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WELCOME:
Thank-you for visiting my website. I hope you enjoy the artwork and images I have listed here, and I hope you will find something you like enough to hang in your home. |
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11x14 limited edition prints, hand-tinted:
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Least Bittern
hand-tinted print |
$35.00 |
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Kingfisher
hand-tinted print |
$35.00 |
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MAN V/S NURTURE
a new project for 2012:
My new show is a pro-feminist celebration of Charlottesville men that have chosen careers and/or public services that value nurturing qualities. Why would I create such a show? My intention with the show is to oppose popular sexist thinking like "women are naturally more nurturing than men because of their physiology" and "men should not cry nor display emotion such as tenderness because it is unmanly". Notions like that hurt both men and women by limiting men's options of self-expression and creating "double binds" in which they have an expected role that contradicts a masculine norm. And I think all people benefit when men are empowered to choose non-violent, non-hierarchical careers, so my show will call attention to the way men are already accessing their innate nurturing abilities and empathy.
To read more about this project and follow my progress,
please visit my Current Project page.
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ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE
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Dirt
graphite/pencil
FOR SALE: $265
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Krista
graphite/pencil
FOR SALE: $265
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Justin Wilcox
graphite/pencil
FOR SALE: $550
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
I have worked mostly in pencil the past decade, but I would like to paint more this year since oil has such an appeal to me. Also, much of my work has been going to private commissions, and I hope to have more free work for myself to draw what I like. I have raised my prices and am pleased that customers seem willing to pay the higher prices. Maybe I was pricing my work too low.
I began a series of pencil portraits in 2009, and I am drawing people I met on the mountain where I lived. Most of the people I choose to draw are living unconventional lifestyles, and many attempt to integrate self-sustainability into their homes and lives. The mountain I called home is a sensitive ecosystem, and I shared the land with pileated woodpeckers, screech owls and timber rattlesnakes. With each year I spent on the mountain, I became more familiar with the flora and fauna that inhabited the forest there; and I would look forward to seasonal returns and departures of edible plants like toothwort, trout lilly and thistle.
I attended the College of William & Mary and majored in fine arts and East Asian studies. I prefer to work in pencil/graphite and oil on canvas, but I have also worked in colored pencil and watercolors. Right now, I like painting in oil the best.
I also love the exacting work I can acheive with pencils, but it takes many hours of work to complete each piece. I carefully blend my pencil strokes to create a softer tone than you might expect - in fact, a casual glance at one of my drawings doesn't really reveal that I used pencil. But look close and you'll see the lines and marks. I hope you'll enjoy owning my work as much as I enjoy creating it!
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