Embracing Pears

Category: still lifes
Year: 2015
Dimensions: 8h x 10w (horizontal)
Medium: oil on canvas
Status: for sale

Comment: Adapted from a Bon Apetit recipe for burgundy pears, minus the chocolate sauce. This is about two objects that are joined together while retaining their individual identities, defined not by lines but by shadings of color—I have given similar paintings as a wedding present symbolizing an ideal union

Tags: pear, fruit

Songbird

Category: still lifes, animals
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 12h x 12w (square)
Medium: oil on canvas
Status: for sale

Comment: I took the antique vase (from the Sung dynasty (9-12th century) from an auction advertisement and combined it with a goldfinch and an imagined Deruta ceramic. Hence, songbird.

Tags: vase, bird, finch, napkin

Teapot

Category: still lifes
Year: 2012
Dimensions: 12h x 16w (horizontal)
Medium: oil on canvas
Status: not available (sold or gifted)

Comment: This unplanned arrangement was in the kitchen from the village home in southern France where we stayed. I immediately snapped a picture, adding only one tangerine for balance.

Tags: canteloupe, pear, teapot, blossom, fruit