Untitled, 30 inches by 24 inches, oil paint on canvas with a walnut frame, $1500, Prints Available, This painting is dedicated to the children of the mentally ill, alcoholics or addicts. They live their lives waiting for the next crisis. The anxiety of impending doom hums constantly over their head. Peace can be found in mediation and nature.
You Are a Shining Star, 16 inches by 20 inches, oil paint on canvas in a black floating frame, $1500, Prints Available, Poet S. L. Heaton, "I spent so many years walking on eggshells…never doing or saying the right thing. One day, I decided I had enough and stomped all over them. Those broken eggshells cut me deeply as I walked away…but this…was the most beautiful pain I had ever felt."
Why?, 48 inches by 60 inches, oil on canvas, NFS, Whenever someone commits suicide, this is the question.
Hope, 12 inch by 16 inch, oil paint on canvas in a black floating frame, $350, Is this person drowning or surfacing? Those who struggle with mental illness typically say drowning. Their caregivers see the light and know they are close to breaking through.
Joshua's Reward, 30 inches by 24 inches, oil paint on canvas in walnut floating frame, $1500 The sober journey is not an easy one. When you reach the top, you find you are alone. Alienated from your drinking pals. Alienated by all the people you burnt when you were using. However, the reward is great. Do you see Joshua?
Enlightenment, 30 inches by 24 inches, Mixed media using oil paint, oil sticks, oil pastels and Austrian crystals, $1500, Prints Available, Eskimo Proverb: Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.