the virtual gallery
launched 13 November 2020 (World Kindness Day)
- Exhibit Open
Happy Veteran’s Day! Happy World Kindness Day! Welcome to my virtual gallery. I am excited to share… Read more: Exhibit Open
The Gallery
The second half of the video has up close video and pictures of the art. Hope you enjoy!
Music: The Piano Guys (A Thousand Years and You Say / Sonata Pathétique (Piano/Cello))
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil, using the zorn palette
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.
Psalm 62:8
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10
Art, 1999
conté
Numbers 6:24-26
24 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Studio Research in 2-D Media 2, Fall 2020
acrylic
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
Psalm 31:24
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
History of Graphic Design, Fall 2007
Indian ink
Koi Fish:
The meaning in Japan is good fortune or luck. They also are associated with perseverance in adversity and strength of purpose.
Symbolic of courage.
The koi is also a popular symbol for the family, especially in Japan.
Symbols of strength and masculinity in Japan, Koi are known as the “warrior’s fish”.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Psalm 28:7
Art for Children, Spring 2002
tempera paint & chalk
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Ephesians 4:2
Art for Children, Spring 2002
ink
The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalm 136:9
Printmaking, Fall 2019
ink
middle : Sunset & Stars
circa 2008
fibers
right: B & W Lino Print – Journie
Printmaking, Fall 2019
ink
Sunset & Stars (fibers)
Colossians 2:1-7
1For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Roie (Print)
Psalm 148
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the Lord.
Journie (Print)
Psalm 36:5-6
5 Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
Ceramics, Fall 2009
Genesis 2:10-15
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Wheel, Combination, & Hand-built
Ceramics, Fall 2009 and Spring 2019
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Psalm 91:4
Matthew 10:29-31
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Psalm 104:1, 12, 16-17, 24, 31-35
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Isaiah 64:8
Deuteronomy 26:1-2
1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
Isaiah 35
1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew 27:66
Matthew 6:19-21
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
2 Corinthians 4:7-12
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
Matthew 6:25-34
25 Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Revelation 22:1-2
1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah 29:16
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalm 69:34
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119:105
Snowy Owl
Ceramics, Spring 2019
Kintsugi– Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum…or, as with the owl, teal glitter.
Psalm 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Children’s Alphabet Book – S&T
Illustration, Fall 2016
pen
And Jesus saith unto him, the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew 8:20
Art History, Spring 2008
indian ink
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Psalm 93:4
Sometimes art creates itself.
After spending hours and days meticulously drawing this piece, the white Indian ink ran out of the lines on the first stroke of the pen. Ruined. Absolutely, ruined. How could this be fixed?
Suddenly, the idea hit me…white-wash. Perfect. I will brush white ink over the entire piece. It was very difficult to bring myself to hide the detailed work that I had so painstakingly worked at achieving.
As I brushed over the drawing with the white Indian ink, I thought about how sometimes we can ruin things in life and in our world. I developed the idea for the artist statement, and when it was time brought the drawing into class, smiling, I told the teacher, “Sometimes art creates itself.” She smiled back and said it does. She loved my drawing. What was a failure had become a success.
Later, I found out about the Japanese word, wabi-sabi. It was really fitting for what happened with this piece. Making the best out of life. Accepting what is, instead of what we wanted.
If we allow God to, He can fix our lives and make something better out of our mess. God is mightier than all that happens in our lives.
Artist Statement:
Wave is a modern interpretation of the Japanese woodblock print Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai made in 1832. In Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa “an enormous wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa; Mount Fuji can be seen in the background (Wikipedia).”
This powerful piece shows nature’s force over man. Like many Japanese works man is part of the world around him, this is demonstrated by both the size of the people in the boats and the way the boats and people are hardly noticeable in the water. Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa has been influential to other artist ever since its creation. “Monet and Degas bought them (along with Chinese porcelains) in great numbers, and van Gogh, a great admirer of Hokusai, insisted that his own work was ‘founded on Japanese art (Book 5 p.120).’”
My ink drawing, Wave, has been influenced by it as well, but it has a modern twist. Wave is about man’s influence on the environment. The modern man has done much harm to the environment, as cities become larger and pollution increases. Sometimes one forgets one’s own effects on nature—Wave is a reminder to the viewer of what can happen to nature if man continues in his destructive ways. When nature is destroyed so is man.
Wave was drawn using Indian ink and then brushed with a white Indian ink wash.
Isaiah 45:18 “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord; and there is none else.”
For clarification sake, this piece is not to say that I believe man is destroying the earth to where it will not exist, or humans will become extinct.
I do believe that we are to care for the earth and everything in it. But ultimately God is in control. As it says in Isaiah 45:18, the world was made to be inhabited. It was made to be used and it is able to sustain us.
This artwork is not meant as a support of the humanistic idea of an earth that would be better off without man.
We should take care of the earth, so that future generations can enjoy what we enjoy or have even better than what we have now.
But whatever destruction we, as man, bring to this planet it will not bring the end. God will destroy the earth at the end of time. Rev 21:1, I Thes 5:1-10
circa 1993
watercolor
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isaiah 43:2
Right to Life Poster
Graphic Design 2, Spring 2008
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:15
Twins in the Womb
Drawing 2, Spring 2005
pastels
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1:5
Starting Line | Best of Me
Typography, Fall 2008
I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go
Song of Solomon 3:4b
Studio Research in Drawing 2, Fall 2019
pastels
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James 4:14
Studio Research in Drawing 2, Fall 2019
pastels
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:18
Cloud Studies
Painting 3
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil
Genesis 1:3-4
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24
Inspried by Jonathan Constable
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil
Revelation 1:7-8
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil
Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil
Lamentations 3:21-23
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
near Berchtesgaden (2013)
Painting 3, Fall 2019
oil
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
Psalm 42:7 (NASB)
Studio Research in 2-D Media 1, Spring 2020
acrylic, iridescent medium added
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
Psalm 147:4
Where the Ocean Meets the Sky
Studio Research in 2-D Media 1, Spring 2020
acrylic
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Psalm 8:8
“In [Matthew Murray’s] Bible studies, the words of Psalm 8 stuck in his mind: ‘ … whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas’. Maury determined that if God’s Word said there were ‘paths’ in the seas, then there must be paths. So, he set out to find them (https://answersingenesis.org/creation-scientists/profiles/matthew-maurys-search-for-the-secret-of-the-seas/).”
Studio Research in 2-D Media 1, Spring 2020
acrylic, iridescent medium added
Isaiah 40:28-29
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Studio Research in 2-D Media 1, Spring 2020
acrylic, iridescent & gloss mediums added
Psalm 115
1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
3 Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
8 Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
9 O Israel, trust in the LORD!
He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD!
He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD!
He is their help and their shield.
12 The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
13 he will bless those who fear the LORD,
both the small and the great.
14 May the LORD give you increase,
you and your children!
15 May you be blessed by the LORD,
who made heaven and earth!
16 The heavens are the LORD’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to the children of man.
17 The dead do not praise the LORD,
nor do any who go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD
from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise the LORD!
April 2013
acrylic
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22
