MODERN & ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

Body Beside Body – three dark arcs on fire Painting on canvas catches three heavily simplified figures mid-movement — the first leaning left, the second standing centrally with arms thrown wide, the third stooped at the lower right: abstract painting in effect, because the bodies are nearly black and each […]

Hand in the Dark – a red edge and a white line Abstract painting lowers a white hand over the torn edge of a red field so the fingers close on it and grip — wall art whose entire drama is carried by one gesture and one line, because a […]

Jewelry II – warm red in the upper corner Wall art tips an orange-red flower into the upper right corner and cuts it at two edges, so the bloom occupies the top two thirds and reaches into the lower third with a single leaf: painting on canvas built on that […]

Sunflowers I – two heads under a spinning sun Wall art turns two sunflowers toward a broad white-gold spiral in the upper right corner, which is where most of the light in the picture enters — decorative painting whose whole warmth comes from that one spun passage. Autumn leaves with […]

Flowers II – six poppies seen close Wall art crowds six large heads into almost the full height of the canvas until they overlap and one is cut clean through by the top edge — modern painting that shows a piece of a field rather than the field. Three face […]

Callas – five heads across the full width Wall art ranges five white callas across the full width of a panoramic canvas and cuts the outer two at the edges, so the row reads as a section of a longer line — decorative painting whose framing is doing the work. […]

In Space IV – one open frame in white Wall art thins its colour down to a single open red rectangle just below centre and leaves the rest of the canvas to white and cream: abstract painting in which the frame is drawn in two parallel passes and left hollow, […]

Autumn I – three trees above gold water Painting on canvas lines three red-orange trees along a dark band of water and sets them under a pale blue sky, the middle one taller so the row never hardens into a fence — decorative painting whose calm comes from that one […]

Studio – brushes in an orbit of ellipses Wall art orbits a run of thin black ellipses around three long shapes with olive tips, laid one below another like brushes set down after work — abstract painting whose subject is the moment the tools are put aside. A horizontal gold […]

Success – a flash across indigo depth Wall art raises a broad pale form out of an indigo and copper ground and opens it in every direction, its centre the brightest point on the canvas: modern painting in which light appears to be coming through the dark rather than sitting […]

Line II – a mosaic of fields and two discs Wall art tiles the canvas into rectangular fields that meet like mosaic, and gives each one its own surface — combed, pitted, or smoothed flat — so the piece is read by touch as much as by colour: decorative painting […]

Traces II – City Rain on Glass A vertical abstraction of runs and streaks that feels like looking through a window into a rainy city. The left third-and-more is dense and warm – a gold-amber column, beside it a near-black pillar, and deep red and maroon streaks – while the […]

Gift – two white flowers over a rust band Wall art belts a grey field with one horizontal rust band and sets two large white flowers above it, their long stems crossing the band and running on to the bottom edge: painting on canvas in which that single horizontal is […]

In Space II – a written mark on emerald Wall art lifts a pale calligraphic mark off a dark emerald-olive ground in the thickest relief on the canvas: abstract painting whose one gesture is legible as writing without belonging to any script. A combed band of close waves runs along […]

Stories III – a rusted wall coming away Painting on canvas peels its rectangular panels back to show the layers underneath, so the surface behaves like plaster coming off a wall rather than like paint on cloth: decorative painting for people who read a picture with their eyes close to […]