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This painting is offered framed. My paintings are created using spray paint, including metallic pigments, seen through a very thin, clear panel of PETG polymer. The results have the appearance of copper enamel--but with the spontaneity and scale that painting allows. The final surface is textured, which is sometimes indicated in these digital images as highlights.

My paintings are created using acrylic spray enamel on the obverse side of clear co-polyester panels--PETG. They are "obverse" paintings, rather than "reverse" paintings, in that they are not the product of a backward, formulaic process, but rather the result of a creative "dialogue," action answered by a strategic, intuitive reaction, generated to be viewed through the clear surface. Working from behind is not the equivalent of working in reverse. Using water, static, objects (found or created), and other masks and influences, I determine shapes and textures, building the paintings, color layer by color layer, overlaying textures and hues. I also use sgrafitto and solvents to clear and repaint areas or to manipulate the laying-on of...