Vessels

"As with all of my Mindscape ​paintings, each Vessel painting's story evolves over a period of time: starting out as abstractions and loose sketches, then moving through a period of associative or aesthetic motifs, color-schemes, visual textures and relational narratives.
​Each step revealing and exploring the 'Life' in the Still-Life.
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What really excites me about working with this glass-vessel motif
is the opportunity to work with light and color, line and texture,
form and space in such an organic and expressive way.
These Vases, formed by fire for carrying water, are filled with light and space, void and empty, transparent, translucent, reflective, luminous, fragile and impermanent."
​-Roberto Quintana

V-1007: 'Yellow, Orange, Red'  11" x 14" acrylics on canvas

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V1-0995: 'Blue Sky Trilogy'  11" x 14" acrylics on canvas
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V1-3240: 'Refugees'  9" x 12" acrylics on canvas panel


V1-3241: 'Green Glass at Dusk'  9" x 12" acrylics and enamels on canvas

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V1-3234: 'First Date'  12" x 9" acrylics on canvas panel

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V1-3235: 'Late Night'  12" x 9" acrylics on canvas

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V1-3236: 'A Non-Ordinary Reality'  12" x 9" acrylics and bronze-foil on canvas


V1-3231: 'Patience'  9" x 12" acrylics on canvas panel

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V1-3230: 'The Apprentice"  9" x 12" acrylics on canvas panel

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V1-3233: 'Of Mice and Men'  12" x 9" acrylics and enamels on canvas

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V1-3257: 'The Vigil'  20" x 16" oils on canvas

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V1-3228: 'Matriarch'  12' x 9" acrylics and gouache on canvas panel


V1-3229: 'Hyper-Cube?'  12" x 9" acrylics, watercolor and gouache on canvas panel


V1-3227: 'Missing You'  12" x 9" acrylics and watercolor on canvas panel

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V1-3242: 'Three Sisters'  9" x 12" acrylics on canvas panel

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V1-3246: 'Is It Art?'  9" x 12" acrylics and gouache on canvas

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V1-3254: 'Green, Yellow and Pink'  24" x 18" oils and acrylics on canvas

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V1-3259: 'PinQue'  20" x 16" oils on canvas

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V1-3243: 'Jug Band'  9" x 12"  acrylics on canvas panel

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V1-3244: 'Integrating the Shadow'  9" x 12" acrylics and enamels on canvas panel

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V1-3248: 'Unclear Boundaries'  9" x 12" acrylics, watercolor and enamels on canvas panel


V1-3256: 'Lorenz Attracting'  18" x 24": oils on canvas

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V1-3247: 'Uprizing'  9" x 12" acrylics and enamels on canvas panel

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V1-3249: 'Nothing Personal'  9" x 12" acrylics on canvas

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V1-3253: '3 Amigos'  9" x 12" acrylics on canvas

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V1-3232: 'On the Threshold'  12" x 9" acrylics and copper-foil on canvas panel

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V1-3258: 'Yellow and Green'  20" x 16" oils and acrylics on canvas

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V1-3263: Family Portrait'  8" x 10" acrylics on canvas

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“When you look at (the) natural world, it becomes an icon; it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that’s true. It’s amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science
we find the same thing. It’s exactly so.”
-Joseph Campbell


"Modern physics has confirmed most dramatically one of the basic ideas of Eastern mysticism; that all the concepts we use to
describe nature are limited, that they are not features of reality, as we tend to believe, but creations of the mind;
parts of the map, ​not of the territory."
-Fritjof Capra


 ”Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.” -Dale Chihuly
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