Concerning: 2025 #1, #2, #3, #4

 The 2025 works in Galleries 2025 # 1,2,3, and 4 do not all concern Garden Studies but many of the work do come from that series. Since a number of them are from that subject I have provided this explanation of the workings behind the series. This ongoing series Garden Studies that I've been working on for the last four years is a work in progress.  The subject of a garden has been painted many times by artists. Now that my wife and I own a house with a garden I want to investigate the garden from all possible angles, not just one ideal frozen moment with, for example, flowers in full bloom. What I mean about that is suggesting something more akin to what I consider the full story of a garden. That to me means seeing a garden with one eye on the outside world, in this case the garden, and one eye on the inner world that is suggested to me.  The full story to me includes things such as the physical part, the tools working, digging, getting your hands dirty, coming across inhabitants of the underground life, encountering garden codependent insects, and garden intruders seen or only hinted at with traces or clues, unknown and unexpected plants appearing, flowers, weeds, vines, the nocturnal life, and most importantly the unseen energy of the day and the night guiding and manipulating plants.  I wanted to approach the subject of the garden like a cinematographer, and from an unrestrained attitude and perspective with a number of different suggested inner and outer perspectives (such as an impression of an insects point of view - or a lightening bug at night, a butterfly during the day, etc.,)  sometime focusing in at one point or moment and sometimes multiple perspectives in the same painting, A garden changes day by day and even moment by moment, but the more significant changes happen not in the garden, but in the mind of the viewer and in his perception of the garden. Image- Myself and one of my works from my exhibition at the main campus gallery of University Hospitals at University Circle Cleveland Ohio.