Installation of the Arch mural

Here is an in-progress shot of the mural being installed. It will greet visitors at the ticketing area below the Arch.

Resolution Copper Mine - trade show mural artwork

This 18x60" painting was commissioned by Parks&Co in Phoenix, AZ for Resolution Copper Mine's trade show mural project. It came through my rep in NY, Bernstein&Andriulli and is an 18x60" painting on canvas. It will be digitally enlarged to a 21 foot width for their use. From the first contact e-mail, to the finished product delivery was 10 days.

"Above the Beyond" 30x40" painting

To be installed at the Missouri Botanical Garden's - Best of Missouri Painters Show October 1st

Gateway Arch mural painting completed.

The final 34x60" painting is finished and has been approved. It now will be digitally enlarged to the full 15x27 foot size and printed on fabric to be installed in the Jefferson Memorial Expansion Museum behind the new ticketing area. This will greet visitors with an overall view of the Arch grounds and a taste of history right - an 1850's levee scene, and left - a 1965 Arch construction scene.

Taos Powwow, "Women Record Their Men"

Creating this preliminary color sketch from reference and memories collected from a trip to Taos, New Mexico last summer, I hope to proceed to a large painting this summer. While attending an All Nations Powwow below Taos Mountain on tribal lands as invited "guests" my daughter and I witnessed women recording their men in a drum circle by using their cell phones. While tradition is all around, in costume, in the fact that women are not allowed in the drum circle, the twenty first century is there too in glowing cell phones.

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.