ALLIGATORS
2021-present
BETES NOIRE, ALLIGATOR PORTRAITS & ALLIGATOR STUDIES
I define my creative action as drawing, whether I'm using paint, carbon or other media. In my work the word 'draw' means not only to place marks on a surface but also to extract, like to draw blood or to draw a breath.
In this series I draw alligators to explore issues of mental health. My anxiety monsters are ambush predators. Always lurking. Stalkers, quiet but lethal, menacing, powerful, with giant teeth. Having spent my life in the deep south they are a familiar beast- alligators.
Bete Noire 3
24x37 ink and watercolor crayon on panel
Bete Noire 5
24x49 ink and watercolor crayon on panel
Bete Noire 2
24x49 ink and watercolor crayon on panel
Bete Noire 4
24x37 ink and watercolor crayon on panel
Bete Noire 1
24x49 ink and watercolor crayon on panel
Bete Noire 6
24x37 ink and watercolor crayon on panel
alligator portrait (Petunia)
14x17 carbon on paper
alligator portrait (Hopey)
14x17 carbon on paper
alligator portrait (Hopey)
14x17 carbon on paper
alligator study
14x17 carbon on paper
alligator study
14x17 carbon on paper
alligator study
14x17 carbon on paper