Evening in the Cove Where Love's Fire Burned Bright Wood Print

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"I weep for the twilight when your starlit heat
destroyed the chains of my hungry desperation.
Make me again: what your dream said I was––
a coconut-heavy island on fire with mysteries of you."
--from poem "Tybee Island Love Storm" published in The River of Winged Dreams

"Evening in the Cove Where Love's Fire Burned Bright" started out as an attempt at a natural-styled seascape with a line of flowers in the foreground. The closer I got to what I thought was my goal the more I realized I was actually leaning toward something which combined realistic naturalism with abstraction. I wanted enough form to indicate environmental context but also a strong enough sense of fluidity to evoke essence and atmosphere beyond physical boundaries. Color was important because of the range of emotions and the contrasting elements involved.

Although the above quotation is from a poem in The River of Winged Dreams, the artwork is another potential page for the art-an...

I was born and raised in the southeastern United States, then spent many years, while pursuing my education and serving in the U.S. Air Force, traveling around America and the world. Much of story is told in recent book releases like Greeting Flannery OConnor at the Back Door of My Mind and Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah. Artwork by me is featured on the cover of both books. My last 4 public exhibits were at the Savannah/Hilton Head Airport Art Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, USA, and during a cultural arts event in the historic Lafayette Square in the same city. I am currently completing an artbook project on different challenge which humanity has been facing in the 2020s, with text contributions from writers around the world. My...