Recent Paintings

My art degree is in Drawing and Painting, primarily because the drawing and painting faculty at the school I attended were better in those areas, and because of my belief that drawing is the keystone discipline of visual expression. It's hard to understand form without being able to express it as a simple drawn line. This recent series of paintings is based on my love of the hibiscus flower - along with a few other flowers thrown in. I had a goal in mind of creating an entire environment around hibiscus imagery since I think it's one of the most sensuous flowers in the floral kingdom. I had also hoped to put together a dozen or so of the flower paintings and see if I could show them somewhere, because I like to think of them as one larger unit, but that's the hard part of art to me. Most of these paintings measure 36"x36". The tulip painting is 48"x48."