Little Briar Rose, 2016. Graphite on Arches hotpress paper, 18’ x 24”.
When designing this piece, my intention was to call upon the children’s book design of the Art Nouveau era and the Eastern European aesthetic of the 1800s. I was thinking specifically of Alphonse Mucha, tinged with the character development quality of….
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Little Kingdom, 13”, graphite on Arches, 2023.
The art that now lives in the frame started with an October walk through a section of the Appalachian Trail in Gardners, PA. There, I took a few reference shots of some mushrooms I saw, including these deadly…
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Gevurah, 22” x 30 graphite on Arches paper. 2011.
Occasionally, an idea for a piece comes out of left field and I just have to deal with it. This was one of those. I was researching the Kabbalah because I find ancient esoteric belief systems to be fascinating and I became quite interested with this complex system which breaks the Judaic godhead into….
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