COLLECTIONS

Three recent projects each resulted in a major acquisition of paintings by these private collectors and institutions.

Cowall Residence

In accord with both the waterfront setting of their new residence and their enthusiasm for scuba diving, Dr. David and Cindy Cowall of Nanticoke, MD have a suite of five paintings born of water and the forces of nature.

The shifting forms and changing light of the sea are echoed in the liquid colors pulled across the canvas by gravity itself. The shaped grounds of the Obelisk paintings reflect the high, tapered space of the architectural setting.

Coastal Hospice

The 25 paintings and works on paper commissioned in 2004 for Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury, MD are organized into two groups:

The Bellavance Suite paintings are acrylic on canvas abstractions, suggesting a window or threshold to another world.

The Morningstar Suite works on paper suggest both the geometry of the window paintings and constellations amidst a sky of rich gouache colors.

National Institutes of Health

A solo exhibition at NIH in 2006 as part of their Clinical Art Program, led to the acquisition of five works for their permanent collection.

The pencil suggests the written word, specifically the central role played by ‘The Word’ in the Biblical creation narrative. The works shown at NIH are from a series of gouache paintings entitled Psalter – an old word for the Bible book of Psalms. As often as not, it is God’s role as creator that the psalmist magnifies through his hymns of praise. It is as hymns of a sort that these pencil paintings not only describe an energetic and encompassing space, but fill that space with the music of creative utterance.