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COLLAGE
LONELY VOYAGERS BOOK
POSTCARDS
FILMS
ABOUT
CONTACT

‘The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.’ Mitch Hedberg
A recent commission for one of my favorite friends. I don’t think anyone loves tennis as much as he does. A 43”x70” piece framed in a simple white frame with Wimbledon ‘green’ accent that will go in a guest house next to a beautiful clay court.

“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
‘The Awakening’ - A wonderful new 11’x9’ commission for a wonderful friend and Gallery owner - Jill McGaughey at Jillian Mac Fine Art at 3923 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70115. Dina Cintura and her amazing team at New Orleans based company Women Who Wallpaper did the installation and finishing.

“One of the most important days of my life, was when I learned to ride a bicycle.” — Michael Palin, Monty Python, British actor and adventurer.
The ‘Jamison Collage’ - A recent large scale 60”x40” commission for a wonderful client in Connecticut through Jayne Design Studio, NYC. A large number of images were scanned and archival prints were created, then hand cut, reassembled and glued at full scale. The client was huge fan of the Tour de France, notable cyclists from cycling history, classic rock and roll, born in Philadelphia, the game of golf, Chinese symbolism, great wine, Eagle Scouts, cheeseburgers, french fries, same birthday as Thomas Jefferson, Monopoly, finance, a love of trees, both his grandfathers were WW II pilots, etc….. A wonderfully personal and eclectic commission.

NAUTICAL - A recent commission through renowned Interior designer Thomas Jayne at Jayne Design Studio, New York (jaynedesignstudio.com). It is inspired by my original ‘Girafe’ collage made into a 48”x48” oversize hand cut collage using archival prin… — “Time and Tide wait for no man.”– St. Marher, 1225
The ‘Lear Collage’ - A commission through renowned Interior designer Thomas Jayne at Jayne Design Studio, New York (jaynedesignstudio.com). It is inspired by my original ‘Girafe’ collage made into a 48”x48” oversize hand cut collage using archival prints printed on various Hahnemuhle Matte Fine Art papers. The client is based in New York State on Long Island near Gardiner’s Bay on the Atlantic, and wanted an original nautical inspired autobiographical collage piece for their living room, overlooking the water. Nineteenth Century east coast nautical images including schooners, oyster catchers, oversize seagulls, whales and sea debris combined with culinary elements and family ‘moments’ create a unique large scale and personalized collage.

“The spirits of the air live on the smells of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round the gardens, or sits singing in the trees.” - William Blake
A recent mural commission I designed for the New York interior design showroom of English designer Julian Chichester in the New York Design Center along with NYC interior designer Katie Lydon at Katie Lydon Interiors.

“Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice.” - Lewis Carroll.
A recent commission for a wonderful family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A 36x24 collage for the nursery celebrating the arrival of their daughter. Inspired by a rich and fascinating personal family history….

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” - Federico Fellini
A recent commission for a wonderful client in Dallas through Jayne Design Studio, NYC. Inspired by the client’s wish list of Paul Poiret, Capri, Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, New York, London, Amalfi, Lake Como, Chanel, Hermes, the George V hotel in Paris, Art Deco Dallas, Fellini, high fashion, Bardot and Blenheim Palace to name a few. The piece was a combination of oversize archival prints, hand cut and re-assembled along with gold leaf accents throughout and then finished in a clear solid resin on birchwood. Huge thanks to William Cullum and Thomas Jayne at Jayne Design Studio, NYC and Joshua Huval for the excellent resin work.

“For there is a language of flowers. For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ”. From the poem Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart (1722–1771).
A wallpaper comissioned by Katie Lydon Interiors, NYC celebrating Spring for the Housing works ‘Design on a Dime’ show, New York 2022. A really wonderful project and fantastic cause.

Housing works ‘Design on a Dime’ show, New York 2022 - A series of details of the wallpaper design using 17th, 18th and 19th Century classical imagery.

FIN DE FOLIE - A wine label commissioned from a high end importer ‘Shiverick Imports’ in California . Based on an original collage piece ‘The Death of Molière’. ‘Fin de Folie’ translated means ‘End of Madness’. Appropriate for the times. — ”It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world”. - Moliere
FIN DE FOLIE - A wine label commissioned from high end importer ‘Shiverick Imports’ in California . Based on an original collage piece ‘The Death of Molière’. ‘Fin de Folie’ translated means ‘End of Madness’. Appropriate for the times.

SAINTETÉ MURAL - A 74'“x92” wall mural commissioned for the New Orleans production company Fire on the Bayou (firenola.com). Moving into a new vibrant video and music production space they wanted to liven up the communal bathroom. Nothing like a bun… — “Cleanliness is next to godliness”.
SAINTETÉ MURAL - A 74'“x92” wall mural commissioned for the New Orleans production company Fire on the Bayou (firenola.com). Moving into a new vibrant video and music production space they wanted to liven up the communal bathroom. Nothing like a bunch on showering semi-nude Frenchmen on an icy Seine river to do that. Based on my original collage SAINTETÉ the mural was cropped to fit the bathroom wall space.

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