Painting: Gouache on Paper. 30″ x 22″
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Portrait of a Syrian Family
The images that trickle in to our news feeds have really touched my heart. This is the beginning piece in a new series about the Refugees struggle through the lens of photo journalists.
Painting: Gouache on Paper. 30″ x 22″
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Open the Door
Continuing in my series on Refugees. This image was taken from a photo journalist at a scene where Refugees were being tear gassed as they tried to cross a border in Europe. The more involved I get with the series, I am finding the crowds very interesting. As I picked my way through the image, I realized that a lot of the crowd were photo journalists documenting the incident, it became hard to discern who was who in the crowd.
I took a chance and placed water on the image of the man after I had completed him, the blurred watermark around him feels like the crowd that was propping him up.
Painting: Gouache on Paper. 22″ x 30″
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The Globalization of Indifference
This is a continuation of the my refugee series. The inspiration photo was taken in a camp in Europe, where tents lined up in rows, and the families are trying to maintain some sense of normalcy. The look of numbness from this father holding his child just sweeps through me. Just a pair in the midst of so many.
Painting: Gouache on Paper. 30″ x 22″
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Close to the Limits of our Possibilities
This mother was photographed in a refugee camp. She was trying to walk through the massive puddles, of mud that have become the terrain of many of the camps.
I threw a wash of water on the completed painting, and let the colors run, it implies that the two beings are being washed away, forgotten.
Painting: Gouache on Paper. 30″ x 22″
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Area of Focus
This is the second piece in my new series on the refugee situation. This little girl is being lifted over a fence, mos likely into another country. It is unclear if her family made it over the barbed wire. She is cloaked with Jasmine Flowers, the flower of Syria, as protection
Painting: Gouache on Paper. 30″ x 22″
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The Storm
A young water protector in Standing Rock, North Dakota.
This piece is in a private collection, not for sale. Prints available.
Gouache on Paper 30″ x 22″
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Blasted Hope
I have been touched by the events in Syria and the surrounding area. I came across this image of this beautiful young man, and felt the need for Hope , in the shape of a Flower bomb
Painting: Oil on Canvas. 29″ x 29″
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