A portrait of Angela Davis, depicting flowers on and around her. 

The places I've been

A painting of two elephants nuzzling together. The picture is a close up, side view of the pair: one eye of each can be see. The tusk of the one of the left is also visible along with part of the ear of the elephant on the right. Small bits of blue background appear in the bottom corners. 

Pair of Phants

Evening light is shining on a small yellow building and casting a warm glow. It is surrounded with various tall trees and evergreens. Purple and pink hues of the evening light, blues and greens of the trees, contrast with the warm yellows of the building.  This backyard scene gives the impression of a cabin in the woods; peaceful, serene and warm

evening light

A painting of a sun looking over the world it brings life to.

Light of life

A painting of a stary night sky with a full moon and a large tree focal point with different shades of green grass with violets and roses blooming with small black fairies flying through the night 

The magical night in bloom 

A painting of the first blooms of spring Forsythia, spring sunlight bright yellow blooms. Light and shadow on grass. Plein air painting.

Forsythia

Yellow Bell

A painting of my grandson, Gaven, making the most of the hockey season, taking to the ice on Crystal Lake.

Reflections:  Lake Hockey

A painting of a vintage toy horse and cowgirl against a red bandana background. 

Queen of the West

Three crabapple trees blooming in the spring time.

Crabapples

Untitled

A close up of peony in whites, violets, blues and yellows

Square Peony

Oil painting of a river through a golden marsh, reflecting the bright clouds in the sky

To the sky

The image is of a stylized horse as seen from the side. Elements of cartooning and other, more fine-arts oriented examples of abstraction variously present a human-like beast which appears to be at once comical and somehow unwell.

Fetters (I): Horse'

A painting of a blue and green concentric ellipse floating in a red field over a white and gold earth like fragment.

Becoming

A painting of brilliant yellow and orange trees growing from purple earth.

Imagining Autumn

A bold smattering of teal, magenta, orange, yellow colors on all different layers giving the painting lots of depth and texture with bold yellow and white splattering as the top layer.  Painted to invoke a happy feeling for the viewer.

Riding a Bike

Fungi grows on trees in colorful arcs of orange, sienna and blue. These arcs of living fungus are shown with dead leaves because part of their benefit is in how they decompose and create new life. Besides being beautiful, they are living organisms that support the ecosystem of the entire planet.   

Fungus Form 1

A watercolor image of Jay Cooke State Park with a reddish-orange cliffside with pine trees and a blue sky.

Jay Cooke State Park

An abstract painting of a melting iceberg surrounded by water and land. You can begin to see its hidden mass below the surface.

Pine Island

The four main subjects of the painting, a Monarch butterfly, a fish, a flower and a cedar waxwing each occupy about a quarter of the design, coming together and supporting each other at the center.

Interconnected V: The Arb

A painting of one of the experience rooms in the MIA, Up All Night night in the 1700s. The blue light coming from the window glows across the golden embellished walls and wood floors. 

Up All Night in the 1700s Study 

A painting of the two sides of the artist — one side black/one side white — against a deep red background. The white side is holding a snake/the black side is holding a sword. The figure processes wings engraved with symbols. 

The Androgynous Kingdom

Raw Onion

A painting of a woman meditating, sitting in lotus position, surrounded by atmospheric abstract space that fades from light blue (at the top) to dark blue (at the bottom), alluding to sky and water. Layered into the blue negative space are words and phrases about the state of our planet and society, combated with mantras and healing words.

Padmasana (Lotus)

A very small ink and watercolor drawing of colorful flowers in a tall vase.

Tiny flowers

A painting of a house in a monochrome ultra marine blue, the house is painted head on and at a distance so that the whole house can be viewed, a branch of a tree emerges at the top left corner.

Primary Places (no.1 Home)

Abstract filled with bold colors - primarily orange, blue, green  - in flowing circles and organic forms. 

A collage of vintage images including ornate title page from a book about flowers, a crown at the top of the image, and a colorized image of a peacock all encased in wax with tints and hues of golds and blue-greens.

Peacock Royalty

A painting of a woman with orange sunglasses in the bright sunshine. She is raising the glasses to look at the viewer.

The places I've been, 2020

Mary Ghebremeskal