Happy Tuesday...

My current group of paintings are called “paintings from beyond the hedge.”

Your average European village, in times gone by, was surrounded by a hedge or woods. Beyond that hedge was unknown land, beyond their known perception... i.e. the Other World, a world of myths.  In my work I feel a sense of painting that other world.

Michael de Ming said it well...."Myths, like alchemy, and like art, are attempts to catch a glimpse of the undiscovered country.  They take everyday existence and transform it into something remarkable.  It is through these stories that misfortunes are transformed into adventures, attractions are transformed into everlasting love, and the process of life and death is transformed into a magnificent mechanism that operates beyond our line of sight." 

Dragon Guide

acrylic on canvas

     5"x5"

     $225.