I have a friend. I know. Its amazing. Anyway, she sent me a package. And she warned me before it came that I might think she was crazy. Nonsense. I already thought that. ! Anyway. I get this package. padded envelope. And I open it. Look inside and something is looking back at me. Googgly eyes among some pink crocheting something. I can’t tell what it is at this point. I should have been frightened. I pulled it out. This is what I found. He now sits on my art table with the octobunny (who came from the same friend . Ill have to take a pic of the octobunny, who also needs a name. 

p man

By now you might have noticed I have a thing for spirals.



I am fascinated by them in all their forms.



So what does a spiral mean? The definition of a spiral is this :
  Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
Or, more fancy, A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.




Our galaxy is a spiral



The spiral also shows up in nature. Tornadoes, hurricanes, snails, the pattern of sunflower seeds, right down to the shape or our DNA.



Is it any wonder I cant stop painting them? They don’t even have to be round to fascinate me.



These images and more can be found here.

Around the world

mixed media collage on panel
24 x 24

I had trouble with this, as I do with all of them, about what to do with it. I ended up with rocks. I was going to leave it a plain abstract. But in the end felt the rocks would help the storm theme. Not sure I made the right call there. Also new, the rocks are NOT outlined. Not sure how I feel about that either.



here are some close ups….

Winter Strom

acrylic on panel
12 x 12

I finally came up with some names for the new abstracts. The first one I was unsure of but was reluctant to put rocks on. It was so nice on its own. The same for the second. Its just a matter of naming them. I’m so bad with naming things. Usually I just get a bit of lyric of someones conversation on the bus or tv news of possibly a show if I’ve actually got the tv on. Something out of a book. I just open a book and look at the page. This first one was a bit harder but eventually I came up with “Meditations in Green” because it has a lot of greenish tone to it and also because it seems very, I don’t know, buddha-ish to me? Maybe that’s not what I really mean. But it’s as close as I’m going to be able to get.

Meditations in green
Acrylic on panel
16 x 12



And the second one. I’ve decided it’s finished just the way it is. Maybe abstract is my new direction. Although I have not give up on the rocks or the childlike collages. Just adding to them. I like the abstracted backgrounds. So maybe this is not even adding to it. Just stopping before I’ve finished? So here is the second one…..

Dreaming of me

acrylic on 1.5” cradled hardboard
8 x 8