"Dear Trixie"

"Dear Trixie" posthumous portrait of our lovely friend Lisa Hammer, pen name Trixie Kitsch,
29 x 22" mixed media


Lisa was kind and generous, a talented artist and writer, she had a biting sense of humor
and a heart of gold. She saw through our veneer and loved our souls.
The world lost a great woman at Valentine's week, 2014.

Farewell Dear Trixie, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. 

"Thinking Itself Is Love - Self Portrait with Brain Tumor"

"Thinking Itself Is Love (Self Portrait with Brain Tumor)"
16 x 8" mixed media

After thinking about this project for over a year, I finally made this self portrait. I used references from my MRI scans that were taken before neurosurgery to remove a benign Meningioma brain tumor. I am doing very well, nearly two years post-op. Thank you to everyone who supported me during this most trying time of my life. I really don't know where I would be without all of you.

I have spent a great deal of time thinking about how a broken heart might effect the mind and physical and mental health. Forgiveness and Love are always the answer. 

"…the heart is not broken, in the sense that it does not exist before the break. But it is the break itself that makes the heart. The heart is not an organ, and neither it is a faculty. It is: that I is broken and traversed by the other where its presence is most intimate and its life is most open. The beating of the heart - rhythm of the partition of being, syncope of the sharing of singularity - cuts across presence, life, consciousness. That is why thinking - which is nothing other than the weighing or testing of the limits, the ends, of presence, of life, of consciousness - thinking itself is love."

 ~ Jean Luc Nancy, Shattered Love

"Dove and Peonies" Commission

"Dove and Peonies"

 

 

 

Commissioned charcoal drawing on beige paper with white pastel pencil. 10 x 8"

Magnolia and Dove

"Magnolia and Dove"

 8 x 8" charcoal and white pastel pencil on beige paper. A gift for a friend.

Tim: Portrait Commission

This portrait was commissioned by the subject, great character is evident!

"Tim" 20 x 16" carbon pencil on ivory French Rives paper.

Full composition

Detail

Cardinal

For my Mom. <3

5.5 x 3.5" brown ink and watercolor on paper.

Lily of the Vale

Walnut ink on vintage handmade paper, 14 x 10" 


And the 
Naiad-like lily of the vale,
Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale 
~
Percy Bysshe 
Shelley,
from The 
Sensitive Plant 
Part 1