
“War Torn”
































“Jenni’s China Dream”
Oil/Panel
22 x 32″
2021
This painting started out as a conventional portrait. I wanted to depict some of Jenni’s natural beauty and sweetness. However, while she sat for me, naturally she told me stories. And the stories soon entered the painting in the form of an American flag that was then painted over by a Chinese flag. That was in turn painted over by layers of hazy “pollution” and environmental degradation. Eventually I slapped a black blob of paint over her mouth to suggest the violent muzzling of freedom of expression and then layers of glossy polyurethane as if to gloss over the whole thing which strangely both pulled it together as a composition and made it seem even a tad tawdry.
“The Meat House”
Oil/Panel
22 x 16″
2021
