On-line Art Show and Sale

THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES

On-line Art Show and Sale

ENDS JULY 2nd

Recently we found out that my sister has breast cancer and suddenly life has taken on a new meaning for our whole family.  I am so impressed with her strength of character and courage.  But beyond that she has maintained her  wickedly funny sense of wit and humor in spite of it all.  Since she moved to Wisconsin several years ago, it is hard for me to be able to afford the trip to visit her.  I am planning a trip to go visit her and her family in July.  I decided to have an online art sale to help raise money to finance the trip.  

I started going through my inventory and pulling out artwork that hadn't seen the light of day in years and other artworks that no one had ever seen but me. Over the next several days I will be posting images of art from my inventory.  Please feel free to contact me to discuss any of these artworks.

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acrylic with mixed media on board
framed - 17-1/4" x 21-1/4"
$275

Heart Chakra

Not long ago I received an email from a woman who was interested in purchasing a Seasons of the Soul print.  I always inquire about how someone found out about the print as part of my ongoing marketing research.  She said she had seen it in a therapist's office and she went on to say that she had just lost her son in a freak accident while he was away at college.  She said she just wanted to sit and stare at it.  

Every time that someone reaches out to me to tell me a personal story about how Seasons of the Soul has touched their lives, I am given an extra reason for being.  The sacrifice I have to make in order to keep making art, and framing it, and marketing it in hopes of breaking even doesn't seem quite as painful...

But this time, it was different.  Perhaps it was because I was seeing through different eyes...  But maybe I have been looking at it in totally the wrong way. Maybe... just maybe, I have a moral obligation to get this work out there.  After all, I knew when I first published it as an open edition signed lithograph over 20 years ago, that I wanted the price to be affordable and I wanted to market it so that it was accessible to a wide range of people.

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hand signed lithograph
image size approx. 7" x 29"
$40

Seasons of the Soul

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4uK3tIisnk

click on the link above to view slideshow video

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watercolor
image size:  approx. 11" x 11"
matted and framed (w/glass)
$275

Treasure Beneath My Feet

Sometimes  beauty is right beneath my feet and I cannot see it if I am not in the moment.

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mixed media wall sculpture
size:  11" x 11"
unframed
$225


Ancient Dreamer

  

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watercolor with ink
unframed (matted)
mat size: 14"x14"
$90

Magic Hands, Healing Hands

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watercolor
framed
approx. 15" x 19"
$175

Poppy Pollination 

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watercolor
image size: approx. 12" x 16"
unframed: $175
framed (w/mat & glass)
$245

FREE SPIRIT

SOLD
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watercolor
image size:  approx.  9" x 13-1/2"
14-1/4" x 19-1/4" framed
$175

TULIP WITH BEE

SOLD
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pencil drawing on paper
image size: approx. 13" x 16"
unframed: $90
framed: $145

Earth Spirit

                                  

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watercolor w/ mixed media
framed w/ mat & glass
21-3/4" x 21-3/4"
$295

DUALITY

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mixed media
framed
approx. 47" x 29"
$4,700

Soul Map to Freedom

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detail

SOLD
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watercolor
framed
approx. 13-1/2" x 36"
$285

Sea Horses 

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watercolor and mixed media
framed
aprox. 9" x 9"
$125

Open Hearts series - #215

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signed and numbered limited edition giclee'
on 100% rag paper
unframed
image size: 17-1/2" x 24"
$125

The Source

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fine art print
hand signed
image size: approx.  15" x 30"
unframed
$75

Streams of Life
North Carolina's
40,000 miles of creeks and rivers

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detail

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mixed media
numbered series
9" x 9" framed
$125 each

Open Hearts

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watercolor
framed
approx.  14-1/2" x 18-1/4"
$175

Yellow Tulip

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pencil drawing
matted unframed: 13" x 13-1/2"
$65
framed
$120

Dream Tree

SOLD

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mixed media
numbered series
framed: 9" x 9"
$125 each

Open Hearts

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mixed media
wall sculpture made up of 3 separate sections
approx. 11" x 36"
$695

Eye of the Cave 

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watercolor and mixed media
framed
16-1/2" x 27-1/4"
$275

Dream Weave
cityscapes

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detail

watercolor and mixed media
framed
16-1/2" x 27-1/4"
$275

Dream Weave
ancient memories

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detail

SOLD

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mixed media
numbered series
framed:  9" x 9"
$125 each

Open Hearts

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acrylic on masonite
framed
14" x 18"
$165

Callas

                                                                                             thank you

"What would life be
   if we had no courage to attempt      anything?"
                                  Vincent Van Gogh








More ART coming soon... 

FREE SPIRIT

The butterfly wings open revealing the free spirit within...

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The concept for this watercolor was inspired by a set of prints I saw years ago that showed each of the signs of the zodiac represented as a butterfly design.  It was very '70s but I liked the way the artist had used the format of a butterfly for the symbols.

Eye of the Cave

This work was inspired by a trip to the Pacific Northwest.  I stood in a little alcove and snapped a photo looking out at the ocean...  It wasn't until later that I realized it looked like the shape of an eye.

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This is a mixed media wall sculpture.  It is made up of three separate squares that hang together on the wall.  The dimensions of the work are 11"x 36" approx.

OPEN HEART Series, #228

The connection between music and the human heart is as deep and mysterious as the ancient river flowing through time...

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SOLD

OPEN HEARTS - New Additions

Since I have been making the Open Hearts over the years, they have evolved into a special creative outlet for me... Each one is like a special prayer mandala.  I have been practicing meditation for the past decade or so.  Sometimes when trying to clear the mind, it is helpful to have something to rest one's attention on. 

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Seasons of the Soul Slideshow

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Seasons of the Soul Slideshow

Seasons of the Soul

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It has been over 20 years since Seasons of the Soul was initially published as an open edition hand signed lithograph.  Since then thousands have been purchased.  Many of those were bought with the intention of giving them as gifts.  I found that many who bought them worked in the helping and healing fields, such as psychotherapists and counselors, ministers, massage therapists, hypnotherapists, life coaches, etc...  And they got them to hang in their offices.  And people saw them there and some of them would contact me to purchase a print from time to time.  And those people had their own stories to tell about how they discovered and connected with this artwork.  And it is those stories that keep me going when I get discouraged.

The individual figures for the Seasons of the Soul originated as doodles in a sketchbook over a difficult period of time in my twenties.  Then some time passed.  About a year or so later I happened to pick up that particular sketchbook and flipped through it and noticed the figures and thought, wow, it is almost like they are telling a story...  So I drew them again and arranged them in a line and there it was, a visual story told with stick figure symbols.  I was amazed.  Where did this come from?  It obviously came from my subconscious but it is like it existed on some level in its entirety before I could even become aware of it.  And then it dawned on me, it was incomplete.  Something was definitely missing, but what?  At the time I had ten figures and the last one in the series was the "harmony" figure (although, at this time there were no subtitles for the figures).  What could it be?  And how was I going to find it?  I knew that it wasn't just going to be a matter of thinking something up, it had to come to me from the same place the other figures came...  Weeks went by and I still had no clue what the next figure would be.  Somehow I sensed that I would know it when I saw it.  And then it happened!  I saw it and it was only for a split second but that was enough.  I was watching the old television series, Fame, and Debbie Allen was dancing and then for an instant, in mid-stride she struck a pose that froze in my mind and became what I later labeled as "movin' out", the eleventh and last figure of the series.