“Blessing Hand 10”, 8x10”, acrylic and oil on cast aqua resin, 2025

“Twosome” 8x10”, acrylic and oil on cast aqua resin, 2024

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“Clutching Leaf and Hands” 16x20” acrylic and oil on cast aqua resin, 2025.

This is another painting on view at the Richmond VA, Main Projects gallery show “Matter and Form”. Working with layers of illusion and material playfulness, I’m hoping to stop a viewer and hold their attention.

“Intertwined Leaves 1” 8x10” acrylic and oil on cast aqua resin, 2025
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On view now at Main Projects in Richmond VA. #art #painting #stilllife #stilllifepainting #leaves

“Blessing Hand” 2025, acrylic and oil on cast Aqua Resin, 8x10”

“Make Like A Tree”
Acrylic on 16 Wood Panels
Each 8”x8”, installation size variable
2025
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This piece, “Make Like A Tree”, is a group of 16 individual painted panels. It is installed in a line through the One River School gallery with accompanying animation looping adjacent in the space.

“Blessing Hand 3”, 8x10”, oil and acrylic on cast aqua resin, 2024

“Blessing Hand 5” 8x10” Oil and Acrylic on Cast Aqua Reain, 2024. #art #painting #hand #figurativepainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #realism #bencowan

“Here And There”, diptych each 8x10”, acrylic and oil on cast aqua resin, 2024.
#art #painting #stilllife #stilllifepainting #trompeloeil #flower #cosmo

“Tearing Up” 16x20”, acrylic and oil on cast aqua resin, 2025.

This is a newly finished painting from my “Paracosm” series. The eye is sampled from “The Descent From The Cross” painting by Rogier Van Der Weyden. It’s engineered to be reversible. #art#painting #contemporaryart#gradient #vanderweyden

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Newly framed and photographed painting “Aura” 24x30”, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024.