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oil on panel, 8×10 inches

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oil on panel, 8×8 inches

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oil on panel, 8×10 inches

We had a faculty show at the beginning of this year at the Westmont College Reynolds Gallery, and I had grand visions of a large body of work that was going to be displayed for my part of the exhibit. But as Mark Twain said, life is what happens while you’re making other plans. I was set back tremendously in all of my artistic output from September–December of ‘07 as we were doing some “light” remodeling on our house that turned into a nightmare, and left me without a studio to work in for months. Add to this the fact that I got hit with some of the worst flu I’ve ever had during the Christmas holiday, and I was left with very little time to pull together work for this gallery show. So, it was time to be pragmatic and figure out a series that I could execute quickly, and so I decided to simply do some fruit still-lifes. I was inspired partly by the amazing fabric paintings of Daniel Adel, and wanted to try my hand at painting detailed folds. When you get right down to it, the fruit was there basically to add color to the true subject of each piece—the folds.

Posted above are three from the series. All are oil on cradled masonite panels, which is my new favorite surface to work on.

Update: I just re-uploaded all three images, after noticing that they had turned completely acidic upon my previous upload. Hopefully the colors will be more true to life this time around.