Projects at Large

Movement in art pieces adds a lot of life and I try to accomplish this with color and technique, but with glass that becomes difficult in the tangible sense. So I have my High Water piece that can finally have the sense of water flowing as it does in real time.

This painting is 12 x 8 feet of High Water. Every time it rains my studio floods, so what you are looking at is the doorways to my studio with a flood of water coming in through the front entrance door and all of my paintings floating around the studio. Yes, this really happened. This is how I first discovered the studio floods. This canvas had been completely submerged when I entered one day.

I used to call it swimming in my money, because in a sense every dollar I make is invested into the studio. But as time goes by, paintings grow, dry, and blossom into their forms. I have titled this piece High Water. The significance is both literal and figurative, as I have adapted to my conditions and continue to work in this space.

I now have this painting hanging in centered in their main restaurant. I’ll tell the story of building out the frame another day.

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