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“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
20198.5″ x 11”
2019
“Memory of Landscape”
Oil on panel
48” x 33”
2019
 
“Conceptual Impressionist Painting #2 “
Oil on panel
48″ x 30″
2019
 
This painting is part of my conceptual impressionist body of work.  Like many of these works I used both brush work and rollers to convey the energy of nature as well as the ways in which we think about it. Rather than a consistent view of a particular place, the use of the roller and the way it makes marks give me the ability to essentially collage many views on the same painting.  The views are similar yet unique the way we may remember something or a place. The memory is a little altered each time we remember it depending on what else we may be thinking or feeling at the time.
 
Overall these pieces have a mood. Some may even suggest themes such as global warming or an emotional state like exuberance or depression. However, these are only the fortuitous results of the process and the viewer’s own response to the work. I rarely set out to create a particular theme or impression when I do these works. I simply keep working on them until they resonate as being complete in some broad intuitive sense.
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019

“Conceptual Impressionist Piece #3”
Oil on panel
48” x 24”
2019

This piece was created in the summer of 2019 in my new studio at the old Rainier Brewery in Seattle. This was my first studio in over 5 years. Here, I was able to explore in larger format the ideas I had been working on for years on small pieces of paper in hotel rooms and small apartments.

These paintings are created using traditional abstract impressionist techniques of loose open brush work. However, they also depend heavily for their effect on this use of rollers or brayers as they are sometimes called. These are the tools that print-makers use to load ink onto a plate for printmaking. Here, the roller is used to apply paint directly to the painting, more like the way a house painter uses a roller to apply paint to a wall.

The roller is at once both mechanical with a clearly defined left and right edge and loose edges depending on how one handles it. However, the effects can be as rich and varied as those achieved with a brush. It also has the ability to convey repetition with the completion of each revolution of the roller. This is something a brush simply can not do. I exploited this component to suggest collage and properties of memory which is why I think of these paintings as conceptual impressions rather than “optical” impressions. They are not just a visual impression of something. They are also an impression of how we think about or remember something.

“Global Melting”
Oil on panel
48” x 33”
2019

This painting could also be called “conceptual impressionist piece #…”  It was created with rollers and brushes and like most of my work in this vein it did not start out to be a painting about global warming or even to attempt to look like melting glacial ice. I was a mountaineer for a period of my life and I am familiar with what glacial ice looks like in the summer and when it is in retreat. Hence, that is how this piece got its name. However, it could be something else entirely to another viewer.

“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
2019
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
1996
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
1996
“Roller Paintings”
Oil/paper
8.5″ x 11”
1996