rick in seattle

rick 34x55cm (sold)

obscurely romantic paintings for valentine's day

detail:

             pilgrimage to cythera

89X55cm

the retrograde goddess 13x21cm (Sold)

last kiss 34X21cm

cathar treasure 72x94cm

the green fountain 55X34cm

the tree (bigger than a bread box but smaller than an elephant)

the wine dark sea 21x13cm
one groups golden age is usually another's time of bondage and struggle but i still like the bowie song. (sold)

5 paintings on the 4th orb

out on the silent planet

21x21cm (sold)

                                                       

dr raczkowski and his eggplant escape pod

in an alternate universe there is a professor who spends more time playing chess on the internet and less writing articles and such. this universe is also increasingly litigious and there it is cheaper for universities to tell the not getting tenure professors they are going to give a paper in nome alaska. instead they are drugged on the plane which flies to kazakhstan where they are placed on a surplus soviet era rocket and sent to mars, where if they can find it they can teach at the university's satellite campus. 55x34cm

el conquistador

people are always asking what the shovel is for and I tell them it comes in handy a lot but if you don't wait a while it can melt your gloves. 34x21cm (sold)

ryan on mars

ryan got a car for graduation and he has promised to give me rides in it when i get out there. he has quite a rock collection I understand. 34x21cm

dr kay on mars

his realtor was a former housemate he trusted but you should really visit a place before you buy. 55X34cm (sold)

                              

various visions of venus

                                                                                                                             

dr raczkowski underground 21x12cm

                                       inanna lurks in the shadow

the retrograde goddess 13x21cm

                                 860 degrees F in the shade (sold)

                         

stories by the sea

embarcation 21x21cm (sold)

sail boat 13x21cm (sold)

katy 21x34cm

ship wreck 68x42cm (sold)

the return to olympia 55x34cm

last kiss 34x21cm

picnic at the end of the world 34x21(sold)

new old ballard 55x34cm

aurel's carpet 55x89cm (sold)

 

                  for eight years I lived by the water

                with a view of key port to the north

              and brownsville to the west. seven of

               the paintings incorporate these views

            while for the rest i found inspiration

          in such far off places as ballard.

 
                                                                   

interiors

                    how this bunch of paintings came about-

my studio space where i lived on the sly (it had a sink and i had a thin red futon which i rolled up and sat on while i painted) was slated for demolition or the building was being renovated so i needed a new space or spaces. i set off to look with several other painters and we had the luck of finding an older couple who had a building they wanted us to use and not only were we going to have our own bedrooms but upstairs there was an interior, windowless room that was none the less bright with peeling yellow ochre paint.

in another life there was a time when my son let me read some time life art books to him. he liked the pictures and the dreadful prose put him to sleep after a page or so. we started out with watteau who doesn’t figure in this show, then moved on to picasso who then had a big show at the Seattle Art Museum which we visited several times, not without some behavior that brought the disapprobation of the guards.

the hall 21x21cm (sold)

pom pom 21x21 (sold)

ochre room 21x21cm

yellow room 21x21 (sold)

umber room 13x21cm (sold)

lucia underground 13x21cm

madeline 42x42cm

sheherazade 34x34cm

anne marie 21x21

      

lucia underground

lucia is wary of strangers, even ones she has known for years. 13x21cm