top of page
"I see infinity in your art"
- Ranjini Lassnig
The narrow vertical canvases are my favorite because they seem to accentuate the theme of flow: energy flow, perception, connection, integration. Many of these begin with ink drips followed by filling in the spaces and adding structures. Painting is about setting up contrasting forces and then exploring how they relate to each other.
"Live Streaming" 24x48 acrylic ink and paint. SOLD
White lines flow from a vibrant source/sky.
"Love Itself" 24 x 48 acrylic paint and ink on canvas.
The first piece I paired with a title from the Leonard Cohen album Ten New Songs.
Elusive
After about 25 titles I realized the title would always be "elusive." Too many threads of meaning intertwining like the threads themselves. One of my other favorite titles was "We Both Knew This Would Happen".
Sky Drips Gold. 24 x 48. mixed media on canvas. 2025
I had just finished the piece covered with feathers and felt the attraction to put one in the box. Something about the sky and the reference to the Divine, the flow, the birds.
Costume Makes It Visible. 24 x 48 mixed media on canvas.
Sheer fabric in a dance-like drape rests in thread and cut-out squares with grids and lace. Costume is to the dance as body is to soul. The unseen is revealed in the illusion of movement and form.
Beneath, Between and Beyond. 24x48 mixed media on canvas. SOLD
I put words from "Alexandra Leaving" to this one. "Even though she sleeps upon your satin, even though she wakes you with a kiss....."
"Imaginary Day" 24x48 mixed media on canvas. 2026
Acrylic paint, ink, thread, attached canvas on canvas, fabric. The think about mixed media is the chance to say something over and over in different words: a line in ink continues in thread. The red fabric mirrors the red paper on the attached square. The square inside the rectangle. I seem to be getting more dimensional, more 3D.
"Life Span" 24 x 48 mixed media on canvas.
Transparent light-filled areas of ink dripped and spread within a deep red background. The white streak is central, but you see it continues in a faded version of itself, as though it is alive in the middle and its soul continues invisible after it fades.
"Continuity" Currently on display at Iowa Artisans Gallery.
24 x 48 mixed media. A Collaged work on paper with ink that continues the colors of the transferred painting.
"If It Be Your Will" (Leonard Cohen song)
24 x 48 acrylic paint and ink on canvas. The ink is allowed to flow but I managed the diagonal slant and smeared it to create the spaces for deliberate detail. Up close you see the lace-like visual texture.
"Alexandra Leaving". SOLD 24 x 48 acrylic ink and paint on canvas. Part of the tribute to Leonard Cohen series, and titled after the poetic song about facing your unraveling life and love with courage and dignity. Cohen wrote this after Cavafy's poem about the loss of the city: Alexandria.
Drips of Ink start the show, then color blending, then fine lines create fabric-like visual texture. But in truth, it was back and forth many times, putting in the lines, then putting more background, back to the lines, until the balance was right and focus sharp and the mind, well, the mind still but excited.
"Boogie Street" 24 x 48 (Leonard Cohen song) mixed media on canvas.
Ink drips with horizon-line structure. Small flowing lines in white and yellow and black. A kind of messy calligraphy with large and small brushstrokes. The song is about the material / physical world of desire and sensuality with transient spiritual experiences.
"In My Secret Life" (from Leonard Cohen song) 24 x 48 mixed media.
"Real Silk and Cheap Chiffon" 24 x 48 acrylic on canvas.
By the Rivers Dark I wandered on....
"Halleleujah" (from the tribute to Leonard Cohen series). 24 x 48 mixed media on canvas. SOLD. These were all painted before I titled them after Cohen songs but it alerted me to the significance of songs and poetry for abstract art, and each painting sent me on a journey into the songs and their meanings within the works.
24 x 48" acrylic paint and ink. Layers of yellow. There's a subtle effect from putting the tiny lines on top of a similar color. You get a kind of lace. You get a sense, maybe, of how energy under matter is teeming with tiny particles (or waves) and how much silence is packed with creativity.
bottom of page