PAINTINGS : works on canvas and vellum

Each river or waterway in works above have their own environmental and/or political issues. And, from a higher universal perspective, each branching flowing waterway can also be seen as botanical or anatomical. These various layers of meaning and concern are in back of mind as I make choices and tease the fluid oils and pigments in my water-focused work.
 

Most oil and acrylic  paintings in the scroll  above are 36 x 36 or larger.  

Four scrolling square works on vellum paper (with thin interior border) are part of  Waterplaces, a collection of 100 small works initially exhibited at Kansas City Design Center in Kansas City, Missouri, as seen in the large photo...and ultimately purchased by The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kansas, for their permanent collection.  Each  Waterplaces image has a corresponding written  page.

The slender "tangled creeks" work on vellum, Wabaunsee Waters III,  is one of a triptych in the collection of KU's School of Business in Lawrence, Kansas, along with the gray and amber oil painting  Prairie Creek River (Konza, McDowell, Kaw).