The technique of painting on woven fabrics began with a 'gift' of some old bedsheets from a neighbor who thought I might could use them to wrap up a painting or something. It was just at the time I was considering how to add some interesting texture to a few 24" x 24" panels I had constructed. I tore a white sheet into one-inch strips and experimented with a basketweave over the wood. This concept soon evolved into using canvas, woven and hanging loose without a support other than the top rod to hang it from. The woven canvas is free hanging across the panels, while the thinner cotton fabrics are embedded into the painting as a textured panel. On this page are several examples of my version of woven paintings.
Confrontation acrylic on cotton & board 24" x 24"		Assimilation acrylic on cotton & board 24" x 24"
Dissolution acrylic on cotton & board 24" x 24"	Manifestation acrylic on cotton & board 24" x 24"	Infinite/Infintessence acrylic on cotton & board 24" x 24"
detail of the woven single fabric piece
Nest pas une egg acrylic on cotton & board 32 " x 24"	The Spectator oil on canvas & board 24" x 30"	The Observer - diptych oil on canvas & board 24" x 43" overall
Caribbean II acrylic on canvas & board 21" x 33"	Caribbean II (detail)	Rock: Agate oil on canvas & board 24" x 24" Sold
Oranges acrylic on canvas & board 16" x 20"	Apples acrylic on canvas & board 16" x 16"	Pears acrylic on canvas & board 16" x 20"

What I like so much with the woven canvas is the 3-dimensional look achieved - not only actual dimension, but adding shadows and highlights building illusion as well. After completing the fruit above, I decided to go with a more abstraction and created the bunches of grapes in the Vintage series below. These are small works hanging well in groupings, like so many grapes on a vine. I have also shown them in Christmas exhibitions where that context transformw them into holiday ornaments.

Fire & Water Acrylic on canvas 40" x 55"	Golden Sands Acrylic & gold leaf on canvas 30"x 30"	Golden Sands - detail
Millennium I voyage of Leif Erikkson 1004 AD with portions of the Saga in text Acrylic on canvas 40" x 55"	Millennium I - detail	Aire Acrylic & ink on cotton 36" x 40" Sold
Caribbean I Acrylic on canvas 27" x 42"	Caribbean I - detail	Fire oil on paper 36" x 48" Sold
	To complete these selections, I have occasionally cut digital prints into strips and woven two pictures together. There are different ways to do this...on the left, the same image printed in color and again in monochromatic for this effect. On the right, two different images with similar forms which by weaving blends them into a rather surreal illusion. All are originals, one of a kind
The Place Between woven digital prints 20" x 16" framed $600		One Becomes the Other woven digital prints 20" x 16" framed $600

Vintage 3 Acrylic on cotton & board 16" X 12"	Vintage 5 Acrylic on cotton & board 16" X 12"	Vintage 6 Acrylic on cotton & board 16" X 12"	Vintage 2 Acrylic on cotton & board 16" X 12"
Vintage 1 Acrylic on cotton & board 12" X 16"	Vintage 4 Acrylic on cotton & board 12" X 16"	Vintage 7 Acrylic on cotton & board 12" X 16"	Vintage 8 Acrylic on cotton & board 12" X 16"

The above examples are simply 3-dimensional paintings.

The next level of woven paintings are akin to wall hangings. Loose, woven canvas that are quite eye-catching in every exhibition they are in, and I love them on my walls at home. These are painted on both sides of the canvas with differing patterns of color that add to the fluidity of the work. Each has some dimension from the weaving, about 3" or 4" from the wall.