Portfolio > Stories Without Words

Obviously, in addition to the decision making and the formal considerations I give my work, most, if not all my paintings, involve layers of information and multiple references in their imagery. While I am not a storyteller and don't aspire to be one through my paintings, I could, certainly, relate at least a dozen different stories about each painting.

Sometimes my paintings are of people I know or have known and sometimes they are of people I've invented. And the images that begin as “inventions”, sometimes mysteriously turn out to be of people I have known as well, family and friends.

Sometimes these paintings involve memories, family stories and true events. Sometimes these paintings are inventions of my imagination, composed of desired memories, tall tales from the family tree or fictitious events. I wouldn't paint them if I didn't mean them.

The Last Time I Saw Charlie Bomas
acrylic & mixed media on paper
40" x 32"
2005
Long Gone Train, Dead Flowers, and Toy House
acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"
2003
Prayers on Portuguese Hill
acrylic on paper
40.125" x 32.125"
2003
Self-Portrait as a Thoughtful Man
acrylic on paper
40" x 26"
2003
Cap with Snakes and Mame on the Roof
oil on canvas
50.5" x 48"
1993
Annie and Harry's Dinner
oil/canvas
65.75" x 52
1989
At the Open Door…I Had to Let the Bass Player Go (Apologies to Mingus)
acrylic mixed media collage on paper
30" x 22.5"
2021
23 Days in a Lifeboat, Head Study #2
acrylic on paper
15" x 13.75"
2015
23 Days in a Lifeboat, Head Study #1
acrylic on paper
15" x 13.75"
2015
The Forgotten Room… She Keeps the Letter He Wrote
acrylic and collage on paper
30.25" x 22.5"
2021
The Backyard Dream
acrylic on canvas
60" x 48"
2016
The Fiddler’s Wife and Her Multiple Deceptions
acrylic and collage on paper
28.5" x 20.5"
2021
A Funny Time of Day
acrylic on canvas
30" x 30"
2018
Man with Bowl
acrylic mixed media collage
24" x 20"
2021
He Stood Like John Near a Table
acrylic and mixed media on paper
29.75" x 22"
2021
He Remembers the Green Dress and the Elephant in the Room
acrylic mixed media collage on paper
29.875" x 22.25"
2021
An Accordion for Albert
acrylic on canvas
45" x 36"
2015
Charlie Bomas and His Promise on the North Shore
acrylic on paper
38.25" x 27.5"
2019
The Heart and the Wreckage
acrylic mixed media collage on paper
30" x 22.5"
2021
Three Men, a Cow, and an Air Balloon
acrylic on canvas
24" x 24"
2018
I Still Hold on To this Broken Boat
acrylic on canvas
42" x 32"
2020
The Drumming the Summer My Mother Died
acrylic/canvas
60" x 36"
2004
The Bird and Fish are Yellowish
oil on canvas
60" x 50"
1992
A Stranger to Himself
acrylic/canvas
60" x 36"
2006
Woman with Wounded Bird
acrylic/paper
40" x 28.5"
2006
Woman in Green
acrylic/paper
40" x 26"
2003
Railway Man
acrylic/mixed media/paper
40" x 26"
2002
Beneath the Awning on Portuguese Hill
acrylic/paper
21.5" x 16.5"
2010
Milkman with Toy Train
acrylic/paper
40" x 26"
2011
Armenian with Boat (In Memory of Bob)
acrylic/mixed media collage/paper
62.5" x 35"
2001