The Katy Land Trust - billboard design

 Here is the most recent design of a series of billboards using my paintings that will be installed mural size on the sides of grain elevators along the Katy Trail to promote the Katy Land Trust.

Final painting: "Co-Evolution" 40x80"

Just completed and to be unveiled Sunday April 17th for the permanent collection of the Missouri Botanical Garden: “The Co-Evolution of Pollinators and Evening Primrose” commemorates the broad sweep of contributions made by Dr. Peter Raven to the Missouri Botanical Garden and the world. The work derives from a quote by Dr. Raven himself, “...to master the diversity of living organisms and use the properties of those organisms as a kind of palette to build sustainability”: A profusion of diversity aligns on the equatorial regions of the world below the dome of the Botanical Garden, while in the center pollinators create a vertical axis, dividing on the left a suggestion of the Japanese garden that balances on the right, Dr. Raven’s 25 years of research in China. Overlaying the composition are swirls of Raven’s Manzanita and clarkia franciscana, and curves of chemistry and biology book-ended by hands of the viewer suggest our responsibility and the fragility of life on Earth.

The first impression of the painting should be of boundless energy, like that of Dr. Raven, organized by an Art Deco influence favored by the Ravens...

The painting will hang in the entrance vestibule of the Schaumburg Auditorium.

"Orphans of Perryville" - 40x60" commissioned painting.

Just finished, this large painting was commissioned by Timothy Drone (portrayed second from right), to place his neighbor orphaned brothers Dalton and Justin (center), in a 1940's church picnic setting in hometown Perryville, MO. The boys were adopted and are being raised by their grandparents Gary and Norma (depicted far left and center respectively), and are cherished by the Drone's and their community. In the painting Mr. Drone looks over blueprints of a home he is building while chatting with stone mason Jim Brown suggesting a size for stone steps. Gary is the owner of a heating and cooling business, while family friends, Kim and Mary (depicted holding the mules in the middle distance and delivering pie to the table), fill out the boys circle of "family".

Gateway Arch ticket booth mural project / update

The latest round of sketches presented to The National Park Service and PGAV Architectural firm have morphed into the Arch construction scene on the left and a St Louis levee scene on the right, both reduced in scale making more room for the center "map" of the Arch grounds, contained now in a rectangle with foreground figures interrupting and overlaying the corners. The map will include the Illinois side of the river and westward to City Garden. I await a bit more reference photographs of the Arch construction and then I promised to have for the clients a final sketch, and color rendering. At that point they should release me to begin the 53x60" painting, due by the first of May.

"Hills Beyond" painting just finished...

This painting, just finished, is a private commission by a couple for their master bedroom. It measures 32x84" and was a landscape suggested by them.

Foundry Art Centre poster

Commissioned some years ago by an art group restoring a WW2 foundry on the Missouri River in St. Charles, MO, the sketch was developed into the color study but never saw the light of day due to lack of resources. My flat-files in the studio are overflowing with undeveloped pieces that maybe I can bring out and dust off...

Kauffman Foundation "Kansas City" Mural

This is a crude "in progress" digital capture of the mural as it stands - about 50% completed. It is a 8x32 foot mural to be installed at the Kauffman Foundations HQ in Kansas City. It will lead the visitor through a large entrance area into a meeting room that will have a second mural on the subject of Kauffman and the World. That second mural will measure 7x80 feet.