Abstract Work
Dragonfly Water Dance
oil on canvas, 30” x 40”
inspired by Animation techniques and the surface of water
Mad Men ll, Oil 30" x 40" Framed $1450.
Blue Note, Oil 24" x 48" SOLD
Orchid Maze Oil 30" x 40" Framed $1450.
Dragonfly dreams the earth-ship. Oil 36" x 48" SOLD
Dragonfly Water Dance, Oil Framed 30" x 40" $1450.
Wave l, Oil 48" x 24" $1400.
View From My Intergalactic Time-ship, Oil 36" x 48" studio framing $2000.
Under and Over, 48" x 30" Oil SOLD
Lydia, Oil 30" x 48" Oil Framed $1550.
Flight Pattern of the Dragonfly l, Oil 20" x 16" studio framing $375.
Wave l, Oil 36" x 48" NFS
Every-when, Oil 36" x 48" Framed $2300.
Honey Over Water, Oil 48" x 30" Framed $1700.
Dragonfly Flight Pattern 3, Oil 36" x48" Framed $2300.
Dragonfly Opri-Ori, Oil 24" x 30" SOLD
Dragonfly Flight Pattern ll, Oil 36" x 48" SOLD
Admit One, Oil 23" x 30" SOLD
Wiz O Whack, 48" x 30" Oil SOLD
Waterfalls Within, Oil 24" x 16" SOLD
When You Were Mine, 36" x 48" Oil $1800.
Abstract Work
My abstract work usually has a sort of golden ratio grid to the underpainting. Organic marks that seem to move or flow, are added on later. This grid, along with the organic marks allow a viewer to move back and forth between stillness and movement. I don’t plan it out too much. I just respond to what happens. I work in an intuitive state until my technical mind weighs in. Usually that dynamic leads me to an impasse and a piece might sit dormant for a year. Meanwhile, new works begin, with a new theme or exploration, until that series also succumbs to this impasse. Then I’ll go back to the earlier pieces and finally, I can see where they need to go.
This way of working can lead to surprises. Often it is the viewer who points out a bird, or a beast to me. These elements are not planned or staged. They are discovered in the way you might find a dog in a cloud. Once I see that element, I might go back in to bring it out. But, since viewers bring these things to my attention, once a work is finished, they may ever be retouched, just waiting for someone else to see them.
“One moment I see it this way, and the next moment, I see it that way, That’s one my favorite things about your work.” J.T.