Facing the dark light in flight
This show expresses the visible and the hidden.
It started while I was living in a small fishing village on the northern coast of Iceland during the darkest months of the year. The sun never rose above the horizon and snow was covering the volcanic, rugged, black landscape with frozen waterfalls. The mythology of Norse Myths was alive all around. The first three paintings were painted with the volcanic sand from the beach and to express the longing for the dancing Northern lights and color each painting has hidden within it another image illumined in total darkness. During the last week of my stay I was overtaken by the freedom of the seagulls as they were flying in the air and floating above the cold, gray bay. The pictures of the gulls were painted back in Baltimore. They represent expansion, movement and the joy of colors and sunlight.
