One of several 4' x 5' and 4' x 6' oil paintings created in the 80s in Bryan, Texas, Studio, and Summer-White Studios, Houston. Theme and variation echo across the canvas. Vines have moved from drawing to oil painting, and maps are first introduced. Oil on Canvas, 46” x 60”

A very early painting of warning. As I held my hand up in the middle of the 3,000 square foot group studio, I saw fingers as blue as the sea grow fishtails, and bloom flowers – a warning of the hard, hot, mineral future.  Painted in the '80s in downtown Bryan TX.

Two spiritual poles: the light of the day, and the dark of the night. In the collection of the Psychology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station TX. 46” x 60, oil on canvas, 1980s

This is one of a triptych of three vertical canvases exhibited together at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University. They were painted when my sister Cynthia was being treated for cancer, which she survived then. She is blooming in fire. 60” x 46”, oil on canvas, 1980s.

From the I Thou series of paintings. Two people navigate marriage. This was exhibited at a one-person show in a Houston gallery.

A difficult relationship between two people. oil pastel

The yellow is scratched in with a knife through layers of oil pastel to reveal a ground of yellow oil pastel.  Knives are very useful in this kind of art. Almost all my kitchen knives ended up five miles away in a studio in downtown Bryan, Texas.