Drawing & Painting
ART EVOKES THE MYSTERY WITHOUT WHICH THE WORLD WOULD NOT EXIST…
Rene Magritte
Cloaked Women
MYTHS ARE PUBLIC DREAMS, DREAMS ARE PRIVATE MYTHS.
― Joseph Campbell
The first cloaked woman I ever painted was an experiment in tempera resist and crayon etch. It’s where I first started playing with mixed media. I needed something fast to work with, a face with cloth around it came to mind but years later I was drawn back to the subject. I like focusing on the face, but there is an element that came to the surface later as I worked. It’s the whole “Green Man” myth. He was supposed to symbolize the cycle of life, death, and re-birth, represented in the cycle of growth each spring. He’s most commonly depicted as a face surrounded by, or made from, leaves.
I thought a woman was a much better choice for the symbol of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. The cloak is a symbol of the mysteries of those cycles. I’ve painted each in a different season and have plans to paint many more.
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- Reluctant Sojourner – Oil on Canvas
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- Storms of Passion – Mixed Media
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- Mists of Memory – Mixed Media
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- Crimson Dreams – Oil on Canvas
Mermaids
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Myths are the world’s dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render… the ‘radiance’ of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.
― Joseph Campbell (1904 – 1987)
American mythology professor, writer, and lecturer best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.
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- Desire – Mixed Media
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- Rosé Rumination – Mixed Media
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- The Dance – Mixed Media
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- Drifting Into The Blue – Mixed Media
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- Enchanted Dreamer – Mixed Media
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- My First Sunrise – Mixed Media
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- Night of the Sea Gypsy – Mixed Media
Fairies
MYTHS ARE PUBLIC DREAMS, DREAMS ARE PRIVATE MYTHS.
― Joseph Campbell
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- Brash – Mixed Media
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- Twilight – Mixed Media
Elves
MYTHS ARE PUBLIC DREAMS, DREAMS ARE PRIVATE MYTHS.
― Joseph Campbell
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- Rae Dawn Chong – Reference
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- Rae/Queen – Sketch
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- Uma Thurman – Pose Reference
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- Celtic Costume Reference
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- Dawn of the Elf Queen – Oil on Canvas
Landscapes & Animals
MYTHS ARE PUBLIC DREAMS, DREAMS ARE PRIVATE MYTHS.
― Joseph Campbell
Both of these paintings were practice before painting one of the cloaked women. I had never painted snow or an autumn scene, this is where I worked out my color pallet.
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- Wolf Winter – Oil on Canvas
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- Prelude to the Mystic Meadow – Oil on Canvas
Abstract
MYTHS ARE PUBLIC DREAMS, DREAMS ARE PRIVATE MYTHS.
― Joseph Campbell
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- Celebration of the Sol – Acrylic
Illustration
MYTHS ARE PUBLIC DREAMS, DREAMS ARE PRIVATE MYTHS.
― Joseph Campbell
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