Beckett – Oil Painting

February 13, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

I handle cardboard media similarly to the way in which I treat canvas. The pieces are sized with clear gesso and finished with a thin coat of damar UV-protective varnish to protect them from the sun.

Embrace – oil painting

February 7, 2025.Reading time 6 minutes.

First completed painting of 2025. 21 years in the making!

When belonging is just longing

January 25, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

Trusting the jewels will emerge out of the rubble.

When painting feels like working with flesh

June 24, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

This painting has an apparent thickness.

Dusting yourself off after “collapsing in the Face of Reality”

January 4, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

“The process and the result are very close to each other. A poem can lift me for a day, sometimes two, three if I think its good. It’s often a very personal experience, because generally, there is no one to tell. Hopefully, the reader experiences an atom of what I am experiencing.” – Raymond King Shurtz