
Nature Morte
“Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing ones sensations.” Paul Cezanne
Still life, aka nature morte, is the tradition of painting inanimate objects that delight the eye. Still lives may be a celebration of the pleasures of life such as food and wine or a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures. The genre of memento mori from the Latin “remember you must die” often contain dead flora, corpses of fauna and the presence of pest that remind us of the passage of time and the brevity of life.
These works hover between memento mori and the Proustian Moment, a vivid recollection of past events through sensory stimulation. The objects which we might fail to notice day to day in these works conjure up the unconscious memory of a unique experience, time, or place.

Marcel aka Temps Retrouvé
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2024

Twinkies
16" x 16", Oil on Canvas, 2024

Still Life with Raspberries and Hornets
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2024

Tropic of Cancer
22" x 28", Oil on Canvas, 2024

Pansies in Basket
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2024

Memoriam
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2022

Into White
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2024

Veronica
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2024

In Tuscany
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2023

Pansies
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2023

Inisherkin, Cork
18" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2023

Atlantic Elegy
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2023

Sacred Emily
20” x 20”, Oil on Canvas, 2023

Still Life with Ranunculus
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2023

October Still Life
30” x 30”, Oil on Canvas, 2021

Sunflower
24” x 18”, Oil on Panel, 2020

Poire William and Merengues
16" x 16", Oil on Canvas, 2021

Sunflowers and Tarot Card
24" x 18", Oil on Panel, 2021

Meringues
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2019

Ukrainian Elegy
20" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022

Cezanne Reverie
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022

Still Life with Thoughts on Morandi
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022

Poire William and Camembert
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022

Composition in Yellow and Green
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022

Poire William and Garlic
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022

Remembering Positano
16" x 20", Oil on Panel, 2020
Private Collection

Hostess Snowballs and Astier De Villette
16" x 16", Oil on Canvas, 2021
Private Collection

Poire Williams and Macarons
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022

Remington
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2022
Private Collection

Lillies
20" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2019

Composition in Red and Gray
24” x 24”, Oil on Canvas, 2020

Poire William with Madeleines and Hydrangeas
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2022
Private Collection

Still Life for a Fragile Republic - November 2016 2
24" x 18", Oil on Canvas, 2016

Rabbit
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2009

Romeo and Juliet on Matzos
10" x 10", Oil on Canvas, 2017

Selfie with Silver 2
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Private Collection

Slop Sink in the Spring Studio
30" x 40", Oil on Canvas, 2012

Still Life for a Fragile Republic 3
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2016

Sunflowers in Jug
26" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2020

Sunflower and Walnuts
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2017

Allegory to My Father
48" x 72", Oil on Canvas, 2014

Still Life for a Fragile Republic - November 2016
18" x 14", Oil on Canvas, 2016

Selfie with Silver 3
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2016

Selfie with Silver Vanitas
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2016

Spring Studio in September
60" x 48", Oil on Canvas, 2012

Still Life After Proust
22" x 25", Oil on Canvas, 2012
Private Collection

Streit's Matzos
10.5" x 14", Oil on Canvas, 2016
Private Collection

Daffodils
16" x 16", Oil on Panel, 2019
Private Collection

Buoys in Shuttered Light
30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2002
Private Collection

House of Cards 6
24" x 24", Oil on Canvas, 2005
Private Collection

Sunflowers and Windmill Cookies
28" x 22", Oil on Panel, 2020

Studio in the Spring
20" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2012
Private Collection



















































