Conceptual Paintings

These paintings explore familiar people, places, and experiences from perspectives we do not ordinarily consider. They invite viewers to look beyond first impressions, beyond preconceived ideas and expectations.

Woman in a sunlit room

Six gold spheres, floating on a tan background with a red line across about 2/3 of the way down

Bro leading into distant, snow-covered mountains

Bar scene at Cavillo's restaurant in Alamosa Colorado. IBar scene at Cavillo's restaurant in Alamosa Colorado. I Interior bar scene in warm brown and yellow tones with structured perspective, presented as a quiet, thought-provoking figurative painting about social space.

A gold-colored maze on a purple ground with small figures maneuvering rainbow-colored balls through the maze, presented to provoke thought about how one’s path through life is structured, but unknown and the challenges one has navigating the maze of life.

Annie Oakley. Stylized female portrait in beige and blue tones with simplified features and flat color areas, creating a subtle sense of unease and misalignment in a thought-provoking figurative painting.

Bright composition of three happy children on a beach, running towards the ocean with a stylized sun in the sky in yellow white, and blue tones.

Bold composition in orange, blue, and black tones with strong directional movement, forming an energetic and expressive conceptual painting of a surfer on a wave.

Dark landscape or planetary scene in black and red tones with strong contrast, presented as a dramatic and thought-provoking conceptual statement piece of the last days on earth. Two red figures in the foreground..

Conceptual painting of a seated figure shaping a sky and planets with dramatic light and swirling forms, strong contrasts and atmospheric blues, black, and gold.

The ground is a green and yellow circuit board with an aspen forest above forming a conceptual and thought-provoking statement piece about the future of the environment and social control of humanity.

baby embedded in a circuit board. Figurative composition in green and gray tones with structured forms, presented as a disruptive and thought-provoking painting about systems and identity.

A white-gold shaped spiral line up from the brownish red ground into the turquoise sky representing the cycle of life from a Hopi proverb.

Expansive abstract composition in blue and white tones with layered light and depth, forming a surreal and thought-provoking statement painting of creation in progress.

Eve. Central female figure in peach and black tones within a vertical composition, forming a symbolic and surreal statement piece about creation and identity. • SEO title: Birth of Eve – Surreal Symbolic Statement Painting

Two figures, a woman kneeling over a dead man, in orange and blue tones, reminiscent of Mary and Jesus.

Three abstract figures in blue and white tones, forming a conceptual and thought-provoking painting about self-reflection and identity.

An abstract figure in red in the foreground with two others in the distance, on a white-gold background with a sun, forming a conceptual view of identity and once relationship with others.

A figure with a strong gaze seated amid red-orange tone, green s and blue tones and symbols from antiquity, yet it feels slightly off.

Anne Frank. Figurative painting of a young female subject in brown and gray tones with soft modeling and classical composition, forming a symbolic and thought-provoking statement piece.

An abstract landscape of green and blue tones with a road going off to distant mountains that invites, exploration, and discovery of unknown places.

Simplified swirling, thorny figure in blue and black tones set against a minimal background, forming a psychological and emotional painting about anxiety, fear, and uncertainty.