A painting depicting a head-and-shoulders pose of a young person with enormous ears. The background is yellow and at the top of the picture there's a letter-stamped banner inscribed with the words "A Good Listener"

A Good Listener

A still life, including two pots, one is pouring.  The painting is a study in shapes and color.

pouring tea pot

Blue ribbons floating in the breeze -white background

Floating blue ribbons

A canvas painting stretched over a 12 x 12 x 12 hand made cube frame of abstract heavily washy textures centered with a circle or loop painted in a similar abstracted styling. All visible sides, five in total, are painted in the same style, each side in a different color; the front is a stark black and white; one side has some deep turquois added, the top has some deep red added, the bottom has some lime green added, and one side is black and white with accents of some yellow.

Non-Zero-Sum Cubed

A detailed botanical painting of a yellow slipper-orchid flower.

Greater Yellow Lady's-Slipper

A painting of three large rocks off the shore of Lake Superior. The rocks are the focus of the painting with waves splashing against them. The horizon line is near the top of the painting with a clear sky and boat off the in the distance. The water is a mix of light blue with white streaks to show the waves. The two rocks in the front and center are brown and the third rock farthest out is black and dark blue with the light creating shadows on different edges of the rocks.

Lake Superior

A painting of a slightly surreal face, tongue and eyelashes dripping with cream, with red strawberries dotted on the cream and in a ring pattern around the top of the head. The color palette of the face is of pinks and light cream colors.

Strawberries & Cream

A painting of my friend Frank in New York City's Central Park, after a day of art museum visits. The sun is shining and the water in the reservoir behind him is sparkling. It is truly Frank's "Happy Place".

Frank's Happy Place

A little boy peers out of the dark at the colorful, shiny ornaments taken down from the  tree. 

Taking Down the Tree

A painting of a tree line silhouetted against a glowing coral and violet evening sky. The foreground is a softly lit grassy hillside. The use of palette knives and brushes create marks that add a rich textural dimension.   

Going Home

A mandala painted in mainly blues in the center of the yellow canvas. Multicolored painted circles surround the center mandala. 

Healing in Progress 

A blue, black, and white abstract painting resembling a shadowy figure beneath blue water

Ocean Hunter

Still life painting with a mat finish contains 3 vases of many colored flowers arranged together in an arch with the backdrop of large painting with a blue green waterfall with a nude female bather in the wave and a sun- paper is caramel brown.

Still life with a Painting 

An acrylic painting of a person with their morning coffee, contemplating the day. 

Morning Coffee

A lively, colorful impression of spring green and brightly colored flowers.

Spring

Landscape painting of a cliff view overlooking Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin. 

Fond memories

Abstract goose and other shapes
colors blues, yellows, orange, pink and black

Goose on a Fringe

A sketched line-art style uterus and ovaries in pale pinks and blues is outlined in pen. Delicate green vines wrap around the Fallopian tubes, small yellow and orange flowers poke out on the edges of the uterus, and a large focal purple flower rests at the top left.

More Than

"This is a red, green and brown music box." - Maddie Brackin (3 yrs old)

Music Box

The painting is all done in shades of blue. It is of 2 bluebirds resting on branches facing each other surrounded by large whimsical flowers. The birds were painted with the color Prussian Blue.

Prussian Bluebirds

A watercolor of a lobster, It sprawls grey in the middle of the page, laid out as if for dissection. Creeping in from its appendages are hues of red and blue.

Lobster

A painting of a young woman with a pearl earring, and brown eyes and hair, wearing a lavender sweater.

Lauren

Ariel view of sand and surf with dark blue water. 

Tile Series - Surf

Brown feathered raptor's head, orange eye, and blue background.

Alert

A painting of a little brown bat suspended in a blue and black starry sky, with an image of its skull inverted below it.

Myotis lucifugus

A role model to millions 

This is a floral watercolor Painted on a white canvas. The image is of a red and pink poppy, with some detail of the center of the poppy, and a green bud ready to pop open.

Red Poppies

Painting of the music corner of my cozy apartment containing a small library, guitar and keyboard.

Music Corner

A painting of a man's eye close-up, looking at the viewer.

20/20

The bug collector is a painting of a young woman wearing brightly colored patterned summer clothes, portrayed as a paper puppet with joint held together with brads. She has an oversized number 2 pencil for recording details and her head is engulfed in all the plants and bugs she finds. In the center of all the items (such as a pitch plant, sunflower, sea grape leaf, bees, mayflies) there’s a clear jelly jar with a white and red checkered lid with air holes punched through with a screwdriver. 

Bug Collector 

Painting of a face on a black background with a face full of eyes. An otherworldly pink face has eyes all over its face and in its mouth. 

A Good Listener, 2020

Nancy Robinson