Study for a mural...

This painting was a study for a ceiling that was rejected by the client. I titled it, "The Riddle" - because of the Etruscan roundel in the middle of the composition - Oedipus questioning the sphinx. It was meant as a folly after the Sistine, as if half the ceiling caved in.

Detail: The Descent

Though the photo is rather blurry and the resolution dark, the photo isolates an incident of molestation of a child in a theater. The scene, along with the others in the panel, was later embellished with gold leaf, and a title banner was added from the Abbey Road album. In this case, "I want you (she's so heavy)". The verse, "1-2-3-4 all good children go to heaven" repeats throughout the panel in the margins of the scenes.

Have no fear...

This painting is entitled, "The Dream" - Sorry, I do not have a better photo of it and it is in a private collection. I painted it several years ago. The seraph holds a banner which reads, "Have no fear..." in Spanish.

The Holy Face

I painted this around the time the Passion of the Christ came out. I had been working at the time and felt I had enough of an income, so I decided I didn't need to sell all of my paintings. I gave it away. The person who received it also gave it away. I learned two things from this. First, do not imagine people will appreciate a particular work or even want it. Secondly, people really do have a greater appreciation for an object if it cost them something. (It is a rather grizzly image - the photo doesn't help either.)

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(Acrylic on canvas, with moustache hair and human blood.)

St. Sebastian

St. Sebastian, 1991, Acrylic on canvas. (This was a commission, and the photo is my only documentation of the panel.)

Iconostasis

I painted these panels in 1991 for an eccentric antique dealer who had them mounted on his kitchen cabinet doors.

Iconostasis

Detail of central suite.

Iconostasis

Detail. 1991

Iconostasis

The panels of the Evangelists completes the iconostasis.

Funerary

The Death of Fr. Richard.

Our Lady of Contrition

Icon for a hermitage.