Assemblages: Wood, stone, oil paint, sand, photographs, natural and manmade objects.

 This project highlights some of my work in helping preserve habitats for Chimney Swifts and Solitary Bees;

Baltimore has one of the biggest Chimney Swift migrations on the East Coast. Here in Hampden we had to fight tooth and nail to ensure the Book Bindery Building on Elm St. was designated Historic thus preserving it's 70ft chimney. This chimney serves as a nightly resting place for thousands of Chimney swifts during their spring and summer migration to South America.      

My work with solitary bees has involved designing and installing numerous solitary bee houses in parks and private gardens in Baltimore along with installing Pollinator/wildlife gardens throughout Maryland that provide food and habitat for bees, butterflies, clearwing moths and other pollinators. In addition to habitat and food for birds.                          

These works are part of the Art on the Trail series of installations  at Lake Roland Park, Baltimore and  Nature Art in the Park work  in Leakin Park, Baltimore (2014 to Present). They include my Pollinator Hexagon series of installations. In addition to other work installed in the US.
https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/art-on-the-waterfront-brings-inspired-outdoor-art-to-south-baltimore/

  Blakeney Point Flint Project #5 was the culmination of 4 previous installations (or sketches) in exactly the same location on Blakeney Point in Norfolk, UK. The installation was a homage to the Neolithic stone circles found throughout the British Iles.
2009 Basaltic Hexagon project; Basalt stones were collected and placed in a hexagonal pattern, each hexagon approx. 3ft in width. The pattern reflects the nature of basalt when emerging from the earth, it often forms large hexagonal layers. The installation was started at low tide, I then worked until high tide started to lap on to the completed hexagons.
2014 The worship of Basalt I and II;  Location directly at the end of runway for Reykjavik airport. A large basalt boulder (approx. 3ft long) lying secluded from the surrounding rocks was selected for the installation. Small basalt stones with kelp attached were selected then dragged across the sand and placed with the stones facing the boulder. The action of dragging the stones across the sand (which had a light dusting of snow on it) left interesting lines on the beach. The installation was performed 2 times on consecutive days (high tide washing away the stones overnight); in part 1 a hexagon was formed around the boulder, in part 2 the shape was an outline of the boulder.

The watercolors presented in this project are all recent ( 2019-2023) with some inspired by my interest in mutation.  My recent work,  as a response to the  Covid 19 pandemic, has produced a series of works inspired by nature but often featuring strange twists or mutations. Some of these drawings and paintings were started after I had a medical procedure to insert a small tube in my body where a large aneurysm had developed.