The Ovid Paintings 
I'd been making work of a certain kind but was having trouble writing about it until I chanced upon the poetry of Ovid.  Though written in the first century it was strikingly modern sounding and muscular, almost.  His descriptions of people and gods were Shakespearean in their grasp of human nature.  It was how I wanted to paint and the following pieces take their titles from Ovid's work.           

"They Are All Bones and Ashes Now, Those Men You Ask For", 2007, acrylic on canvas, 34"x44"

"They Dug Into Her Vitals", 2006, acrylic on canvas, 34"x44"

"The Hardness That We Have," 2007, acrylic on canvas, 44"x34"

"The World Returns", 2006, acrylic on canvas, 44"x34"

"Battle for the Most Shining Heifer", 2007 X, acrylic on canvas, 44"x34"

 War and Post-Apocalyptic Paintings
In the following pieces I painted out my concerns over the future, the environment and what seems to be our constant war-mongering.

"How to Bomb-Proof Your Baby", 2008 X, acrylic on panel, 20"x24"

"How to Bomb-Proof Your Cat", 2009 X, acrylic on panel, 11x14

"And Then No More", 2003 X, acrylic on panel, 18"x24"

"New American Monument", 2009, acrylic on panel, 18"x24"

"Our Brilliant Plan for War", 2003, oil on canvas, 44"x56"

"A Certain Distance", 2003, oil on canvas, 44"x52"

"The Temptation of War, The Temptation of Innocence", 2002, oil on canvas, 44"x52"

"It Always Ends the Same", 2003, oil on canvas, 52"x36"

"They Begin Again at the Limits of the World", 2002, oil on canvas, 52"x44"

"Journey Without Maps", 2004 X, acrylic on panel, 16"x20"

"And He in His Depthless Self-Satisfaction", 2008-2012 X, acrylic on 3 canvases, each 64"x32"