A Walk through the World - 18x24 oil on canvas
When we walk down our path, we walk through the world, we walk through life, and we walk one step closer to our end, but we also walk deeper into understanding ourselves and each other.  Each footstep turns the earth beneath our feet, hurling it through space to its own finite destiny.  Others will follow us down this well-trodden path and build on an understanding of the world beyond ours.  May it become ever wiser. 

Ice River Temple of the Shrouded Sun – 20 x 16 oil on canvas
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Racing the Storm - 22 x 28 oil on canvas

Thistle Nocturne - 11" x 17" oil on canvas

Campfire - 16 x 20 oil on canvas

Morning Waterfall - 16x20 oil on canvas

Cherry Blossoms - 16 x 20 oil on canvas

Today We Sail! - 16x 20 oil on canvas

Orange at Midnight During a Subconscious Storm      16 x 20 oil on canvas
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Warm Whisper – 20 x 30 acrylic on board 
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Space Fabric – 20 x 30 acrylic on board
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Fairy Bubbles – 30 x 40 acrylic on board 
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Fairy Bubbles
 I journeyed once to another star and roamed an exotic planet.
I spied a fairy near a lake that turned bubbles into granite.
From the lake, they slowly rose and floated to the sky
and when they did, they turned to stone right before my eye.
Now when I look into Earth’s sky, it makes me wonder double
and I ask a question of myself,
                                           “Was our moon once a fairy bubble?”

Tomorrow Evening – 16 x 20 oil on canvas
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​Kimaya Waits – 18 x 24 oil on canvas
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Kimaya Waits – 18 x 24 oil on canvas
 
Kimaya stands on a hill over-looking the sea,
hoping to prevail over her melancholy.
Arjun is promised home, but his ship hasn’t shown,
and she now is worried she will be returning alone.
The sea can be cruel and love and life even more,
so there is a chance Arjun will never set foot on the shore.
Kimaya strains her eyes and tries not to cry,
hoping he comes before the sun leaves the sky. 
Is that a sail on the horizon showing its tip,
or is a cloud taking the form of an ethereal ship?
Yes, it’s a ship with its sails flying high.
Arjun will be home to dry the tear in her eye.

Tall Trees – 12 x 24 oil on canvas
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Fabric of Being - 30 x 48 oil on canvas

Melancholy Mollusk - 30 x 40 oil on canvas
I feed at night under an obscured milkmoon dimly lighting my journey through thick green leaves of nourishment.  Thus, I avoid the grasping claws and piercing beaks of birds intent on ending my modest life for a brief meal.  The raccoons still seek me out in the dark with their bristled noses, but so far I have survived their forages. 
            I glide along with my eyes highup on stalks ever searching here and there for danger, while I consume a lettuce leaf engulfing a head that could keep me sustained for an entire year.  Nevertheless, I discreetly move on to other plants, keeping to my solitude, my melancholy. 
            I have grown my shell to an impressive size, continually adding calcium to its leading edge, one small layer at at time.  My home helps hold my increasing size, and protcts me from assaults that occasionally disrupt my nighttime errands.
            I wrap my foot around the edge of the leaf and slip between it and the lettuce head, so to hide from the world under a green blanket.  Such is my life; simple, quiet, yet sometimes punctuated by harrowing events.  I carefully scrape my radula across the leaf and hope it is quiet enough to evade the sensitive ears of nearby foragers.  Perhaps I will sleep here come the daylight.​

Love Leap 3000 A. D. – 30 x 24   oil on canvas 
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Igneous Rhino and Fear under the Midnight Eye        20 x 16 oil on canvas

​Midwest Memoir – 30 x 48 oil on canvas
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Raven Rocks – 16 x 20 oil on canvas        

Raven Moon – 16 x 20 oil on canvas

The Future Whispers – 36 x 40 oil on canvas
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Prairie Fire Birds

Flameflower – 18 x 24 oil on canvas
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Celestial Man 3020 A.D. – 48 x 24 oil on canvas
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Planet Catcher – 24 x 48 oil on canvas
 Through science, one-by-one, we have intellectually caught each planet of the solar system.  By doing so, we have answered questions, inspired dreams, and indulged in art beyond what most of humanity ever hoped.  

Eon Stone – 16 x 20 oil on canvas  
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Exploring Celestia – 48 x 24 oil on canvas

Twisted Crabapple Tree

Twisted Peach Tree – 20 x 16 oil on canvas

​Twisted Raven Tree – 20 x 16 oil on canvas

Ellsie’s Nightmare – 16 x 20 oil on canvas
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The Man – 16 x 20 oil on canvas
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Iowa Impressions/ Spring Glory -20 x 16   oil on canvas                                                                          

Iowa Impressions/ Saylorville Lake Party Cove   24 x 12 oil on canvas                                                                   
 

Iowa Impressions – Saylorville Reservoir Sand Cliffs        16 x 20 oil on canvas

Iowa Impressions - Ventura Marsh      24 x 48 oil on canvas

Iowa Impressions/Lakeview Park – 16 x 20 oil on canvas​

White Rock     22x28 oil on canvas

Iowa Impressions/Park Paradise  – 40 x 30 oil on canvas

Iowa Impressions/Twilight Tree ISU  – 24x48 oil on canvas

Iowa Impressions: Snow Pony – 24 x 12 oil on canvas

Noon – Rest from Work
(after Millet, after van Gogh) - 22 x 28 oil on canvas
 In 1866 Jean-Francois Millet painted two peasant people resting near a pile of wheat in realism style.  He called it Noonday Rest.  In 1890 Vincent van Gogh essentially traced the painting, reversed the image and painted the scene impressionistically.  He called his Noon – Rest from Work (after Millet).  Now I have painted a similar scene as van Gogh’s, but with the people posing differently.  I call it Noonday Rest (after Millet, after van Gogh).
 
 

Water Nymphs of Foloi Forest - 24 x 48 oil on canvas
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Sumac Forest - 16 x 20 oil on canvas

The Meek Shall Inherit...  -  16x20 oil on canvas

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The Explorer's Captain's Logs

The following paintings were created with no initial relationship to each other, but they have been united in a small story delineating a ship captain's journey.

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