Nature Morte
“Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing ones sensations.” Paul Cezanne
Still life, aka nature morte, is the tradition of painting inanimate objects that delight the eye. Still lives may be a celebration of the pleasures of life such as food and wine or a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures. The genre of memento mori from the Latin “remember you must die” often contain dead flora, corpses of fauna and the presence of pest that remind us of the passage of time and the brevity of life.
These works hover between memento mori and the Proustian Moment, a vivid recollection of past events through sensory stimulation. The objects which we might fail to notice day to day in these works conjure up the unconscious memory of a unique experience, time, or place.
Memoriam
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2022
In Tuscany
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2023
Pansies
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2023
Inisherkin, Cork
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2023
Atlantic Elegy
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2023
Sacred Emily
20” x 20”, Oil on Canvas, 2023
Still Life with Ranunculus
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2023
October Still Life
30” x 30”, Oil on Canvas, 2021
Sunflower
24” x 18”, Oil on Panel, 2020
Poire William and Merengues
16" x 16", Oil on Canvas, 2021
Sunflowers and Tarot Card
24" x 18", Oil on Panel, 2021
Meringues
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2019
Ukrainian Elegy
20" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022
Cezanne Reverie
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022
Still Life with Thoughts on Morandi
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022
Poire William and Camembert
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022
Composition in Yellow and Green
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022
Poire William and Garlic
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022
Remembering Positano
16" x 20", Oil on Panel, 2020
Private Collection
Hostess Snowballs and Astier De Villette
16" x 16", Oil on Canvas, 2021
Private Collection
Poire Williams and Macarons
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022
Remington
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022
Private Collection
Lillies
20" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2019
Composition in Red and Gray
24” x 24”, Oil on Canvas, 2020
Poire William with Madeleines and Hydrangeas
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022
Private Collection
Still Life for a Fragile Republic - November 2016 2
24" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Rabbit
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2009
Romeo and Juliet on Matzos
10" x 10", Oil on Canvas, 2017
Selfie with Silver 2
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Private Collection
Slop Sink in the Spring Studio
30" x 40", Oil on Canvas, 2012
Still Life for a Fragile Republic 3
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Sunflowers in Jug
26" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2020
Sunflower and Walnuts
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2017
Allegory to My Father
48" x 72", Oil on Canvas, 2014
Still Life for a Fragile Republic - November 2016
18" x 14", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Selfie with Silver 3
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Selfie with Silver Vanitas
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Spring Studio in September
60" x 48", Oil on Canvas, 2012
Still Life After Proust
22" x 25", Oil on Canvas, 2012
Private Collection
Streit's Matzos
10.5" x 14", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Private Collection
Daffodils
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2019
Private Collection
Buoys in Shuttered Light
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2002
Private Collection
House of Cards 6
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2005
Private Collection
Sunflowers and Windmill Cookies
28" x 22", Oil on Panel, 2020
Studio in the Spring
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2012
Private Collection